Rethinking inventories in the digital age: the case of the Old Bailey
This paper uses a computational approach to the formal indictments included in the Old Bailey Online for the period 1740 to 1800, to assess the material world of London as seen through a thief’s eyes. Trial reports detailing theft incorporate an implicit inventory of portable objects marked by a s...
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| description | This paper uses a computational approach to the formal indictments included in the Old Bailey Online for the period 1740 to 1800, to assess the material world of London as seen through a thief’s eyes. Trial reports detailing theft incorporate an implicit inventory of portable objects marked by a specific kind of circulatory exchange value enabled by London’s evolving consumer society. By identifying patterns of significance within the Old Bailey corpora of theft trials, this article will extend traditional humanities practices of close reading by adding a form of distant reading facilitated by computational analysis. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-96e884d40338415396c0377e5b168b2a2022-12-21T17:57:05ZengDepartment of Art History, University of BirminghamJournal of Art Historiography2042-47522014-12-011111HHT1Rethinking inventories in the digital age: the case of the Old BaileyAnne Helmreich0Tim Hitchcock1William J. Turkel2Getty FoundationSussexWestern University in CanadaThis paper uses a computational approach to the formal indictments included in the Old Bailey Online for the period 1740 to 1800, to assess the material world of London as seen through a thief’s eyes. Trial reports detailing theft incorporate an implicit inventory of portable objects marked by a specific kind of circulatory exchange value enabled by London’s evolving consumer society. By identifying patterns of significance within the Old Bailey corpora of theft trials, this article will extend traditional humanities practices of close reading by adding a form of distant reading facilitated by computational analysis.https://arthistoriography.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/helmreich_hitchcock_turkel.pdfcomputationdigital humanitiesinventoryLondonOld Baileythefttrial |
| spellingShingle | Anne Helmreich Tim Hitchcock William J. Turkel Rethinking inventories in the digital age: the case of the Old Bailey Journal of Art Historiography computation digital humanities inventory London Old Bailey theft trial |
| title | Rethinking inventories in the digital age: the case of the Old Bailey |
| title_full | Rethinking inventories in the digital age: the case of the Old Bailey |
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| title_short | Rethinking inventories in the digital age: the case of the Old Bailey |
| title_sort | rethinking inventories in the digital age the case of the old bailey |
| topic | computation digital humanities inventory London Old Bailey theft trial |
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