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• [x] header on the context overview page
• [x] description of all the data for the data overview page
• [x] header on the analysis overview page
• [x] pedagogy placeholder text
• [ ] about content already flagged in issue #108 and #107
• [ ] death dictionary already flagged in issue #67

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also should update and upload the parish name authority file?

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Context Overview

The London Bills of Mortality were complex documents whose format changed significantly over the hundreds of years they were produced by the Worshipful Company of Parish Clerks. These essays by project team members help explain and situate the bills in their historical context.

General Introduction

• London Bills of Mortality
• Confusion of Calendars
• Why is There Bread in the Bills?

Space and Places

• Parishes and Extra-Parochial Places
• "Within the Bills": EEBO and the Early Modern London Metropolis
• A Parish By Any Other Name

Production of the Bills

• A Woman's Touch on the Bills of Mortality
• The Parish Clerks' Memento Mori: Iconography of Death and Trademark in the London Bills of Mortality, 1727-1752

Reading the Bills

• God's Terrible Voice in the City: New England Connections to the London Bills of Mortality
• London in Tears: Grief and Collective Mourning in the Bills of Mortality
• The Facts of Mortality: the Use of the London Bills in Daniel Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year

Specific Causes of Death

• A Starvation Death During the Great Plague of 1665
• Chimneys and the Great Storm of 1703
• Found Dead? Unknown Causes of Death in the Bills of Mortality
• Infant Mortality in the Monarchical Bills of Mortality, 1665-1669
• Of Fires Great and Small
• Old Age and Aged Deaths
• Strangled himself (being distracted): Messy Data and Suicides in the Bills of Mortality

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Note: there are a couple of small typos in blog post titles I noticed while linking things

• https://dev.deathbynumbers.org/context/2022-09-26-the-facts-of-mortality-the-use-of-the-london-bills-in-daniel-dafoes-a-journal-of-the-plague-year/ has a period in the title and use should be capitalized, ideally the title "A Journal of the Plague Year" should be italicized
• https://dev.deathbynumbers.org/context/parish-clerks-memento-mori/ needs an m, m, and t capitalized and the The lowercased to be proper titlecase

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the pedagogy blog post should probably be uncategorized as context so it can properly display under the pedagogy page? https://dev.deathbynumbers.org/context/teaching-early-modern-death/

note that I'm apparently inconsistent about what's context vs. analysis as I linked to a couple of analysis posts in the context overview but we can revisit that after I've finished writing the analysis overview 🗡️ (I don't know why that's what GitHub suggested as a replacement for my traditional :D smiley face shortcut but I like it so I'm rolling with it!)

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Data Overview

The data for the Death by Numbers project has been manually transcribed out of photographs and digitized microfiche images of the original bills of mortality. To ensure that scholars are able to trace our transcriptions back to the original, archival sources, we have divided our transcribed bills into multiple datasets that are named and described according to the archive and call numbers where we found collections of bills. This is most apparent in the downloadable CSV files and can also be traced in the unique IDs for each transcription. For more on our project workflow, see our methodologies essays.

Data can be access through

• our online database
• images of the bills
• downloadable CSV files
• our API, which is documented here

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@hepplerj did we want our data overview to go more into depth on the data? I can't remember, something to discuss at 10:30!

decision: no, this is okay

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Analysis Overview

The London Bills of Mortality lend themselves to both qualitative and quantitative analyses. The following team member essays analyze the bills using a variety of historical and statistical methods.

so that's the short text for the essay page and the intro blurb for the overview page, rest of the overview page just be a chronological or alphabetical list of the blog post titles with links

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Pedagogy

The London Bills of Mortality make an excellent resource to use in a classroom environment and are appropriate for students grades 8-12, undergraduates, and graduates. You may find below a poster presentation on using the bills in the classroom and a link to the prototype of a text-based adventure game to survive the Great Plague of 1665. More pedagogical resources will be forthcoming.

• Early Modern Death in the 21st Century Classroom
• Gaming the Great Plague of London