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Mile End was a hamlet located on the eastern edge of London, east of Whitechapel and exactly a mile east of Aldgate (Sugden).
Project Manager, 2022-present. Research Assistant, 2020-2022. Molly Rothwell was an undergraduate student at the University of Victoria, with a double major in English and History. During her time at MoEML, Molly primarily worked on encoding and transcribing the 1598 and 1633 editions of Stow’s
Research Assistant, 2020-2021. Managing Encoder, 2020-2021. Jamie Zabel was an MA student at the University of Victoria in the Department of English. She completed her BA in English at the University of British Columbia in 2017. She published a paper in University College London’s graduate publication
Janelle Jenstad is Associate Professor of English at the University of Victoria, Director of
Programmer at the University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre (HCMC). Martin ported the MOL project from its original PHP incarnation to a pure eXist database implementation in the fall of 2011. Since then, he has been lead programmer on the project and has also been responsible for maintaining the project schemas. He was a co-applicant on MoEML’s 2012 SSHRC Insight Grant.
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Playwright and poet.
Historian and author of
The city of London, not to be confused with the allegorical character (
Whitechapel was a street running east-west to the
Aldgate Bars from the east. fully
replenished with buildings outward, & also pestered with diuerse Allyes,
on eyther side
(Stow).
Aldgate was the easternmost gate into the walled
city. The name Aldgate
is thought to come from one of four sources:
Eastern gate
(Ekwall 36), ale
, public gate
or open to all
, or old gate
(Bebbington
20–21).
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Mile End was a hamlet located on the eastern edge of London, east of Whitechapel and exactly a mile east of Aldgate (Sugden).
According to Sugden, Mile End was used as a training ground for the citizen forces of Lond[on], as well as for fairs and shows of various kinds
. Since the area was considered the country
, citizens would go there recreationally, and it was considered a fashionable area in which to reside (Sugden). On the other hand, Mile End also had a reputation for highway robberies, was the location of a lazar house, and criminals were hung in chains at [Mile End] Green
(Sugden; Stow 1598, sig. 2D8r). During the Peasant’s Revolt of grant[ing] to their request
(Stow 1633, sig. F2r).
Mile End appears in a number of literary texts including