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Microhistory in early modern London: John Bedford (1601-1667)

Lookup NU author(s): Professor Jeremy Boulton

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Abstract

This article represents an exercise in microhistory applied to early modern London. Deploying prosopographical methods, it reconstructs the life history of one John Bedford (1601-1667) from his birth in Huntingdon to his death in the West End of London. Much of his adult life was spent in the London parish of St Dionis Backchurch, with an interlude in the Irish town of Londonderry. Bedford fled from Ulster at the outbreak of the Irish Rebellion in 1641. His unusually detailed will provides the bedrock of this narrative, and his reconstructed life sheds important light on ties between London and Ulster, on debt and credit relations and on the methodological strengths and limitations of community studies that focus on a specific place. © 2007 Cambridge University Press.


Publication metadata

Author(s): Boulton J

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Continuity and Change

Year: 2007

Volume: 22

Issue: 1

Pages: 113-141

Print publication date: 01/05/2007

ISSN (print): 0268-4160

ISSN (electronic): 1469-218X

Publisher: Cambridge University

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0268416006006163

DOI: 10.1017/S0268416006006163


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