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Newsletter
National Life Story Collection Newsletter 4
An update on the work of the National Life Story Collection (now National Life Stories) in summer 2000. Includes a reflection from Lord Asa Briggs on the importance of oral history, and a focus article on 'Crafts Lives'.National Life Stories
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Newsletter
National Life Story Collection Newsletter 3
An update on the work of the National Life Story Collection (now National Life Stories) in winter 1999-2000. Includes a reflection from Sir Dominic Cadbury on recording his life story for 'Food: From Source to Salespoint' and a conference review from Rob Perks on 'Taking Testimonies Forward: Oral Histories of...National Life Stories
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Newsletter
National Life Story Collection Newsletter 2
An update on the work of the National Life Story Collection (now National Life Stories) in summer 1999. Features an article on the launch of 'The Century Speaks: Millennium Oral History Project' (now archived at the British Library as 'The Millennium Memory Bank'). Also includes articles on 'Food: From Source...National Life Stories
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Newsletter
National Life Story Collection Newsletter 1
An update on the work of the National Life Story Collection (now National Life Stories) in winter 1998-1999. Contains focus columns on 'Architects' Lives' and the early stages of 'Book Trade Lives'.National Life Stories
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Conference paper (published)
MapReader: a computer vision pipeline for the semantic exploration of maps at scale
We present MapReader, a free, open-source software library written in Python for analyzing large map collections. MapReader allows users with little computer vision expertise to i) retrieve maps via web-servers; ii) preprocess and divide them into patches; iii) annotate patches; iv) train, fine-tune, and evaluate deep neural network models; and...Hosseini, Kasra ; Wilson, Daniel C. S. ; Beelen, Kaspar ; McDonough, Katherine
maps and ordnance survey
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Research report
Horticultural Collections at the British Library & the National Trust: Project Report
The British Library (BL, or the Library) and the National Trust (NT, or the Trust) each have a rich relationship with the history of horticulture and botany. The aim of this June – September 2023 Doctoral Fellowship was to explore the relationship between gardens and books in the BL’s printed...Murray, Grace
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Research report
Publishing updated version of ‘R for Newspaper Data’
My Living with Machines Digital Residency, which I carried out between May and July 2023, allowed me to update and publish an online book on accessing and analysing newspaper data. The goal of the book is to make available an end-to-end set of instructions and tutorials which would allow researchers,...Ryan, Yann Ciarán
digital humanities, Victorian, historical newspapers, and Living with Machines
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Research report
Circulations and Entangled History in 19th Century Chile
The Living with Machines Digital Residences have offered our research team a remarkable opportunity to experiment with methods for extracting data from historical newspapers dating back 100 to 150 years. This interdisciplinary project aims to expand the scope of digital humanities and historical research by developing automated techniques for data...Hayward, Jennifer ; Valenzuela, Gillian ; Shakib, Khandokar
digital humanities, historical newspapers, Living with Machines, and Victorian
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Research report
An Etiquette For Minor Time Travel
A report documenting the Living with Machines Digital Residency project called "An Etiquette for Minor Time Travel" by Robert Sherman. Via an open call and running from to July 2023, six Digital Residencies were funded by the Living with Machines project to support researchers and practitioners devising creative approaches to...Sherman, Robert
art, Living with Machines, Victorian, rail, data visualisation, digital humanities, and poetry
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Research report
Visualising press politics in the United Kingdom
This project's main goal, as outlined in the initial proposal, was to develop an interactive, open-source web app that visualizes data from the Press Directories dataset alongside historical general election results. In this report, I will delve into the challenges encountered, the interesting findings uncovered, and the potential avenues for...Bonato, Nicolò
historcial newspapers, digital humanities, Victorian, politics, data visualisation, and Living with Machines