The Early Modern Commons

The Power of Petitioning in Seventeenth-Century England

Recent Posts

Now Online: Metadata for 2,847 petitions and nearly 10,000 petitioners, 1573-1799

30 August 2022

After publishing the full transcriptions of about 2,500 petitions and supplications on British History Online, we got a bit distracted with various other things. But we are now pleased...

Petitioners and supporters: A closer look at the people behind petitions

19 April 2022

This new post from Sharon Howard (@sharon_howard) is cross-posted on her own Exploring the Power of Petitioning site. Quarter Sessions petitioners I’m using data from TPOP’s transcribed...

New work on petitioning by early career researchers

2 August 2021

Over the first half of this year, the Many-Headed Monster – an early modern history blog – published twenty-five short pieces by early career scholars. These addressed topics that...

Petition topics: What were petitions about?

26 July 2021

This new post from Sharon Howard (@sharon_howard) is cross-posted on her own Exploring the Power of Petitioning site. Quarter Sessions petitions topics and themes The Power of Petitioning...