The London and Middlesex Hearth Tax: an analysis of the status and wealth of neighbourhoods and households on the eve of the Great Fire

该项目源于志愿人员最近于2006年初完成了伦敦和米德尔塞克斯妇女节炉灶纳税申报单的文字记录。伦敦炉子税务项目打破了英国学院炉子税务项目的既定做法，正在寻求拓宽和缩小学术方法：前者通过应用信息和通信技术，后者通过提出精确的历史问题。这一倡议需要的资金水平和学术支持网络远远超出到目前为止支持英国科学院炉灶项目的资助者的资源范围(请参阅“其他支持”部分)。伦敦炉子税务项目将通过完成两项主要产出来实现其目标(见“目标”一节)：1.两卷本《1666年申报单》的硬拷贝版，其中还将包括一系列涉及该项目研究问题的历史论文，以及1666年文本的关键版本；和2.1666年伦敦和米德尔塞克斯的在线数据库和历史地理信息系统(GIS)，将与英国历史在线托管的其他在线历史资源整合。为了完成这项工作，伦敦炉子税务项目将聘请自己的专业顾问，他们专门从事古文学、档案研究、统计学和历史地理信息系统，并得到伦敦大学历史研究所的都市历史中心和伦敦大学伯克贝克学院的历史、经典和考古学院的专业知识的补充。该项目将能够物有所值，同时保证最高的学术标准，因为志愿者(致力于家谱和家族史)的工作与所附项目计划中规定的历史审计程序相结合。简而言之，该项目将通过硬拷贝和电子分析相结合的方式，丰富对早期现代伦敦人和地方的了解，这将受到专业和非专业历史学家的高度重视。

The Project arises from the recent completion in early 2006 by volunteer transcribers of the transcript of the London and Middlesex Lady Day hearth tax return. Breaking with the established practices of the British Academy Hearth Tax Project, the London Hearth Tax Project is seeking both to broaden and to narrow academic approaches: the former through the application of Information & Communications Technologies, and the latter through the posing of precise historical questions. This initiative requires a level of funding and an academic support network far beyond the resources of the funders which have supported the British Academy Hearth Project hitherto (please see 'Other Support' section). The London Hearth Tax Project would meet its objectives (please see 'Objectives' section) through the completion of two major outputs: 1. a two-volume hard-copy edition of the 1666 return, which would also include a series of historical essays addressing the Project's research questions, as well as a critical edition of the 1666 text; and2. an online database and Historical Geographical Information Systems (GIS) for London and Middlesex in 1666, which will be integrated with other online historical resources hosted by British History Online .In order to complete this work, the London Hearth Tax Project will employ its own professional consultants who specialize in palaeography, archival research, statistics and Historical GIS, complemented by the expertise of the Centre for Metropolitan History at the Institute of Historical Research and the School of History, Classics and Archaeology at Birkbeck College, University of London. The Project would be able to deliver value for money while guaranteeing the highest academic standards because of the combination of the work of volunteers (who are committed to genealogy and family history) with historical auditing processes as set out in the attached Project plan. In short, the Project will enrich understanding of people and places in early modern London through the combination of hard-copy and electronic analyses, which would be highly valued by professional and non-professional historians.