Inequality in Restoration England: Status, Occupation and Wealth in the Town and Countryside

这个博士学位将使用并创造新的数字人文资源来调查17世纪英国的财富和社会不平等。之所以选择这个，是因为最近的研究和这一著名历史时期的相关性。17世纪晚期，英国经历了剧烈的社会和经济改革，彻底改变了整个世界。这与我们作为一个国家和社会正在经历的当前和未来的社会和经济变革有相似之处。本文将以Branko Milanovic在2018年提出的前工业社会财富不平等模型为出发点，进一步研究从前现代社会向现代社会过渡的农村和城市社会的分类数据。以前的历史社会财富分配分水岭模型将被带入对话并依次进行评估。本文将集中在两个研究主题：1。调查英国复辟时期城乡之间的财富和人口分布。询问职业如何影响城市和农村环境中的经济地位和住宅分区。学习区域将是伦敦和米德尔塞克斯；赫尔与约克郡的东骑；布里斯托尔与萨默塞特和格洛斯特郡；诺威奇和诺福克；北安普顿和北安普顿郡。这将提供一个来自全国各个角落的图片，并为全国范围内的比较提供广泛的基础。该项目将使用来自灶火税的财富和人口分布的修正数据，并辅以当地遗嘱清单和其他当代记录——这些数据尚未以这种规模汇集在一起。将为跨学科研究创建新的数字资源：数据地图的集合和一个记录在多个当代文件中的历史人物的在线数据库。这将给出一个历史上的社会和生活在其中的人的三维形象。

This PhD will use and create new digital humanities resources to investigate wealth and social inequalityacross seventeenth-century England. This has been selected because of recent research and the relevanceof this famous historical period. Late seventeenth-century England sustained drastic social and economicoverhauls which changed its world forever. This has parallels to the current, and coming, social andeconomic changes that we are going through as a nation and society.Using Branko Milanovic's 2018 model for wealth inequality in pre-industrial societies as a jumping off point,this thesis will go further and investigate disaggregate data from rural and urban societies undergoingtransition from a pre-modern to a modern society. Previous watershed models of historic social wealthdistribution will be brought into the conversation and assessed in turn.The thesis will focus on two research themes:1. investigate wealth and population distribution both within and in-between the town and the countrysideof Restoration England.2. ask how occupation affected economic status and residential zoning in both urban and ruralenvironments.The regional areas of study will be London and Middlesex; Hull and the East Riding of Yorkshire; Bristol withSomerset and Gloucestershire; Norwich and Norfolk; and Northampton and Northamptonshire. This willgive a picture from each corner of the country and wide base for nation-wide comparison. The project willuse tempered data from the Hearth Tax for wealth and population distribution and supplement this withlocal probate inventories and other contemporary records - which have not yet been brought together onthis scale.New digital resources for interdisciplinary research will be created: collections of data maps and an onlinedatabase of historical persons who are recorded in multiple contemporary documents. This will give athree-dimensional image of a society in history and the people who lived in it.