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2022
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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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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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2022
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St. Helens Examiner
St. Helens Examiner was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines project.British Library
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2022
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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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2022
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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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2022
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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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2022
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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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2022
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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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2022
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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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2022
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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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2022
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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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2022
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The Stockton Examiner
The Stockton Examiner (1878-1879) was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines project.British Library
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2022
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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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2022
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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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2022
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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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2022
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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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2022
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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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2022
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Midland Examiner and Wolverhampton Times
Midland Examiner and Wolverhampton Times (1874-1878) was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines project.British Library
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2022
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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
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2022
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Cotton Factory Times
Cotton Factory Times (1885-1889, 1891-1901) was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines projectBritish Library
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2022
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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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2022
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Weekly Journal
The file consists of the OCR (Optical Character Recognition) text in XML format for one year of Weekly Journal (Hartlepool) 1901. The full digitised newspaper comprises no. 1–407 (29 Nov.1901 – 17 Sep.1909). The digitised page images are available on the British Newspaper Archive website, https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/titles/weekly-journal-hartlepool The British Newspaper Archive...British Library
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Northern Guardian (Hartlepool)
Northern Guardian (Hartlepool) (1891 - 1902) was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines projectBritish Library
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2022
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North Cumberland Reformer
North Cumberland Reformer (1890 - 1898) was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines projectBritish Library
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2022
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Lancaster Standard and County Advertiser
Lancaster Standard and County Advertiser was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines projectBritish Library
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2022
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Tamworth Miners' Examiner and Working Men's Journal
Tamworth Miners' Examiner and Working Men's Journal (1873 - 1876) was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines projectBritish Library
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2022
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Alston Herald, and East Cumberland Advertiser
Alston Herald, and East Cumberland Advertiser was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines projectBritish Library
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2022
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Lancaster Herald and Town and County Advertiser
Lancaster Herald and Town and County Advertiser was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines projectBritish Library
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2022
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Shropshire Examiner
Shropshire Examiner (1874-1877) was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines project.British Library
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2022
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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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2022
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Glasgow Chronicle
Glasgow Chronicle was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines projectBritish Library
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2022
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Forest of Dean Examiner
Forest of Dean Examiner (1873-1877) was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines project.British Library
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2022
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South Staffordshire Examiner
South Staffordshire Examiner (1874) was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines project.British Library
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2022
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Stalybridge Examiner
Stalybridge Examiner (1876) which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines project.British Library
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2022
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The Cannock Chase Examiner
The Cannock Chase Examiner (1874-1877) was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines project.British Library
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2021
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Dataset for Toponym Resolution in Nineteenth-Century English Newspapers
We present a new dataset for the task of toponym resolution in digitised historical newspapers in English. It consists of 343 annotated articles from newspapers based in four different locations in England (Manchester, Ashton-under-Lyne, Poole and Dorchester), published between 1780 and 1870. The articles have been manually annotated with mentions...Coll Ardanuy, Mariona ; Beavan, David ; Beelen, Kaspar ; Hosseini, Kasra ; Lawrence, Jon …
nineteenth-century English, geographic information retrieval, newspapers, toponym resolution, and dataset
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2022
Abstract
Historic machines from 'prams' to 'Parliament': new avenues for collaborative linguistic research
Research in computational linguistics has made successful attempts at modelling word meaning at scale, but much remains to be done to put these computational models to the test of historical scholarship (see e.g. Beelen et al. 2021). More importantly, a lot of computational research looks at texts in a historical...Ridge, Mia ; Tolfo, Giorgia ; Westerling, Kalle ; Pedrazzini, Nilo ; McGillivray, Barbara
crowdsourcing, computational linguistics, and digital humanities
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2021
Research report
Living with Machines Delivery Plan version 1, 2019
Living with Machines is a five-year collaborative project. It aims to generate new perspectives on the effects of the mechanisation of labour on the lives of ordinary people in Britain during the 'long nineteenth century' (c.1780-1918), by developing computational and historical techniques and research questions for working with historical sources....Ahnert, Ruth ; Beavan, David ; Colavizza, Giovanni ; Farquhar, Adam ; Griffin, Emma …
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2020
Research report
Data Study Group Final Report: Smart monitoring for conservation areas
WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature) monitors over 250,000 protected areas (e.g. national parks and nature reserves) and thousands of other sites and critical habitats. These sites are the foundation of global natural assets and are central to the preservation of biodiversity and human well-being. Unfortunately, they face increasing pressures... -
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Book chapter
Hunting for Treasure: Living with Machines and the British Library Newspaper Collection
This chapter discusses the open access digitisation programme undertaken by Living with Machines, exploring the range of constraints that inform digitisation strategies and selection priorities. Because the landscape of digitised newspaper collections is so complex, and research and digitisation processes operate on different timelines, we have focused on opportunities to...Tolfo, Giorgia ; Vane, Olivia ; Beelen, Kaspar ; Hosseini, Kasra ; Lawrence, Jon …
interdisciplinarity, digitised newspaper collections, digital corpus, research workflows, and digitisation strategy
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2022
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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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2020
Conference paper (unpublished)
Assessing the Impact of OCR Quality on Downstream NLP Tasks
A growing volume of heritage data is being digitized and made available as text via optical character recognition (OCR). Scholars and libraries are increasingly using OCR-generated text for retrieval and analysis. However, the process of creating text through OCR introduces varying degrees of error to the text. The impact of... -
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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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2019
Conference paper (unpublished)
Defoe: A Spark-Based Toolbox for Analysing Digital Historical Textual Data
This work presents defoe, a new scalable and portable digital eScience toolbox that enables historical research. It allows for running text mining queries across large datasets, such as historical newspapers and books in parallel via Apache Spark. It handles queries against collections that comprise several XML schemas and physical representations.... -
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Conference paper (published)
Living Machines: A study of atypical animacy
This paper proposes a new approach to animacy detection, the task of determining whether an entity is represented as animate in a text. In particular, this work is focused on atypical animacy and examines the scenario in which typically inanimate objects, specifically machines, are given animate attributes. To address it,...Coll Ardanuy, Mariona ; Nanni, Federico ; Beelen, Kaspar ; Hosseini, Kasra ; Ahnert, Ruth …
nineteenth-century English, living machines, BERT, and animacy
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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