Dataset
Data for 'Scottish Towns and Urban Society in the Enlightenment, c.1745-1820'
- Alternative title:
- Dataset of household goods and furnishings of urban dwellers derived from inventories drawn up at death of subjects.
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Authors/Creators
Contributors
+ Whatley, C
Department:
University of Dundee
Role:
Contributor
+ Usher, R
Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
HUMS
Department:
History Faculty
Role:
Researcher
Funding
Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- University of Oxford
- Publication date:
- 2016
- Spatial coverage:
- Scotland
- Temporal coverage:
- 1745 - 1820
- Data collected:
- 2007 - 2011
Item Description
- Language:
- English
- Subjects:
- Documentation:
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The dataset comprises transcripts of inventories of urban dwellers mostly from commissary court records – Registers of Testaments, Registers of Inventories and Settlements, but also several other sources, including, in the case of Dundee, a rare survival of Judicial Inventories of Minors’ Estates, records from Court of Session Sequestrations, and several chance surviving inventories from local and regional archives. Survival of this material is extremely uneven, both in respect of place and o... Expand documentation
- UUID:
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uuid:6c2953c4-7aad-4e1c-909c-b52f7275bafb
- Deposit date:
- 2016-10-27
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- Copyright date:
- 2016
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