Data derived from 2847 early modern English petitions published by The Power of Petitioning in Seventeenth-Century England (TPOP) project. It includes information about archival sources, dates, petitions’ topics, petitioners and administrative responses.
The full edition of the transcribed petitions is available at British History Online. The dataset may be used independently of the BHO transcribed petitions or as a supplementary resource and finding aid. Please note that the dataset does not include the transcriptions.
Full documentation of the dataset is in the docs/ folder.
The Power of Petitioning project research team consisted of:
- Dr Brodie Waddell (Birkbeck, University of London) - Principal Investigator
- Professor Jason Peacey (University College London) - Co-investigator
- Sharon Howard (Birkbeck) - Research Associate
Further information:
- Project website: https://petitioning.history.ac.uk/
- BHO edition: https://www.british-history.ac.uk/search/series/petitions
Contacts:
- general questions related to the project: b.waddell@bbk.ac.uk
- specific questions about the dataset: sharon.howard@sheffield.ac.uk
1.0, August 2022.
This dataset is shared under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY-SA) licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Suggested format: Brodie Waddell and Sharon Howard. (2022). The Power of Petitioning in Early Modern England, 1573-1799, version 1.0 [dataset].
