Tasks
We have formulated a few tasks meant to help you get started, but once you are up and running, it is perfectly fine to join up with other participants and follow your own path to the finish line.
Photo: Gerard Schenk, Pieter Schenk, Johan van Loon
The tasks are:
- Illuminate the appealing and unappealing parts of urban life through an examination of the various themes in the Writings of the Freedom of the Press.
- Elucidate trends and currents from literature through studies of titles, publishers and texts published in Denmark from 1750 to 1799.
- Explain life and living conditions based on information in the Census from 1787.
The three data sets are interesting individually, but it might also be interesting to include the three data sets in a combined study. What questions could we, for instance, ask of the Writings of the Freedom of the Press based on the population statistics we can produce from the Census?