new blog!
Balliol College Library‘s early printed books blog is up and running! Tune in all year for posts by project staff Lucy and Nikki on the Reconstructing Nicholas Crouch cataloguing & conservation project:https://balliollibrary.wordpress.com/. There’s a link in the menu bar at right as well.
links
A few links to digital projects using early records, compiled yesterday at the Gerald Aylmer seminar @the IHR, illustrating how digital technology can be used to reflect, explain, illustrate medieval diplomatic – Lucia Duranti would be pleased :
- Henry III Fine Rolls – here is where the ‘diplomatic’ markup gets interesting
- Gascon Rolls
- Early English Laws
- Medieval Soldier project on a surprisingly boring looking website
- The Great Hospital Online – records in context from the medieval hospital of St Giles in Norwich
These projects are wonderful, and are only scratching the surface of worlds of new ways to explore old documents. But what was pointed out repeatedly yesterday is that dwindling numbers of people are able to get to grips with the handwriting, language or structure of the originals, and what wasn’t asked was… how many people actually use this resource?
Lots of exciting projects from KCL’s Centre for Computing in the Humanities here, UCL Digital Humanities here. I had no idea that there was any coordinated aproach to Digital Humanities at Oxford – there kind of is: https://dighumdb.oerc.ox.ac.uk
update
Recently added to image sets online at flickr:
- Balliol Boys’ Club Magazine 1913 and 1921
- Balliol Boat Club Journals 1837-1842, 1858-1866, 1858-1871
- Clark’s Lists Vol 1 1520-90, Vol 3 1621-44, Vol 5 1674-98, Vol 6 1699-1719.
Balliol College Archives & Manuscripts 