Reflection Post 5: Mapping

For our mapping portion of the course, we worked with the Map of Early Modern London and we created a story map in ArcGIS Online. Both were extremely useful ways to help visualize what we were reading in a new, geographic way. The MoEML and ArcGIS helped me to create research questions about issues relating […]

Tarlton’s Travels and MoEML

My research question is how Tarlton traveled around London- by foot? by horse? both? Using the map of the places Tarlton mentions in his City jests, I charted areas that I thought Tarlton would travel by foot and then where Tarlton would travel by horse. However, after looking over the jests I saw that the […]

Where’s the Party?

As we have read Tarlton’s Jests we have been introduced to a great number of places Tarlton was said to have visited. This poses the question of: did Tarlton tend to drink/perform in one area more than others? To attempt to answer this question and gain a better insight into the relative locations of the […]