159 research outputs found
The Black Londoner Experience: Exploring Black Life through Records of the Court, 1720-1840
No full textBlack Londoners have lived in the city for centuries. This collection brings 10 Black London lives together in an accessible volume to share the diversity of their experiences in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries with new readers.
Drawing on the records of the Old Bailey criminal courthouse, these ten carefully selected trials have been chosen to show some of the breadth of Black experience in London during the age of enslavement (c. 1720-1840). The volume includes Black victims, witnesses, and defendants; men, women, and children; sailors, servants, and entertainers; locals, immigrants, and visitors. Some were treated well by the justice system, and others were met with cruelty. Each had their own experience.
While the volume contains details of crime and conflict, crime is not the sole focus. The sources also give us glimpses into the daily lives of these Black individuals as they interacted with the city and its inhabitants. We learn where these Black people spent their time, with whom, doing what, and sometimes even what they had in their pockets.
Each of the ten cases has been accessibly formatted for classroom use or personal study, and features illustrations by Manon Wright. The sources are arranged like plays, making them easy to read aloud as a means of better understanding the theatre of the courtroom and the power dynamics at play. Dr Crymble offers notes and reflections on tricky or foreign concepts in each case, as well as issues that he has noted through experience that students often misinterpret by making modern assumptions about the past.
John Humphreys, 1727
John Cross, 1749
Elizabeth Gift, 1755
Esther Allingham, 1782
John Thomas, 1786
James Wallis, 1801
Dolby Jackson, 1808
Thomas Johnson, 1818
'The Busker' 1831
Louis James Grant, 1840
For serious scholars of Black experience in 18th/19th century London criminal records, the author also recommends the following works:
Tim Hitchcock, Robert Shoemaker, Clive Emsley, Sharon Howard, Jamie McLaughlin, et al, the Old Bailey Proceedings Online, 1674-1913 (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8, 2018.
Adam Crymble and Emma Azid, 'Black Lives, British Justice: Black People in London Criminal Justice Records, 1720-1841' Journal of Slavery and Data Preservation vol. 2, no 2. (2021): 1-11.
Kathleen Chater. Untold Histories: Black People in England and Wales during the Period of the British Slave Trade, c. 1660-1807 (Manchester, 2011).
Norma Myers, Reconstructing the Black Past (Frank Cass, 1996).
Marika Sherwood. ‘Blacks in the Gordon Riots’, History Today, vol. 47 (1997), 24-28
Historically Irish Surnames Dataset
No full text<p>This dataset provides a list of surnames that are reliably Irish and that can be used for identifying textual references to Irish individuals in the London area and surrounding countryside within striking distance of the capital. This classification of the Irish necessarily includes the Irish-born and their descendants. The dataset has been validated for use on records up to the middle of the nineteenth century, and should only be used in cases in which a few mis-classifications of individuals would not undermine the results of the work, such as large-scale analyses. These data were created through an analysis of the 1841 Census of England and Wales, and validated against the Middlesex Criminal Registers (National Archives HO 26) and the Vagrant Lives Dataset (Crymble, Adam et al. (2014). Vagrant Lives: 14,789 Vagrants Processed by Middlesex County, 1777-1786. Zenodo. 10.5281/zenodo.13103). The sample was derived from the records of the Hundred of Ossulstone, which included much of rural and urban Middlesex, excluding the City of London and Westminster. The analysis was based upon a study of 278,949 adult males. Full details of the methodology for how this dataset was created can be found in the following article, and anyone intending to use this dataset for scholarly research is strongly encouraged to read it so that they understand the strengths and limits of this resource:</p>
<p> Adam Crymble, 'A Comparative Approach to Identifying the Irish in Long Eighteenth Century London', _Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History_, vol. 48, no. 3 (2015): 141-152.</p>
<p>The data here provided includes all 283 names listed in Appendix I of the above paper, but also an additional 209 spelling variations of those root surnames, for a total of 492 names.</p>Anyone publishing academically or commercially based on research or work conducted with this dataset in whole or in part is asked to credit the author with the following citation and an appropriate URL:
Adam Crymble, 'Historically Irish Surnames Dataset', _Zenodo_ (2015), DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20985
Technology and the Historian
No full textHistorians have seen their field transformed by the digital age. Research agendas, teaching and learning, scholarly communication, the nature of the archive—all have undergone a sea change that in and of itself constitutes a fascinating digital history. Yet technology's role in the field's development remains a glaring blind spot among digital scholars.
Adam Crymble mines private and web archives, social media, and oral histories to show how technology and historians have come together. Using case studies, Crymble merges histories and philosophies of the field, separating issues relevant to historians from activities in the broader digital humanities movement. Key themes include the origin myths of digital historical research; a history of mass digitization of sources; how technology influenced changes in the curriculum; a portrait of the self-learning system that trains historians and the problems with that system; how blogs became a part of outreach and academic writing; and a roadmap for the continuing study of history in the digital era
Review of Adam Crymble: Technology and the Historian. Transformations in the Digital Age
No full textIs Creative Commons Flexible Enough for Historians?
No full textCrymble, Adam. Thoughts on Public & Digital History. [Weblog.] Is Creative Commons Flexible Enough for Historians? Artigo de autoria de Adam Crymble onde foca as características do creative commons (versão em inglês e em português) e questiona as várias licenças apontando as fragilidades
Vagrant Lives: 14,789 Vagrants Processed by Middlesex County, 1777-1786 (version 1.1)
No full text<p><em>This dataset should be used instead of the earlier version (https://zenodo.org/record/13103).</em></p>
<p>This updated dataset makes accessible the uniquely comprehensive records of vagrant removal from, through, and back to Middlesex, encompassing the details of some 14,789 men and women removed (either forcibly or voluntarily) as undesirables between 1777 and 1786. In includes people ejected from London as vagrants, and those sent back to London from counties beyond. Significant background material is available on the 'London Lives' website, which provides additional context for these records. The authors also recommend the following article:</p>
<p> Tim Hitchcock, Adam Crymble, and Louise Falcini, ‘Loose, Idle and Disorderly: Vagrant Removal in Late Eighteenth-Century Middlesex’, _Social History_.</p>
<p>Each record includes details on the name of the vagrant, his or her parish of legal settlement, where they were picked up by the vagrant contractor, where they were dropped off, as well as the name of the magistrate who had proclaimed them a vagrant. Each entry is georeferenced, to make it possible to follow the journeys of thousands of failed migrants and temporary Londoners back to their place of origin in the late eighteenth century.</p>
<p>Each entry has 29 columns of data, all of which are described in the READ ME file.</p>
<p>The original records were created by Henry Adams, the vagrant contractor of Middlesex who had - as had his father before him - conveyed vagrants from Middlesex gaols to the edge of the county where they would be sent onwards towards their parish of legal settlement. His role also involved picking up vagrants on their way back to Middlesex, expelled from elsewhere, as well as those being shepherded through to counties beyond, as part of the national network of removal. Eight times per year at each session of the Middlesex Bench, Adams submitted lists of vagrants conveyed as proof of his having transported these individuals, after which he would be paid for his services. The dataset contains all 42 surviving lists out of a possible 65.The gaps in the records are unfortunately not evenly spaced throughout the year. We know more, for example, about removal in October than in May.</p>
<p>Spellings have been interpreted and standardized when possible. Georeferences have been added when they could be identified. This dataset was created for 21st century historians, and should not be construed as a true transcription of the original sources. Instead the goal was to use a limited vocabulary and to interpret the entries rather than recreate them verbatim. While this is undesirable for anyone interested in spelling variations of names and place names in the eighteenth century, it is the authors' hope that these interpretations will make it easier to conduct quantitative analysis and studies in historical geography.</p>
<p>This dataset has been published with additional contextual information in the <em>Journal of Open Humanities Data</em>. It can be found at the following location:</p>
<p>Crymble, A, Falcini, L and Hitchcock, T 2015 Vagrant Lives: 14,789 Vagrants Processed by the County of Middlesex, 1777–1786. <em>Journal of Open Humanities Data</em> 1: e1, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/johd.1</p>
The Programming Historian - Print Edition
No full textThe Programming Historian (http://programminghistorian.org) offers novice-friendly, peer-reviewed tutorials that help humanists learn a wide range of digital tools, techniques, and workflows to facilitate their research.
This PDF version of the project is a snapshot of all published lessons as they appeared in February 2016. It contains 48 tutorials introducing topics ranging from:
setting up (5 lessons)
acquiring data (7 lessons)
transforming data (17 lessons)
analyzing data (6 lessons)
presenting history (10 lessons)
sustaining data (3 lessons)
All content is licensed under a creative commons license. We encourage you to use, distribute, and print out lessons (or the whole book) as it suits you. Go forth and learn!
Author List:
Amanda Morton, Spencer Roberts, James Baker, Sarah Simpkin, Dennis Tenen, Grant Wythoff, Ian Milligan, Seth van Hooland, Ruben Verborgh, Max De Wilde, Doug Knox, Laura Turner O'Hara, Seth Bernstein, Jon Crump, Adam Crymble, Heather Froehlich, Vilja Hulden, Shawn Grahan, Scott Weingart, Fred Gibbs, Matthew Lincoln, Jim Clifford, Josh MacFadyen, Daniel Macfarlane, Marten Düring, Miriam Posner, Caleb McDaniel, Kellen Kurschinski, Jeri Wieringa, William J. Turkel
An Analysis of Twitter and Facebook Use by the Archival Community
No full textThis paper discusses how the archival community is using social networking services such as Twitter and Facebook as outreach tools. The study analyzes the usage patterns of 195 individual and institutional users over a thirty-two-day period during the summer of 2009. By focusing on the 2,926 outbound links posted to the services during the period, the author shows that use is dramatically different between the three test groups: archival organizations using Facebook, archival organizations using Twitter, and archivists using Twitter. The study shows that archival organizations overwhelmingly use the services to promote content they have created themselves, whereas archivists promote information they find useful. In all cases, more frequent posting did not correlate to a larger audience. By examining how others have applied social networking, archivists and archival organizations can determine a social media outreach platform that is suitable to their institutional needs. This study may serve as a starting point toward a greater understanding of outreach in the digital age
Citer les humanités numériques : l’Old Bailey Online est-il un film ou un article scientifique ?
No full textJ’ai récemment écrit un article pour une revue et j’ai dû citer l’Old Bailey Online (OBO). Pas une partie du contenu de l’archive, mais le projet lui-même comme exemple remarquable de travail numérique en sciences humaines. Pour ceux qui ne connaissent pas ce projet, il s’agit d’une base de données contenant la transcription de procès historiques pour une longueur totale de 127 millions de mots massivement balisés en XML. C’est encore un projet phare dans son domaine, selon moi. Mais j’ai eu ..
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