Jekyll website for the Early English Book Subscribers Project @ Boston College
What good is a book if it can’t even be published? Facing these challenges, some authors in early modern England published their books through a subscription model. Subscribers paid for their copies in advance, easing the publication of scholarly and other expensive books. In return, printers included their names in the book itself, marking subscribers as distinguished patrons of learning and literature.
Early English Book Subscribers introduces the men and women who subscribed to books published in England between 1617 and 1698. Its core is a dataset of demographic information based on twelve surviving subscriber lists, with 4,104 entries. Along with the original transcribed list entries, viewers can learn the class status, presumed gender, formal education level, industry, profession, and geographic location, when known, of individual subscribers.
This dataset is free to download and use. The author hopes that EEBS will provide scholars and students a springboard for future research into the history of print culture in seventeenth-century England.
- Elspeth Currie, a PhD student in history at Boston College.
- Dr. Bee Lehman, project managed
- Le Lyu, Javascript support
- Brianna Reisbeck, Chase Hockeman, Sylvia Notarfonso, and Michael Lyon, fellow members of the Digital Humanities as Public Scholarship class, Spring 2023.
- Follow this guide to install Ruby and Jekyll
- Install Node
git clonethis repo and thencdinside the directory- Comment out the
urlandbaseurllines of_config.ymlwhen working locally - Install Ruby dependencies by running
bundle install - Install Node dependencies by running
npm install - Run the server with
bundle exec jekyll serve
Jekyll & Tailwind Setup based on TailPages by Harry Wang (Chinese: 王建楠)