Philip Allfrey

Number 39!

What is #Digital​Humanities? The Album Because defining DH takes a whole album. Or more.

Nice! I've just been thinking this week I need to get back to working on "What is #DH? the Album"
what-is-dh-the-album.netlify.app

Photograph of a wooden desk with brass handles and three panels of gilt-tooled magenta leather, the middle one of which is a sloped writing surface. At the back corners of the desktop are two sets of three small drawers connected by a galleried shelf. In front of the desk is a slat-backed wooden swivel chair.

I've been wanting a pedestal desk for my daily workspace for ages, and one finally came up locally in my price bracket a couple of months ago!

Yes, see vol 537 of Hansard from Jul 1993. 2nd reading, committee, and 3rd reading were held over a couple of days under urgency. At least some of the votes were conscience issues (ie not on party lines). 3rd reading vote was 64 to 4 (on p.155) with names given
www.parliament.nz/en/pb/hansar...

Former Windsor Herald, William Hunt, receives an honorary doctorate. #heraldry

Reupping the advice to always talk to the staff when you go to an archive.
Shout out to James at Auckland Council Archives today, who directed me to a record series I didn't know about which had valuable information about one of my local history projects!

In the first instance I'd try Special Collections at the University of St Andrews; this blog post suggests it's available in their reading room. Failing that, Dr Martin appears to still be active in academia, so possibly contact her directly
university-collections.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2015/11/19/r...

Journal of Alexander Gillespie, skipper in Elie Manuscript sailing journal of Alexander Gillespie, skipper in Elie, Fife, recording details of his trading voyages between 1662 and 1685.<br/> <br/> <br/>This journal records voyages undertaken by Ale...

This is impressive work, I wish I had a use case for it!
For a paleography course I took a decade ago we looked briefly at a journal of a 17th century Scots mariner. It's been digitised at collections.st-andrews.ac.uk/item/journal... Paula Martin made a transcription, but I don't know if it's online

The Pulter Project, Poet in The Making Digital edition of the poems written by Hester Pulter.

The Pulter Project makes a lot of considered design choices, and their poems page is no exception. Filter by tag, add to comparison tool, links to different editions. I particularly like the fade out of the first line, & background colours for search result types
pulterproject.northwestern.edu#poems

Dictionaries of the Scots Language:: SND :: hythe

The one near Norwich is Beckhithe. "Hythe" apparently came into Scots from Old English, with the meaning of harbour or landing place, and is not obsolete in that language, hence the row of hythes along that coast (I named those ones in the alt text on the zoomed-in image)

dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/hy...

Map of Great Britain with markers indicating places or roads containing "hythe" or "hithe" in their name

Map of Great Britain with markers for places with "hythe" or "hithe" in their name

Zoomed in map of the north of Scotland showing 10 markers along the coast, representing places with Hythe or Hithe in the name: Collach Hithe, Little Hythe, Slough Hythe, Crooked Hythe, Portknockie Hythe, Portlong Hythe, Redhythe Point, Old Hythe, Cowhythe Head, Boat Hythe, Fife Hythe.

@dannybate.bsky.social @broadsgirl.bsky.social I've plotted all the places with hythe and hithe in their name from OS Open Names. The regional distribution is quite striking. When you add in road names too, some of these appear to have historical roots. Haven't included non-obvious ones like Chelsea

Today's success: Library catalogue uses Primo from Ex Libris. But links in a union catalogue show Alma instead. Ex Libris is everywhere, surely it supports OAI-PMH? Docs say Alma does. Domain is easy from URL, but what about the institution code? This string ending in INST looks plausible. Success!

It is such a rush to correctly deduce the location of a fully functioning *unadvertised* API when you need to get structured metadata out of a GLAM institution's catalogue!

#DigitalHumanities

If the minims with descenders indicate the final stroke of an m, then I read it as "quod scriptum suum sic bene dictum"

Screenshot of an auction listing, reading "Lot Details watercolour and ink, named and detailed verso 'Miss Burke Auckland New Zealand March 29th 1862'. This inscription probably detailing the owner of this work. 220 x 440mm. Note: This catalogue description has been amended due to an expert opinion being received by Cordy's." The note has been highlighted.

Putting my paleography and local history degree to good use in correcting a listing at the local auction house :)

I have 99 sidelines but eccentric theology isn't one :)
I may have to revise my scope then, will check back in in a few decades!

Dorothy Amherst #HerBook

Funnily enough, that is my tentative thesis project for when I retire and go back to do my MA in Latin (that or an edition of another heraldic text)!

Apparently abolished in 1833. See e.g. www.british-history.ac.uk/old-new-lond...

As an alternative, may I offer "Per pile throughout bleu-celeste and argent, two piles conjoined in point throughout rose, overall the words "Trans knights are human knights" sable.

(This treats the background as blue with a solid white V, with two pink V's on top)

And that pennon is amazing!

I've now checked the archives of the University of Oxford Gazette, Gatenby graduated DPhil on 11 March 1920, Lakshman Sarup graduated DPhil 24 June 1920, so he was first by a few months. (See pp.503 and 823 of the 1919/20 volume of the Gazette
portal.sds.ox.ac.uk/articles/onl... )

Deep dive by @spil030.bsky.social into the history of the PhD in NZ on its 100th anniversary.
Fun fact: the first Oxford DPhil was awarded to a New Zealander*

* Dr James Brontë Gatenby was one of the first two DPhils, awarded in 1920. I don't know whether the other guy graduated before or after him

ESTC is back!

Certainly, happy to have helped :)

@celinecamps.bsky.social you beat me to it!
The addition is in Latin, possibly about errata:
".1. 22 die septembris et est in p[ri]ma? 3 ??? erratu[m] q? ??? ??? 24 die".
The main text is German about things that occurred at a specific date and time. I also wonder if the numerals could be LXXXX...

I am delighted to announce that my data paper "Locations of Markets in English Market Towns, 1813: Constructing a dataset" has just been published in ZfdG

This is a deep dive into the process & decisions that went into creating a dataset of market locations from a C19th text
doi.org/10.17175/202...

Photograph of a crowd of people gathered in the dark. A stone monument with flags is present to the right, and a bright light shines right at the camera.

Photograph of a crowd in front of the stone cenotaph at Auckland War Memorial Museum – Tāmaki Paenga Hira. The flags of Australia, New Zealand and the UK hang from poles on the side. The sun is just rising in the background.

4am start this morning but all four of us made it to the ANZAC day dawn service at Auckland War Memorial Museum – Tāmaki Paenga Hira.

Lest we forget.

This just goes to show why understanding the context of the creation of an image can be important!
This photo also allows me to make sense of other partial photos of and around the site. In particular it looks like the old house and the new house co-existed for some decades. Fin./

Detail of late 19th century photograph clearly showing four houses. The central one is Hazelbank. Te Papa photography collection C.011160, https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/23205

Detail of the George Treacy Stevens birds-eye view of the same houses.

A quick search of their digitised collections brought up the negative, and it's wonderful! I can zoom in and clearly see the same house which is sketched on the bird's eye view
collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/23205

But through my other research I had found that (a) the Burton Bros were using large glass plate negatives, which were quite high resolution, and (b) Te Papa has the original negatives!