The London and Middlesex Hearth Tax of 1666
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Birkbeck College
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- M Davies
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- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- British Records Society
- ISBN
- 9780901505576
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2014
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- London and Middlesex 1666 Hearth Tax and the complementary online database on British History Online are the main outputs of an AHRC-funded project co-directed by Davies when he was director of the Centre for Metropolitan History (CMH) at the Institute of Historical Research. He co-edited the output with the other investigators Vanessa Harding (Birkbeck), Andrew Wareham (PI, director of the Centre for Hearth Tax Research at Roehampton) and others. Davies directed the underpinning research that took place at the CMH, leading a team which completed and checked the transcriptions of the 1666 Hearth Tax returns, comprising 60,000 records for individuals in 200 parishes and places. They used their expertise to develop a new relational database used to generate both the print and online versions of the returns, and then to create a MySQL database which is hosted on the Hearth Tax Online website. The database enabled the subsequent statistical and spatial analysis of the data undertaken by Davies and his CMH team, and by consultants working with Roehampton, and the addressing of research questions based on the data. This work is explained in Davies’ chapter. The output comprises a full annotated transcript, with critical apparatus, and analysis of the 1666 Hearth Tax returns, as well as contextual and analytical essays by a range of contributors. These were initiated through an end of project conference on ‘Restoration London’, which Davies and CMH hosted and co-organised, and he then shared equally in the editorial work on the volumes, including the choice of authors, reviewing and editing all contributions, working with the other editors and the British Record Society. We are asking for Davies’ individual chapter to be assessed alongside his substantial contribution to the research, organisation, and editorial work that saw this output through to publication.
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