In Search of Past Time: Popular Perceptions of Time c.1550-c.1800

这个项目将调查1550-c年间英国中部地区流行的时间观念及其与记忆文化的相互作用。1800年，主要通过使用利奇菲尔德和考文垂的12000份证词和其他文件。场地覆盖了广阔的区域（斯塔福德郡、德比郡、什罗普郡北部和沃里克郡北部），可以比较不同的社会经济区域，从皮克区到伯明翰和黑乡的快速工业化地区。该项目将使人们对流行的时间观念有一个成熟和知情的理解，探索关于时钟和工业时间兴起的说法，从而使生产力变化的分析历史化。

This project will investigate popular perceptions of time and their interaction with cultures of memory in the English Midlands, c.1550-c.1800 primarily through use of the c. 12,000 depositions and other papers of the Lichfield and Coventry consistory court. The court covered a wide area (Staffordshire, Derbyshire, north Shropshire, and north Warwickshire) allowing for comparison between very different socio-economic zones, from the Peak District to the rapidly industrialising areas of Birmingham and the Black Country. The project will enable a mature and informed understanding of popular time perception, exploring claims about the rise of clock and industrial time and thereby historicising analyses of changes in productivity.