The Power of Petitioning Data

2022/08/27 by Sharon Howard, Brodie Waddell · 1 voice
Social Sciences · #Judicial and Constitutional Studies

paper · doi:10.5281/zenodo.7027692

openalex publication_date 2022/08/27 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/01

Abstract

First public release of data for 2847 early modern English petitions, including information about archival sources, dates, petition topics, petitioners and administrative responses.

Discussions

• The bad news about my contribution: I wrote the thing *I* wanted to read. The good news: (nearly) all the data I used is completely open access so you can always write your own thing you want to read [bsky, 7 points, 1 comments]

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