{"id":727,"date":"2015-07-02T18:10:41","date_gmt":"2015-07-02T18:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=727"},"modified":"2015-07-02T18:11:18","modified_gmt":"2015-07-02T18:11:18","slug":"romantic-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=727","title":{"rendered":"Romantic London Website"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/HorwoodBanner2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-728\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/HorwoodBanner2-1024x275.jpg\" alt=\"HorwoodBanner2\" width=\"698\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/HorwoodBanner2-1024x275.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/HorwoodBanner2-300x81.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/HorwoodBanner2-150x40.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/HorwoodBanner2.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 698px) 100vw, 698px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Abusing my position as editor here briefly, I&#8217;d just like to point readers in the direction of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.romanticlondon.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">a new digital project I&#8217;m working on<\/a> which puts Richard Horwood&#8217;s \u2018PLAN of the Cities of LONDON and WESTMINSTER the Borough of SOUTHWARK, and PARTS adjoining Shewing every HOUSE\u2019 (1792-9) into conversation with a series of other Romantic-period works which seek to organise the city.\u00a0 The site features a detailed, zoomable version of the Plan (from images provided by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bl.uk\" target=\"_blank\">British Library<\/a>) layered over modern digital maps of the city, allowing for comparisons and contrasts.\u00a0 It currently features annotated versions placing plates from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.romanticlondon.org\/microcosm\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Microcosm of London<\/em><\/a> (1808-10), plates and text from <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.romanticlondon.org\/modern-london-1804\/\" target=\"_blank\">Modern London<\/a><\/em> (1804) and text from <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.romanticlondon.org\/fores-guide\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fores\u2019s New Guide for Foreigners<\/a><\/em> and the 1788 edition of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.romanticlondon.org\/harris-list-1788\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Harris\u2019s List of Covent-Garden Ladies<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 The site is very much a work in progress at present &#8211; eventually, there&#8217;ll be a number of additional functions and several series of more literary annotations &#8211; but hopefully what&#8217;s there at present will already be of use for scholars working on the Romantic-period metropolis.\u00a0 If you have any thoughts on the site (or have any problems using it), I&#8217;d be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.romanticlondon.org\/about-this-project\/\" target=\"_blank\">very grateful for any ideas or feedback<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abusing my position as editor here briefly, I&#8217;d just like to point readers in the direction of a new digital project I&#8217;m working on which puts Richard Horwood&#8217;s \u2018PLAN of&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=727\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":""},"categories":[9,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=727"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":730,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727\/revisions\/730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}