Merchant Taylors' Company of London: Apprentices 1583–1800

<p>The database provides a comprehensive index of the apprenticeship bindings for the Merchant Taylors' Company, London's largest guild, from 1583-1800.</p>
<p>The records are a unique and substantial source of information about the social, geographical and familial background of each apprentice, providing the name, trade and parish of the father of each apprentice, the location in London of the master, and in many cases the trade in which the apprentice was to be trained.</p>
<p>The index contains over 63,000 entries and is substantially the largest of the London companies operating in the early modern period. It provides an invaluable resource for economic and social history. The Excel file includes a user guide on one of the worksheets, so is documentation as well as data</p>
<p>Although based in London, the company drew its apprentices from across England and sometimes further afield, giving the data a national scope.</p>
<p>The data has been published in hard copy by the <a href="https://www.britishrecordsociety.org/publications/136-138/">British Record Society</a>. </p>
<p>Making it available online in electronic form will facilitate academic analysis. </p>

本数据库收录了伦敦最大同业公会——商人泰勒公会（Merchant Taylors' Company）1583年至1800年间的学徒学艺契约综合索引。
该档案史料兼具独特性与丰富性，可全面展现每位学徒的社会背景、地域来源与家庭境况，具体包含学徒之父的姓名、职业、所属教区，师傅在伦敦的住址，以及多数情况下学徒受训的行业类别。
该索引收录条目逾63000条，是近代早期伦敦同业公会中规模最为庞大的同类索引资源，为经济史与社会史研究提供了无可替代的宝贵资料。本数据集以Excel文件形式提供，其中一张工作表内置用户指南，因此兼具数据与文档双重属性。
尽管该公会总部设于伦敦，但其学徒来源覆盖英格兰全境乃至部分海外地区，使得本数据集具备全国性研究视野。
该数据集的纸质版已由英国记录协会（British Record Society）出版，相关出版物链接：https://www.britishrecordsociety.org/publications/136-138/。
将其以电子形式上线发布，将进一步推动相关学术研究与分析工作。

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背景概述

该数据集收录了伦敦Merchant Taylors'公司1583年至1800年间的学徒记录，包含Excel和TAB两种数据格式，由英国数据服务提供并采用开放许可协议。