Knowledge Commons | William Farrell | Activity https://hcommons.org/members/wfarrell/activity/ Activity feed for William Farrell. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 08:42:45 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 2f26a0069d8376773479daf002c4a27c William Farrell's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1943251/ Thu, 05 Feb 2026 14:53:03 -0500 0 673ccbaeb042a4247f400befa6fb7090 William Farrell's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1916225/ Thu, 10 Apr 2025 14:28:51 -0400 0 90d36c4ac9a966a53220a19c7c1af227 William Farrell wrote a new post, Introducing the project, on the site Leicester Stickers: Portrait of a City https://stickers.hcommons.org/?p=1 Fri, 04 Apr 2025 16:08:29 -0400 Last year, I was standing at a bus stop when I saw this sticker on a nearby tree. Being a curious, or possible naïve person, I scanned the QR code and followed the link. I was taken to the website of a […]

]]> b47d2d8fedf9b13a59791f30e4dd9865 William Farrell created the site Leicester Stickers: Portrait of a City https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1915869/ Fri, 04 Apr 2025 16:08:29 -0400 0 b0edf9434ced660462acbefa87ba80cd William Farrell's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1904188/ Wed, 06 Nov 2024 13:31:49 -0500 0 cf93abe4f070275716468599d0f31e27 William Farrell's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1904110/ Tue, 05 Nov 2024 11:53:59 -0500 0 ff4ca8242bf6fd8637ede9470d29437b William Farrell's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1900646/ Thu, 03 Oct 2024 16:45:54 -0400 0 cdf7f41b8a817bdab3946f85d076f2de William Farrell deposited Views of England and Wales: A New Online Collection https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1879914/ Tue, 19 Mar 2024 10:30:17 -0400 Since its formation in 1948, successive members of the Centre for Regional and Local History (CRLH) – formerly the Centre for English Local History – have collected printed images of English buildings and landscapes (and some from Wales). Most of the material dates from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, but there are a few items from the…[Read more]

]]> 0 b6474c0ee401c2245916bdc103e2ce65 William Farrell deposited People vs. things: the Worshipful Company of Weavers and regulation in eighteenth-century London https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1789852/ Tue, 09 Aug 2022 16:09:08 -0400 This paper compares the efforts of the Worshipful Company of Weavers in London to control the movement of technology and textiles with its more laissez - faire management of migrant weavers, over the long eighteenth century. From the introduction of the engine loom in the 1670s, the Weavers’ Company regulated new technology in the London textile i…[Read more]

]]> 0 630b9efa507af63e80632004d5b92c82 William Farrell's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1729570/ Mon, 01 Mar 2021 16:40:58 -0500 0 e40f95984fe9ed46a318a7049c30a92a William Farrell's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1703045/ Mon, 27 Jul 2020 13:11:45 -0400 0 fa98bddab32fd4533390befe4958544e William Farrell's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1676672/ Thu, 30 Jan 2020 09:21:42 -0500 0 4d9a98a839629a39641dbfca58333f8b William Farrell deposited Review of Tim Hitchcock and Robert Shoemaker, London Lives: Poverty, Crime and the Making of a Modern City, 1690–1800 in the group Digital Humanists https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1663408/ Sun, 15 Sep 2019 16:25:21 -0400 A review of Tim Hitchcock's and Robert Shoemaker's book London Lives: Poverty, Crime and the Making of a Modern City, 1690–1800.

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]]> 0 4fc263f0e9e9997191a1fc4b0e92c5f8 William Farrell deposited Our man in the archive https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1658910/ Sun, 28 Jul 2019 14:00:38 -0400 A response to criticism of Adam Curtis' documentary film Bitter Lake about the war in Afghanistan. I argue that Curtis is a practitioner of 'thick description' and is pioneering a new form of history through the use of audio-visual archives.

]]> 0 4c020232dd6f2a072818536293f394f9 William Farrell's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1643160/ Mon, 24 Jun 2019 16:02:28 -0400 0 6fc42f7f9d761ce6502b043d5b33e6f8 William Farrell deposited What's in the local history collections? https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1643150/ Mon, 24 Jun 2019 11:50:15 -0400 An overview of the local history collection in the University of Leicester Library, one of the largest in the U.K. Includes a focus on poll books as a source.

]]> 0 bc2eff7b7f68cfe612ac0d1c3b442abb William Farrell deposited Could library book budgets be used to fund open access monographs? https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1643149/ Mon, 24 Jun 2019 11:13:22 -0400 There are now several open access book publishers using consortia funding models. But library staff on the ground are not always enthusiastic about re-purposing budgets to fund open access books. This post explores the sources of this scepticism.

]]> 0 2fba0e2d38819a92b7b6c6f0e400c603 William Farrell deposited Rethinking the Welfare State: Interview with Tim Hitchcock https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1637770/ Wed, 10 Apr 2019 14:59:11 -0400 William Farrell talks to historian Tim Hitchcock about the origins of the welfare state and its influence on contemporary political narratives.

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https://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/review/1358

]]> 0 475feb89750da02c1dbf47b898c266f8 William Farrell's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1637742/ Wed, 10 Apr 2019 13:21:18 -0400 0 f8146efa904500a4aad95c0ffb5f6875 William Farrell deposited Drawing local history https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1637139/ Wed, 03 Apr 2019 11:53:22 -0400 The use of drawing as a research method in local history.

]]> 0 48b01ce6d68b2d2580953ea2c6b0ab2b William Farrell deposited The first Leicester thesis in English Local History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1637138/ Wed, 03 Apr 2019 11:44:01 -0400 The first PhD thesis awarded to a student in the Centre for English Local History: L. A. Parker’s Enclosure in Leicestershire, 1485-1607 (1948).

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]]> 0 0e8ed9d1dae3e4ea32cfd7879b8985ac William Farrell deposited Open access for local studies? https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1637133/ Wed, 03 Apr 2019 11:03:49 -0400 Does current open access policy work for local studies publishing and library collections?

]]> 0 ae392041c51121b2292458790e43e27a William Farrell deposited Gavin Stamp in the David Wilson Library https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1637125/ Wed, 03 Apr 2019 09:19:55 -0400 The works of Gavin Stamp (1948 – 2017), writer and historian of architecture, held in the David Wilson Library at the University of Leicester.

]]> 0 303dbd05d9e056c152914341a46d3f17 William Farrell's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1633193/ Mon, 25 Feb 2019 12:17:02 -0500 0 803b787a07155058a9125c161f9085a7 William Farrell's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1600192/ Fri, 09 Feb 2018 15:52:58 -0500 0 9329972d7bb76807bf05790e85e09630 William Farrell wrote a new post, Map of Cusham Collection, on the site History and GIS http://historygis.hcommons.org/?p=35 Mon, 13 Nov 2017 16:11:54 -0500

]]> 1bb9c00a09ce8a046fc0a15f5f769466 William Farrell's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1584890/ Wed, 18 Oct 2017 11:58:02 -0400 0 0a5b6c8f9ae6f19681a914ed17503bd5 William Farrell deposited Introducing Humanities Commons https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1580611/ Tue, 05 Sep 2017 14:54:42 -0400 Humanities Commons is the new networking website produced by the Modern Languages Association. Free and open to all, it allows researchers to share their work, make connections and create websites. We will look at how Humanities Commons works, and its advantages over commercial rivals.

]]> 0 31fcd218d4a2a3715d093d7e26823862 William Farrell's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1575959/ Mon, 17 Jul 2017 19:41:17 -0400 0 0053de3cff6239ce266977b5c02d1f94 William Farrell's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1571635/ Fri, 26 May 2017 08:22:27 -0400 0 ebd61a1ea05e32c313e79bb8e30d4114 William Farrell's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1571604/ Thu, 25 May 2017 20:40:34 -0400 0 bd16671e0ae129a281ffa5bd5d628923 William Farrell wrote a new post, Zotero Library Update, on the site History and GIS http://historygis.hcommons.org/?p=27 Thu, 25 May 2017 16:08:23 -0400 I have updated my open Zotero library this week. It now has 632 items. I have divided the library into three collections:

Digitised Maps and Geo-Data
History & GIS Publications (i.e. secondary […]

]]> 14f020e04ebf8c45dc05ba2455331ff0 William Farrell created the site History and Libraries https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1567248/ Fri, 28 Apr 2017 15:01:58 -0400 0 52498ca5b53fd725b8f44a62606fdd42 William Farrell wrote a new post, Bibliography for History and GIS, on the site History and GIS http://historygis.hcommons.org/?p=1 Fri, 28 Apr 2017 15:01:57 -0400 I have created a Zotero bibliography for History and GIS. Its intended to help historians who are starting to use GIS. It is divided into 2 folders:

History and GIS, which is academic literature. Mainly […]

]]> fca22a333bc204a7fc2be3d2db5466a7 William Farrell deposited The silk interest and the fiscal-military state https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1554521/ Mon, 05 Dec 2016 13:19:56 -0500 This chapter examines the relationship between the silk industry in eighteenth-century Britain and the fiscal-military state, specifically with Customs and Excise.

]]> 0 cb8d57e284802ef9f33cae0f4d0532f5 William Farrell's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1553693/ Wed, 30 Nov 2016 16:20:01 -0500 0 8347566571d175406c2d0313880ed15f William Farrell's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1553643/ Wed, 30 Nov 2016 09:24:13 -0500 0 c19ffcbe77088d9c8c7db52a02a668a8 William Farrell's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1553642/ Wed, 30 Nov 2016 09:23:47 -0500 0 77be05f8184b93697850c2a55435ef4c William Farrell's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1553641/ Wed, 30 Nov 2016 09:23:05 -0500 0 fea8ffb488c5a7cd7a901655eebeb0f6 William Farrell changed their profile picture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1553505/ Tue, 29 Nov 2016 19:53:35 -0500 0 cbe398a1fe20d54d1a031e5585cdcdbd William Farrell's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1553500/ Tue, 29 Nov 2016 19:47:03 -0500 0 b7e3c9918219df7a64ef53641848c23c William Farrell deposited Smuggling Silks into Eighteenth-Century Britain: Geography, Perpetrators, and Consumers https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1553485/ Tue, 29 Nov 2016 19:35:49 -0500 Abstract As part of protectionist policy in eighteenth-century Britain, imported silks
were banned from being sold. Although it is known that bans on imported textiles
were widely broken, there have been few systematic studies of the contraband trade
in silks. Using customs’ records, this article shows how smuggling supplied the
demand for i…[Read more]

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