Conflict in the eighteenth-century British Empire | data and visualisations

Conflict in the eighteenth-century British Empire

data and visualisations

Conflict in the eighteenth-century British Empire

wikimedia
The riot in Broad Street on 7 June, 1780, engraving by James Heath after a painting by Francis Wheatle, Wikimedia Commons

This repository contains data analyses and visualisations relating to different types of public conflict in the eighteenth-century British Empire. The aim of the comparative presentation of a wide range of events from local food riots to uprisings of transcontinental relevance such as the Jacobite Rebellions is to highlight recurring structural features and to discuss violent opposition in the context of state-formation.

1) Chronological table of events (categorised by impact area)

2) Interactive map of events (British Isles and overseas colonies)

3) Rebellion sermons and religious periodicals

4) Overviews of British and colonial media production

5) Tagged vocabulary based on eighteenth-century publications

6) Narrative structures in selected media genres

All data and visualisations published in this repository were semi-automatically collected using Python and the ZOTERO bibliography management system. The Python scripts used have been published in my Digital History repository. A screen capture of the live performance of my webscraping script for collecting sermon metadata from WorldCat is available on YouTube.

All data in this repository can be shared and re-used under a CC-BY license. Updates and corrections are welcome. Static maps and additional charts based on the data are featured in my upcoming book Uprisings in Eighteenth-Century Britain: Mediation and Transformation of Political Culture, published by Bloomsbury Academic.

CONTACT