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ultima thule Sep 16, 2023

Tim Sherratt Sep 16, 2023

If there's something you'd like to know about getting data out of #Trove's newspapers (or anything else about Trove data!), let me know so I can include it in the Trove Data Guide: https://updates.timsherratt.org/2023/09/15/trove-data-guide.html #GLAM #digitalHumanities #histodons

Trove Data Guide update – accessing data from newspapers and gazettes

I’m continuing to slog away at the Trove Data Guide (part of the ARDC’s HASS Community Data Lab) – dumping everything I know about Trove into a format that I hope will be useful for researchers. I’ve just finished a first pass through the section on accessing data from newspapers and gazettes, and it’s online if you want to have a look. There’s still lots of things to add, update, and reorganise, but getting the basic content of the section defined is a bit of a milestone, so I’ll allow myself a little moment of celebration.

ultima thule Aug 19, 2023

Since it's #WorldPhotographyDay you will once again be spared pics of annoying sunny days, bright sunsets, crumbling castles or people in bright yellow jackets posing idiotically atop the cliffs on Skye.

ultima thule Mar 18, 2023

St Patrick’s day may have been and gone, but today you get to enjoy the confirmed, revised or still-to-be-verified dates for Capt. Crozier’s parents and siblings. Summary now available on https://www.thethousandthpart.com/notes/the-croziers-of-banbridge

The Croziers of Banbridge — the thousandth part

We are indebted for basic genealogical information on the Croziers of Banbridge to Francis Henry Crozier, whose Memorials of the Family of Crozier , published in 1881 and known to contain some omissions and errors, has sadly not been updated since. Additionally, the book mentions very few dates rel

the thousandth part

ultima thule Mar 12, 2023

illuminator⚓️FranklinEx.Mar 12, 2023

Even Death In The Ice didn’t have original dags on display. Two Franklin Expedition daguerreotypes have left SPRI and travelled to Oxford’s Bodleian Library, til May 7th. Additional pics/info on illu:

https://www.illuminator.blog/p/dags-at-oxford.html

Photos: Two daguerreotypes travel to Oxford.

{ Two Franklin Expedition daguerreotypes in Oxford. } March 12th, 2023. Two of the surviving twelve daguerreotype portraits of the F...

ultima thule Mar 6, 2023

illuminator⚓️FranklinEx.Mar 6, 2023

Portsmouth trying to raise money (a lot) for a Franklin search flag. Interesting to see such a high res image; this might have been hung in the Franklin relics display at the 1891 Royal Naval Exhibition.

It's from HMS Resolute, which always attracts more international interest.

https://www.nmrn.org.uk/news/Kelletts-sledge-flag-urgent-appeal

The National Museum of the Royal Navy leads fight to save the polar sledge flag used in hunt for Franklin’s doomed expedition | National Museum of the Royal Navy

Donate today to save the flag

ultima thule Feb 6, 2023

Alison Feb 3, 2023

C'mon, people. I need this.

ultima thule Jan 3, 2023

illuminator⚓️FranklinEx.Jan 3, 2023

The 1842 Harry Goodsir portrait: at some point St. Andrews uploaded significantly better resolution. It wipes away the last bit of computer pixels from his face, showing the original photography grain.

[My edit here is darkened only—nothing fancy/freaky.]

https://collections.st-andrews.ac.uk/item/dr-harry-goodsir/79183