I’ve worked on collaborative digital history/humanities projects as a project manager/researcher since 2006. Most recent: Alice Thornton’s Books (Edinburgh) and Beyond Notability (London/Southampton). I do ongoing work on Old Bailey Online (Sheffield).
2025
A digital scholarly edition of all four of Alice Thornton's (1626-1707) autobiographical texts. I worked on modelling and TEI markup of the texts and data linkage.
data linkage
early modern
women
xml
2024
A project exploring the work and lives of women working in archaeology, history and heritage. I was a project researcher, focusing on analysis and visualisation of data about c.900 women recorded in the project wikibase.
data linkage
dataviz
women
2020
An edition of correspondence of David Bailie Warden, a pilot project to explore the role played by transatlantic social networks in science and revolution in the early 19th century. I did TEI markup and data linkage. [site currently unavailable]
correspondence
data linkage
xml
2020
An edition of more than 2500 transcribed petitions from local and national archival collections, part of The Power of Petitioning, a project to examine petitioning in 17th-century English society. I was the project researcher.
early modern
petitions
2020
Small Bills project volunteers transcribed tens of thousands of records of parochial expenditure on poor relief under the Old Poor Law 1700-1834. I carried out data exploration and visualisation, and data cleaning for the final database.
early modern
poor
for
Keele University
2017
A searchable website combining fifty genealogical, biometric and criminal justice datasets to explore the impact of different types of penal punishments on the lives of c.100,000 people sentenced at The Old Bailey 1780-1925. I was project manager and did research on 'voices of authority'.
crime
data linkage
for
DHI, Sheffield
2013
Manuscripts Online enables users to search an enormous body of online primary resources relating to written and early printed culture in medieval Britain. I was project manager.
resource
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DHI, Sheffield
2012
A GIS interface enabling researchers to map and visualize data about eighteenth-century London against Rocque’s 1746 map of London and the first modern OS map. I carried out project management and data cleaning.
crime
mapping
poor
for
DHI, Sheffield
2011
Connected Histories brings together a range of digital resources related to 16th-19th-century Britain with a single federated search that allows sophisticated searching of names, places and dates. I was the project manager.
resource
for
DHI, Sheffield
2010
A searchable edition of primary sources about 18-century London, with a focus on crime, poor relief and poverty. It includes over 240,000 manuscript and printed pages from London archives, supplemented by fifteen additional datasets. I was project manager.
crime
early modern
poor
xml
for
DHI, Sheffield
2008
A digital collection of the Old Bailey Proceedings and Ordinary of Newgate's Accounts. It includes 197,745 trials ("the largest body of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people ever published") and biographies of 2500 people executed at Tyburn. I was project manager/researcher.
crime
xml
for
DHI, Sheffield
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