Because the laboring poor in Late Modern England were rarely literate, their stories have been told almost exclusively by a privileged minority of educated authors and playwrights. A research project led by dhCenter member Anita Auer aims to change that. (Lead image : Petition letter, reused with permission of the Cumbria Archive Centre, Barrow-in-Furness (Ref: … Continue reading Unique corpus gives a voice to England’s laboring poor