Early Modern Notes

I’m available for consultancy, commissions and other collaborations in digital history and digital humanities.

This blog is twenty years old.

In Our Name: Royal Letters, Power and Diplomacy in Scotland and England (1513-1542) Performing and Resisting Power in Early Modern Life Plate 1 from Thomas May, Arbitrary government displayed to the life, 1690.

It’s Day of Digital Humanities 2022.

Update: Early Modern Resources is back up, though not as yet fully restored.

This is the second of a two-part series about the Westminster Coroners’ Inquests data.

My first efforts at interactive data visualisations go back several years to some incredibly frustrating attempts to get the hang of D3.js.

Cleaned-up and slightly extended version of a paper presented at the conference Gender and Violence in the Early Modern World (University of Cambridge, 23 November 2019).

This post for Women’s History Month 2020 explores the Bluestocking Corpus of Elizabeth Montagu’s letters, created by Anni Sairio.

Among its many other wonders, you can find a marvellous run of 16th- and 17th-century CSPD on the Internet Archive.