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Learning object
Locolligo British Library tutorial
This explanation of how to transform and wrangle geographical cultural heritage and humanities data using Locolligo software. Delivered as part of the British Library’s internal ‘Hack and Yack’ training programme on 19 Jan 2023, this document was provided as a handout. Locolligo is a single-page, browser-based JavaScript application to facilitate...Gadd, Stephen
location, geography, map, and cultural heritage
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Learning object
Peripleo Linked Pasts tutorial
This is a tutorial in mapping cultural heritage and humanities data and making these available on the web using Peripleo software. Delivered as part of the Linked Pasts symposium on 23 Nov 2022, this document was provided as a handout. Peripleo is a prototype application for the discovery and spatial...Rees, Gethin ; Simon, Rainer ; Gadd, Stephen
location, cultural heritage, map, and geography
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Dataset
The Newspaper Press Directory (1846-1920) - enriched and structured version
Mitchell's Newspaper Press Directories contained an almost complete list of newspapers published in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. It was published regularly from 1846 onwards and provided a detailed description of the newspaper landscape over time. This version contains a structured, tabular representation of the directories (as CSV or Excel...C. Mitchell and Co. ; British Library
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Living with Machines: Human stories from the industrial age (exhibition board text)
‘Living with Machines: Human stories from the industrial age’ was a free exhibition at Leeds City Museum from July 2022-January 2023. It explored how machines and mechanisation changed life and work in Leeds and the surrounding regions. A collaboration between the British Library and Leeds City Museum, the exhibition was...Ridge, Mia ; McGoldrick, John
history of science, mechanisation, data science, industrialisation, history of technology, and information visualisation
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Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. (1858 - 1918) was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines projectBritish Library
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Journal article
Cretaceous gnetalean yields first preserved plant gum
Some liquid plant exudates (e.g. resin) can be found preserved in the fossil record. However, due to their high solubility, gums have been assumed to dissolve before fossilisation. The visual appearance of gums (water-soluble polysaccharides) is so similar to other plant exudates, particularly resin, that chemical testing is essential to...Roberts, Emily A. ; Seyfullah, Leyla J. ; Loveridge, Robert F. ; Garside, Paul ; Martill, David M.
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The Blackpool Gazette & Herald
The Blackpool Gazette & Herald (1874 - 1919) was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines project. All but one of these datasets is currently unavailable due to a technical glitch when uploading larger files into the repository. Hopefully this will...British Library
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Darlington & Richmond Herald
Darlington & Richmond Herald was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines projectBritish Library
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Colne Valley Guardian
Colne Valley Guardian was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines projectBritish Library
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Journal article
An investigation of weighted and degraded silk by complementary microscopy techniques
A number of silk samples, comprising historic materials and modern surrogates, were examined by light, electron and atomic force microscopy, to determine the extent to which such assessments would allow the nature and condition of the materials to be determined. The integrity of these materials had previously been investigated using...Garside, Paul ; Mills, Graham A. ; Smith, James R. ; Wyeth, Paul
silk, textiles, microscopy, atomic force microscopy, conservation, and scanning electron microscopy