Mapping Multifaith London, 1689-c.1740
Mapping different faith communities in 18th century London
Mapping Multifaith London provides the first digital map of a European capital's dissenting and nonconformist heritage by following the development of minority religious communities and stranger churches in London across the period 1689-c.1740. The primary aim of the project is to reassess these communities' significance in early-modern religious history and the history of religious sociability, by observing how multiconfessional exchange developed in religious places, such as places of worship, places of memory, and charitable and educational institutions. For this pilot, funded by a bilateral Programme Hubert Curien (Campus France, the British Council), we created a relational database of dissenting (quaker, presbyterian, congregational and baptist) and Huguenot places of worship using a manuscript list from 1730. We put our data into Geovistory and translate it to a map of London from 1746 (John Rocque's map, georeferenced and provided by the British Library and used with permission). You can use this map to search for people and places and to see where they were located and how they were connected.
The map below depicts the meeting places of dissenting and huguenot communities in 18th century London
Note that the map is shown in high resolution when you zoom in. Click on any location for detailed information.
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Project leaders
Anne Dunan-Page (Aix-Marseille Université)
Tessa Whitehouse (Queen Mary University of London)
Geovistory co-ordinators
William Burgess (Queen Mary University of London)
David Knecht (KleioLab)
Huguenot Team
Dan Rafiqi (King's College London)
Mathilde Monge (Université Toulouse Jean-Jaurès)
Ed Legon (Queen Mary University of London)
Catholic Team
Claire Schiano-Locurcio (Aix-Marseille Université)
Laurence Lux-Sterritt (Aix-Marseille Université)
Emily Vine (Exeter University)
Quakers Team
Anna Hellier (Université Rennes 2)
Naomi Pullin (Warwick University)
English Dissenters Team
Anne Dunan-Page (Aix-Marseille Université)
Colin Harris (Aix-Marseille Université)
Alison Searle (Leeds University)
Jewish Team
Emily Vine (Exeter University)
Tessa Whitehouse (Queen Mary University of London)
Architecture and Mapping Team
Harry Adams (Courtauld Institute)
Christine Stevenson (Courtauld Institute)
Digital advisers
Hannah Williams (Queen Mary University of London)
Chris Sparks (Queen Mary University of London)
Intern
Julia Laget (Master Études culturelles du monde anglophone, Aix-Marseille Université, TIGER/TFR internship)
