The London and Middlesex Hearth Tax: an analysis of the status and wealth of neighbourhoods and households on the eve of the Great Fire
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Grant Holder:
Dr Matthew Davies
This project will lead to the publication of the 1666 Hearth Tax returns for the City of London and Middlesex - the largest and most complex set of hearth tax returns to survive from Restoration England. Data from the returns will be delivered online via British History Online, while a two-volume hard-copy edition will include a series of historical essays drawing on an analysis of the returns, as well as a critical edition of the text itself. These essays will examine the links between wealth and poverty, the built environment, urban topography, personal status, occupation and demography in relation to the City of London and its suburbs north of the Thames in the later Stuart age. Another strand of the project will involve the creation of a GIS to display and interrogate the information from the returns via maps of the City of London and its suburbs.
| Project start date: 2007-04 | Project end date: 2010-09 |
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Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)
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Data from the 1666 Hearth Tax returns will be delivered online via British History Online.
Access to digital resource:
Open Access
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| Principal staff member: | Dr Andrew Wareham |
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| Author(s) of record | Matthew Davies |
| Title | The London and Middlesex Hearth Tax: an analysis of the status and wealth of neighbourhoods and households on the eve of the Great Fire |
| Record created | 2010-04-27 |
| Record updated | 2011-03-25 13:24 |
| URL of record | http://www.arts-humanities.net/node/3695 |
| Citation of record | Matthew Davies: The London and Middlesex Hearth Tax: an analysis of the status and wealth of neighbourhoods and households on the eve of the Great Fire. <http://www.arts-humanities.net/node/3695> created: 2010-04-27, last updated 2011-03-25 13:24 |