{"id":3586,"date":"2021-04-20T15:26:20","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T14:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/?p=3586"},"modified":"2021-04-20T15:57:58","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T14:57:58","slug":"professor-catherine-richardson-develops-social-status-calculator-as-part-of-collaborative-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/2021\/04\/20\/professor-catherine-richardson-develops-social-status-calculator-as-part-of-collaborative-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Catherine Richardson develops Social Status Calculator as part of collaborative project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Professor of Early Modern Cultural Studies, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/english\/people\/107\/richardson-catherine\">Catherine Richardson<\/a>, is principal investigator on a collaborative project with researchers from King&#8217;s College London and the University of Birmingham who have developed a class calculator to explore the cultural and social world of the 16<sup>th<\/sup> and 17<sup>th<\/sup> Century England. The calculator will allow individuals to see where they would have sat on the social scale during Shakespeare&#8217;s era &#8211; the period of 1560 \u2013 1660, and can be used as a research tool to identify the status of historic figures.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/middlingculture.com\/status-calculator\/\">The Social Status Calculator<\/a>, inspired by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/special\/2013\/newsspec_5093\/index.stm\">2013 BBC Great British Class Calculator<\/a>, is an educational resource tool which breaks down what \u201cmiddling\u201d status would mean for those living during the 16<sup>th<\/sup> and 17<sup>th<\/sup> century England \u00a0\u2013 the kinds of people who were neither very rich, nor very poor.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Richardson shares, \u2018We wanted to find a light-hearted way of exploring what life was like for the different status groups in early modern England \u2013 a lot of research into archives and museum collections lies behind it, but we hope it\u2019s essentially great fun to use! It is one of the tools we are using to help us to think about the cultural lives of Shakespeare\u2019s contemporaries in the round, and to investigate the impact of the relationships between wealth, possessions, occupation, skills and lifestyle \u2013 to deepen our understanding of how literacy and creative practices might have affected a family\u2019s social mobility.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The Social Status Calculator forms part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/middlingculture.com\/\">Middling Culture<\/a> research project, an Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded project that aims to transform our understanding of how reading, writing and material culture fitted into the everyday lives of England\u2019s \u201cmiddling\u201d people during that important period in history.<\/p>\n<p>Try out the <a href=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/middling-culture\/class-calculator\/\">Social Status Calculator<\/a> online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor of Early Modern Cultural Studies, Catherine Richardson, is principal investigator on a collaborative project with researchers from King&#8217;s College London and the University of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/2021\/04\/20\/professor-catherine-richardson-develops-social-status-calculator-as-part-of-collaborative-project\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40592,"featured_media":3587,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124,70,9111],"tags":[239889,239888,239890],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3586"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40592"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3586"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3591,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3586\/revisions\/3591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}