© Tim Hitchcock & Robert Shoemaker 2015, 2020
Open Access Electronic Edition, 2020.
www.londonlives.org/book
Published by the Digital Humanities Institute, University of Sheffield.
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A catalogue record for the 2015 edition of this publication is available from the British Library.
Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication data for the 2015 edition:
Hitchcock, Tim, 1957-
London lives : poverty, crime and the making of a modern city, 1690-1800 / Tim Hitchcock and Robert Shoemaker.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 9778-1-107-63994-2 (Paperback) – ISBN 978-1-107-02527-1 (Hardback)
I. Shoemaker, Robert Brink. II. Title.
HV6950.L7H57-2014
364.109421’09033-dc23 2014017598
First published by Cambridge University Press 2015 (www.cambridge.org)
ISBN 978-1-107-63994-2 Paperback
ISBN 978-1-107-02527-1 Hardback.
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This edition does not have page numbers. Instead, chapter sections and paragraphs are numbered and these may be used for more detailed citations.
Sample citation format for the entire book
Hitchcock, Tim and Robert Shoemaker. London Lives: Poverty, Crime and the Making of the Modern City, 1690-1800 (Sheffield: The Digital Humanities Institute, 2020).
Sample citation format for individual chapters
The citation should include the title of the chapter:
Hitchcock, Tim and Robert Shoemaker. ‘Chapter 1. Introduction’, in London Lives: Poverty, Crime and the Making of the Modern City, 1690-1800 (Sheffield: The Digital Humanities Institute, 2020).
Sample citation format for chapter sections
Every chapter section in the book is numbered. The citation should include the title of the chapter section, as follows:
Hitchcock, Tim and Robert Shoemaker. ‘Chapter 1. Introduction, section 1.2. Plebeian London’, in London Lives: Poverty, Crime and the Making of the Modern City, 1690-1800 (Sheffield: The Digital Humanities Institute, 2020).
Sample citation format for specific quotations
Every paragraph in the book is numbered in the left margin. The citation should include the title of the chapter, and the paragraph number, as follows:
Hitchcock, Tim and Robert Shoemaker. ‘Chapter 1. Introduction’, paragraph 12, in London Lives: Poverty, Crime and the Making of the Modern City, 1690-1800 (Sheffield: The Digital Humanities Institute, 2020).
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After cleanup, chapters that include graphs were manually converted to the RMarkdown file format. This made it possible to recreate the original small black and white graphs - constrained by the limits of print media - as larger, colour versions better suited to the online format, using the programming language R in RStudio. (A number of other black and white images were also replaced with colour versions.)
Finally, the rmarkdown package was used to generate a static website from the Rmarkdown/markdown files, and associated graphics, dataset files, css and javascript files.
R: the Tidyverse has been indispensable; the ggplot2 package was used to generate graphs.
Visual design was based on Bootstrap, with some elements adapted from the resume theme.
The Okabe Ito colour palette, via Mike Mol’s hex table, was used to optimise the colour design of graphs for colour-blind viewers. The Coblis Color Blindness Simulator was helpful for reviewing graphs individually.
The keyword search uses the Tipue Search jQuery-based plugin by Tipue.
The javascript code to enable ‘tooltip’ footnotes is based on jQuery Inline Footnotes.
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