Volumes of signs of taverns in England and Wales. 1628 - 1858 - British Library Research Repository
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Volumes of signs of taverns in England and Wales. 1628 - 1858

2015

Abstract

The dataset comprises 14 digitised volumes (as PDFs) of a collection of tavern signs in and England and Wales dating 1628 – 1858 (with OCR-derived text.)

Files

File nameDate UploadedVisibilityFile size
taverns-signs-ocr-text.zip
30 Jan 2019
Public
6.21 MB
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taverns-signs-pdf.zip
7 Jan 2019
Public
3.03 GB
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Metadata

  • Resource type

    • Dataset

  • Contributors
    • Kirk, Tanya (Curator)
  • Institution

    • British Library

  • Publisher

    • British Library

  • Place of publication

    • London, UK

  • Official URL
  • Licence
  • DOI

    • doi.org/10.21250/tav1

  • Alternate identifier
      • identifier: DAR00120
      • type: Digital Asset Register ID
      • identifier: DAR00121
      • type: Digital Asset Register ID
  • Keywords
  • Additional information

    • The 2.82 GB .ZIP file (created using 7-Zip) contains 14 .PDF volumes. The 5.9 MB .ZIP file (created using 7-Zip) contains 14 .TXT files derived from OCR using ABBYY FineReader software (2007).e .TXT files contain plain text in UTF-8 encoding. Two Microsoft Excel workbook files in .XLSX (2010 version) and .XLS (1997 – 2003 version) format contain metadata about the digitised volumes. The British Library shelfmark is '1888.b.6'. More information is available on the catalogue (physical version).