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WARCnet survey: COVID-19 Web Collections
This survey aimed to explore the methodologies and strategies employed by heritage institutions in collecting and documenting COVID-19-related developments on the Web. With a primary focus on European efforts, the survey sought to understand the scope and collection tactics of COVID-19 Web archives. Conducted under the auspices of the WARCnet...Bingham, Nicola ; de Wild, Karin ; Nyvang, Caroline ; Geeraert, Friedel
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Handlist of Post-1600 French Literary Manuscripts and Letters in the Department of Manuscripts of the British Library
This list provides an overview of post-1600 literary manuscripts and letters in the French language held in the British Library’s Western Manuscripts Collections. It was compiled in 1996 by Julian Conway, superintendent of the Manuscripts Reading Room. It focuses primarily on diverse manuscript material written by literary figures, with an...Conway, Julian
manuscripts, letters, autograph, French, correspondence, and literary
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What’s in a name? The Sovietisation of the Mongolian language and the Challenges of Reversal
This blog post introduces a newly digitised collection of Mongolian newspapers and discusses how the script of the text within these newspapers highlights issues relating to the Sovietisation of the Mongolian language.Jevon, Graham
newspapers, Russia, Central Asia, Mongolia, digitisation, China, writing, digital images, and Russian revolution
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The Legacy of Slavery: A 19th Century Newspaper and 21st Century Racial Inequity
This blog post introduces a newly digitised collection of 18th/19th century Barbadian newspapers and commented on the slavery related content of these newspapers within the context of 21st century racism.Jevon, Graham
newspapers, Christianity, resistance, Barbados, racism, empire, Americas, colonialism, Caribbean, slavery, digital images, and British Empire
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Mapping Caribbean Diasporic Networks through the Correspondence of Andrew Salkey
This is a guest post by Natalie Lucy, a PhD student at University College London, who recently undertook a British Library placement to work on a project Mapping Caribbean Diasporic Networks through the correspondence of Andrew Salkey.Lucy, Natalie
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Mapping the Caribbean Diaspora through Andrew Salkey's Correspondence
A British Library PhD Placement project to map the Caribbean Diasporic Network evident in the correspondence files of the Andrew Salkey Archive using data visualisation platforms Gephi and Kepler. The aim of the project was to map the movement of the correspondents across the globe overtime and create visualisations of...British Library
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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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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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Star Baker or Avid Taste-Tester? – Exploring Evanion’s 19th-century baking ephemera collection
Developments in baking products in nineteenth-century Britain made baking easier, quicker and cheaper. Using advertisements from the Evanion collection, this blog looks at the revolution of the pudding in Victorian Britain.Solomons, Amy
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