‘A Very Fair Statement of His Past Life’: Transported Convicts, Former Lives and Previous Offences
As mass digitization brings new opportunities for analysing criminal and convict records, this article considers how we can recover the personal histories of the convicted. It proposes ‘intimate reading’ as a complementary approach to large-scale data mining and distant reading methods currently bei...
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Open Library of Humanities
2015-10-01
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| Series: | Open Library of Humanities |
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| Online Access: | https://olh.openlibhums.org/article/id/4402/ |