A database of Scottish Protestant preachers & their families | Supported by @NEHgov & the Strathmartine Trust
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Find out more about our early experiences of using @WikibaseCloud on our project blog:
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Come & look at our laboratory! We're using @WikibaseCloud to test some new approaches to managing our data.
Stay tuned as we add more of our data to this new tool.
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Refresh yourselves on how to use our demo website with none other than Dr Jamie Reid-Baxter!
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And, of course, the eventful ending to the career of John Book (or Boig) in the 1640s & the petitioning of Marion Inglis in the 1650s & '60s!
Oddly, most graduates did not remain/survive in their first posts for more than 10-15 years: those clustered along the central line had the shortest tenures, while those deviating to the right stayed in their first post for longer
Most presbyteries appointed ministers who had graduated within 10-15 years of their first appointment: this reflects the effort required to get into the ministry in this period
Ministers who trained at Aberdeen were usually the most mobile (although this may be skewed by the dataset), whereas Edinburgh graduates were less likely to travel further afield for their first job
The picture seems to have been remarkably consistent across different regions (presbyteries) of Scotland. There was no single presbytery that was more likely to bring in graduates from further afield...
The distances graduates were travelling to get to their first parish appointment seems to increase v slightly after 1638. This seems to be largely the result of graduates from Aberdeen travelling further afield
803 clerics with educational data & counting! Over double the size of our previous dataset!
Some initial observations...🧵
Always check your data entry: out of over 2,000 entries, there's always one outlier!
Spare a thought for William Home, a seventeenth-century minister based in the Scottish Borders. Somehow, we doubt his time at Ayton ended in 664AD.
*ahem*
ALT Data entry form for Mapping the Scottish Reformation project. The bottom pane shows an entry for the parish of Ayton with an end date of 664, rather than 1664.
