image: Plebeian Lives and the Making of Modern London, 1690-1800

Plebeian Lives and the Making of Modern London, 1690-1800 aims to create a digital archive of manuscript and printed sources concerning the lives of ordinary people in eighteenth-century London, focusing on poor relief, criminal justice, and medical care.

Fig 1. William Hogarth, 'Arrested for Debt', Plate IV, The Rake's Progress, (1735), reproduced courtesy of Tim Hitchcock