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

这个项目将主要通过使用利奇菲尔德和考文垂共同故事法庭的约12,000份证词和其他文件来调查英国中部地区(公元1550-1800年)对时间的普遍看法及其与记忆文化的互动。法院覆盖了广泛的地区(斯塔福德郡、德比郡、什罗普郡北部和沃里克郡北部)，允许对非常不同的社会经济区域进行比较，从山顶地区到伯明翰和布莱克郡的快速工业化地区。该项目将使人们能够成熟和明智地理解流行的时间观念，探索关于时钟和工业时间上升的主张，从而使对生产率变化的分析成为历史。

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.