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William Farrell

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  • People vs. things: the Worshipful Company of Weavers and regulation in eighteenth-century London

    Author(s):
    William Farrell
    Date:
    2022
    Subject(s):
    Guilds--Law and legislation, Silk industry, England--London, Eighteenth century, Mercantile system, Livery companies, Guilds
    Item Type:
    Conference paper
    Tag(s):
    Weaver's Company

  • Review of Tim Hitchcock and Robert Shoemaker, London Lives: Poverty, Crime and the Making of a Modern City, 1690–1800

    Author(s):
    William Farrell
    Date:
    2019
    Group(s):
    Digital Humanists
    Subject(s):
    England--London, Nineteenth century, Social history, Great Britain, Crime, Punishment, Local government
    Item Type:
    Book review
    Tag(s):
    Poor law, welfare, 18th-century London, 18th-century Britain, Digital history, Crime and punishment

  • Our man in the archive

    Author(s):
    William Farrell
    Date:
    2015
    Subject(s):
    Archives, Television, Documentary films--Production and direction, Documentary films--Authorship, History of contemporary events
    Item Type:
    Blog Post
    Tag(s):
    Adam Curtis, bbc, television archives, history on television, 20th century history, Documentary filmmaking, Contemporary history

  • What's in the local history collections?

    Author(s):
    William Farrell
    Date:
    2019
    Subject(s):
    Local history, Libraries, Research libraries
    Item Type:
    Blog Post
    Tag(s):
    local history collections, Primary sources, poll books, University of Leicester

  • Could library book budgets be used to fund open access monographs?

    Author(s):
    William Farrell
    Date:
    2019
    Subject(s):
    Academic libraries, Open access publishing
    Item Type:
    Blog Post
    Tag(s):
    monographs, academic books, library budgets, Open-access publishing, Open access

  • Rethinking the Welfare State: Interview with Tim Hitchcock

    Editor(s):
    William Farrell
    Date:
    2011
    Subject(s):
    Social history, England--London, Nineteenth century, Great Britain
    Item Type:
    Interview
    Tag(s):
    Old Bailey Online, London Lives, welfare, Poverty, The state, 18th-century London, 18th-century Britain, Digital history

  • Review of Consumption and Gender in the Early Seventeenth-Century Household: The World of Alice Le Strange

    Author(s):
    William Farrell
    Date:
    2012
    Subject(s):
    Great Britain, History, Seventeenth century, Sixteenth century, Consumption (Economics), Material culture
    Item Type:
    Review
    Tag(s):
    Household, 17th-century British history, Early modern history, Consumption, Gender

  • Drawing local history

    Author(s):
    William Farrell
    Date:
    2017
    Subject(s):
    Local history, Methodology, Drawing
    Item Type:
    Blog Post
    Tag(s):
    history of history, Humanities PhD

  • The first Leicester thesis in English Local History

    Author(s):
    William Farrell
    Date:
    2017
    Subject(s):
    Local history, Education, History, Historiography
    Item Type:
    Blog Post
    Tag(s):
    Centre for English Local History, Univeristy of Leicester, history of history, history of higher education, Humanities PhD, History of education

  • Discovering Peterloo in Special Collections

    Author(s):
    William Farrell
    Date:
    2018
    Subject(s):
    Radicalism, History, Publishers and publishing, Great Britain, Nineteenth century
    Item Type:
    Blog Post
    Tag(s):
    Peterloo, Henry Hunt, William Hone, Thomas Dolby, History of radicalism, Publishing history, 19th-century British history

  • Open access for local studies?

    Author(s):
    William Farrell
    Date:
    2017
    Subject(s):
    Local history, Open access publishing, Research libraries
    Item Type:
    Blog Post
    Tag(s):
    theses, Centre for English Local History, Univeristy of Leicester, Open access, Open-access publishing, Omeka

  • Gavin Stamp in the David Wilson Library

    Author(s):
    William Farrell
    Date:
    2018
    Subject(s):
    Architectural criticism, Architecture, History, Research libraries, Transportation, Local history
    Item Type:
    Blog Post
    Tag(s):
    Gavin Stamp, University of Leicester, Architectural history, Transport history

  • Introducing Humanities Commons

    Author(s):
    William Farrell
    Date:
    2017
    Group(s):
    HC Workshops & Advocacy
    Subject(s):
    Open access publishing, Institutional repositories
    Item Type:
    Presentation
    Tag(s):
    Open access, Repositories, Scholarly communication

  • The silk interest and the fiscal-military state

    Author(s):
    William Farrell
    Date:
    2016
    Item Type:
    Book chapter
    Tag(s):
    Early modern studies

  • Smuggling Silks into Eighteenth-Century Britain: Geography, Perpetrators, and Consumers

    Author(s):
    William Farrell
    Date:
    2016
    Item Type:
    Article

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