Institute of Historical Research 11 Women and the city: investment, banking and the spread of women's financial activity in early eighteenth-century England Anne Laurence (Open University) The tale of the financial revolution in early eighteenth-century England is usually told in terms of the...

Institute of Historical Research, Swati Chattopadhyay

Institute of Historical Research 09 Poor man, sick man, beggarman, thief: plebeian lives and the making of modern London Tim Hitchcock (University of Hertfordshire) Through the digitisation of some 40 million words of manuscript sources about the lives of plebeian Londoners between 1690 and...