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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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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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Exhibition object labels
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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Journal article
The Use of Risk Management to Support Preventive Conservation
Risk management approaches have been increasingly used at the British Library to inform and support collection care decisions. This paper addresses the ways in which these methods have been used to address specific preservation issues at the Library, using appropriate case studies: rehousing the microfilm collection, adapting pest management protocols,...Garside, Paul ; Bradford, Karen ; Hamlyn, Sarah
collection care, preservation, risk management, and risk assessment
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Journal article
Reframing Magna Carta – Comprehensive Planning and Pragmatic Outcomes
In preparation for the British Library’s exhibition to mark 800 years of Magna Carta, the Library’s copies of the charter, and three related documents, were reframed. There were several requirements: minimal intervention; allow re-treatability; fully show rectos and text; present the charters as documents rather than artworks. Comprehensive risk assessments...Garside, Paul ; Rogerson, Cordelia ; Moorhead, Gavin ; Matsuoka, Kumiko ; Duffy, Christina
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Living with Machines
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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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Journal article
The conservation of the burnt Cotton Collection
The Cotton Collection is one of the British Library's foundation collections and represents the single greatest known resource of medieval and early modern British history and literature. Its care and conservation are of great importance to allow access to the collection both now and in the future. The collection had...Beltran de Guevara, Mariluz ; Garside, Paul
burnt parchment, damage, survey, scientific research, and conservation treatment
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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
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Journal article
Categorizing tin phosphate/silicate-weighted silks on site by near-infrared spectroscopy
One of the most versatile instrumental analytical techniques for the non-interventive characterization of organic artefacts is near-infrared spectroscopy. In the case of textiles, methodology has recently emerged for assessing the condition of historic silks on site and a corresponding protocol that allows the simultaneous weighting categorization of silks would be...Garside, Paul ; Wyeth, Paul ; Zhang, Xiaomei
costume, silk, tin weighting, near-infrared spectroscopy (NIR), weighting classification, and multivariate analysis
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Use of near IR spectroscopy and chemo‑metrics to assess the tensile strength of historic silk
Silk is a culturally important textile, found in many artefacts of historic significance including clothing, upholstery, banners and decorations. However, it is a fragile material and is prone to deterioration via a variety of mechanisms, particularly after certain historically common processing methods such as bleaching and weighting. Therefore it is...Garside, Paul ; Wyeth, Paul ; Zhang, Xiaomei
silk, spectroscopy, and conservation
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Publishers’ Plate Numbers 1850-
Publisher’s plate numbers are a crucial element in dating 18th and 19th century music, which very rarely carries a publication date. MacLachlan's list supplements the publication “English music publishers' plate numbers in the first half of the nineteenth century” (London, Faber, 1965) by O.W. Neighbour and A. Tyson. He continues...MacLachlan, David
nineteenth century, music publishers, music, and plate numbers
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Journal article
Increasing the profile and influence of conservation—an unexpected benefit of risk assessments
Risk assessment prior to treatments, exhibitions or loans is vital to conservation, allowing potential problems to be identified and mitigated. After recent work on British Library ‘Treasures’, including the Magna Carta and the Lindisfarne Gospels, it became apparent that these assessments also served to significantly raise the profile and influence...Rogerson, Cordelia ; Garside, Paul
risk assessment, loans, stakeholders, decision making, pragmatic, and conservation
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Journal article
Looking beneath Dalí's paint: non-destructive canvas analysis
A new analytical method was developed to non-destructively determine pH and degree of polymerisation (DP) of cellulose in fibres in 19th–20th century painting canvases, and to identify the fibre type: cotton, linen, hemp, ramie or jute. The method is based on NIR spectroscopy and multivariate data analysis, while for calibration...Oriola, Marta ; Možir, Alenka ; Garside, Paul ; Campo, Gema ; Nualart-Torroja, Anna …
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Conference paper (published)
The BigScience ROOTS Corpus: A 1.6TB Composite Multilingual Dataset
As language models grow ever larger, the need for large-scale high-quality text datasets has never been more pressing, especially in multilingual settings. The BigScience workshop, a 1-year international and multidisciplinary initiative, was formed with the goal of researching and training large language models as a values-driven undertaking, putting issues of...Laurençon, Hugo ; Saulnier, Lucile ; Wang, Thomas ; Akiki, Christopher ; Villanova del Moral, Albert …
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Book
Collaborative Historical Research in the Age of Big Data
Living with Machines is the largest digital humanities project ever funded in the UK. The project brought together a team of twenty-three researchers to leverage more than twenty-years' worth of digitisation projects in order to deepen our understanding of the impact of mechanisation on nineteenth-century Britain. In contrast to many...Ahnert, Ruth ; Griffin, Emma ; Ridge, Mia ; Tolfo, Giorgia
digital humanities, British history, multidisciplinarity, digital history, and nineteenth century
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Widnes Examiner
Widnes Examiner (1876-1920) was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines project.British Library
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The Runcorn Examiner
The Runcorn Examiner (1870-1954) was a weekly newspaper and years 1870-1920 have been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines project.British Library
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Warrington Examiner
Warrington Examiner (1869-1901) was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines project.British Library
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Glasgow Courier
Glasgow Courier was a thrice weekly/bi-weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines projectBritish Library
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Halifax Local Opinion
The Halifax Local Opinion was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines project. Th is dataset (BLNewspapers_HalifaxLocalOpinion0003063_1892.zip) is currently unavailable due to a technical glitch when uploading larger files into the repository. Hopefully this will be resolved and the dataset will...British Library
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Nuneaton Times
Nuneaton Times was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines project.British Library
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Birkenhead News
Birkenhead News was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines projectBritish Library
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British Miner and General Newsman
British Miner and General Newsman was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines projectBritish Library
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Swansea Journal and South Wales Liberal
Swansea Journal and South Wales Liberal was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines projectBritish Library
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Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette
Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines projectBritish Library
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Poole Telegram
Poole Telegram was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines projectBritish Library
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Pontypridd District Herald
Pontypridd District Herald was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines projectBritish Library
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Northern Weekly Gazette
Northern Weekly Gazette was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines projectBritish Library
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Liverpool Weekly Courier
Liverpool Weekly Courier was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines projectBritish Library
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Kenilworth Advertiser
Kenilworth Advertiser was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines projectBritish Library
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Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette
Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines projectBritish Library
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Bridport, Beaminster and Lyme Regis telegram
Bridport, Beaminster and Lyme Regis telegram was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines projectBritish Library
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Bridlington and Quay Gazette
Bridlington and Quay Gazette was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines projectBritish Library
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Central Glamorgan Gazette
Central Glamorgan Gazette was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines projectBritish Library
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Blandford Weekly News
Blandord Weekly News was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines projectBritish Library
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Warwickshire Herald
Warwickshire Herald was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines projectBritish Library
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Weymouth Telegram
Weymouth Telegram (1860 - 1901) was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines project.British Library
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Denton and Haughton Examiner
Denton and Haughton Examiner was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines project. Variant titles are 1873-74 The Denton, Haughton, & District Weekly News. 1874-75 Denton & Haughton Weekly News, and Audenshaw, Hooley Hill, and Dukinfield Advertiser, 1875-78 Denton Examiner, Audenshaw,...British Library
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Research report
Locating a National Collection (LaNC) Final Report
Locating a National Collection helps cultural heritage organisations to use geographical information — such as where objects were made and used or the locations they depict and describe — to connect collections and engage the public. Through workshops, audience research and software development the project has developed a set of...Rees, Gethin ; Gadd, Stephen ; Horgan, John ; Hunt, Alex ; Isaksen, Leif …
location, geographical information, collections, cultural heritage organisations, research data, and digital records
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Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser
Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. (1863 - 1914) was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines projectBritish Library
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Atherstone, Nuneaton, and Warwickshire Times
Atherstone, Nuneaton, and Warwickshire Times was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines projectBritish Library
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Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press
Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. (1847 - 1890) was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines projectBritish Library
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Cradley Heath & Stourbridge Observer
Cradley Heath & Stourbridge Observer. (1864 - 1888) was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines projectBritish Library
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Potteries Examiner
Potteries Examiner (1871 - 1881) was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines projectBritish Library