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.
- 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...
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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
- Publisher:
- University of Oxford
- Publication date:
- 2016
- Spatial coverage:
- Scotland
- Temporal coverage:
- 1745 - 1820
- Data collected:
- 2007 - 2011
- Language:
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English
- Subjects:
- UUID:
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uuid:6c2953c4-7aad-4e1c-909c-b52f7275bafb
- Deposit date:
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2016-10-27
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- Copyright date:
- 2016
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