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#DHMakes: Prof Kate Nartker recreates textiles from weave drafts in an 18th century commonplace book (Folger MS V.a.540)

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Yes, New Zealand, in the 80s

Interesting to see i and j being considered the same letter for the purposes of this "move down by one letter" code

"Auckland Plan To Put Ruapehu Out Of Business", Evening Post, 7 Sept 1965

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Photograph of a sign welcoming visitors to the Auckland Museum Research Library/Te Pātaka Mātāpuna o Tāmaki Paenga Hira. The sign has white text on a black background and is written in both English and Te Reo Maori.

Photograph of the entrance to the Auckland Museum Research Library. A blue carpeted aisle curves away to the left. The right hand wall is wood paneled to about 2/3 of its height, and bookshelves are visible in the distance.

New (to me) research library unlocked!

Tangential to the documents I was looking at, I came across the proposal from the 1960s to build an artificial ski slope on Mt Wellington/Maungarei!
This appears to be unknown to the internet, except for an newly digitised article on Papers Past.

That popped up on my recommendations too!

If you're typing your transcription into Word, turn off auto-capitalisation and auto-correct!
If you're confident in the letters but still don't know what the word means, an OED search returns matches with variant historical spellings. Or if it's a proper noun and you have some context, Google it.

It was not many years ago I learned that the plant called flax in New Zealand (Phormium tenax) isn't the same as European flax (Linum usitatissimum). I knew Maori used (phormium) flax for its fibres, but one day YouTube recommended a video on flax to linen and it was a completely different plant!

Dates: www.opensourceshakespeare.org/views/plays/...

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Visualisation: Me

Inspiration: ‘Men speak most in Best Picture Winning Films’ BBC infographic
(www.bbc.com/news/world-4...) from data by Hannah Anderson, The Pudding (pudding.cool/2017/03/film...

A bar chart showing the percentage of words spoken by women in Shakespeare's plays vs that spoken by men. The purple bars for female speech are in all cases significantly shorter than the green bars for male speech. Henry VIII: 17% female Tempest: 7% female Winter's Tale: 22% female Cymbeline: 22% female Pericles: 15% female Coriolanus: 12% female Timon of Athens: 1% female Antony and Cleopatra: 25% female King Lear: 15% female Macbeth: 20% female Measure for measure: 20% female Othello: 19% female All's well that ends well: 35% female Troilus and Cressida: 11% female Hamlet: 9% female The Merry Wives of Windsor: 29% female As you like it: 41% female Julius Caesar 5% female Twelfth Night: 32% female Henry V: 5% female Much ado about nothing: 27% female Midsummer Night's Dream: 22% female Richard II: 10% female Love's labours lost: 21% female Romeo and Juliet: 31% female Two Gentlemen of Verona: 25% female Taming of the Shrew: 12% female Titus Andronicus: 13% female Richard III: 22% female Henry VI,Part I: 13% female Henry VI, Part II: 15% female Henry VI, Part III: 13% female Comedy of Errors: 10% female

The other day I came across this visualisation of the percentage of female/male speech in Shakespeare that I made back in 2019 from @heatherfro.bsky.social's data and thought it was worth reupping. At the time there was a similar graphic for female/male speech in Oscar-winning films doing the rounds

Script/Print/Code Who can copy a text faster: a pen, a printing press, or a coder?

A few years ago there was an event where the organisers got a calligrapher, a letterpress printer, and a web developer to produce the same text, to make this exact point about the relative labour involved. There's a brief write up at www.digitalscholarship.ox.ac.uk/article/scri...

From time to time when I'm faced with a viewer like this I use the website/extension Dezoomify, which sounds like it dates from this era
dezoomify.ophir.dev

Pencil sketch of two figures in ermine-topped robes and coronets. Both are holding a sheathed sword attached to a cord around their necks, the left figure holds a sealed document. These represent a duke and a marquis.

Pencil sketch of a man in robes and a coronet holding a heart-shaped shield, and pointing to the left. This figure represents a baron.

The figures in robes remind me very much of the depictions of the different ranks of nobility in John Guillim's notebook (Folger MS V.a.447 fol. 31–35) which I believe he copied from elsewhere.
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#heraldry

Top section of the very large parchment roll entitled 'Genealogy of the right worshipful and worthy Captain Sir William Cole of the Castle of Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh, in the kingdom of Ireland'. It comprises an extensive family tree with many coats of arms painted on it. Beneath the introductory text are five figures, holding a banner or shield of their coat of arms, who are the progenitors of five of the lines from which William Cole descended

There are lots of things to admire in this image of a pedigree shared by in this recent post by @shamrockroots.com I particularly like the illustrations of people at the top of their lines of descent, and the diapering on the middle two flags
(Original pedigree is held by PRONI, reference D1702/7/5)

Very large parchment roll entitled 'Genealogy of the right worshipful and worthy Captain Sir William Cole of the Castle of Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh, in the kingdom of Ireland'. It comprises an extensive family tree with many coats of arms painted on it.

Top section of the very large parchment roll entitled 'Genealogy of the right worshipful and worthy Captain Sir William Cole of the Castle of Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh, in the kingdom of Ireland'. It comprises an extensive family tree with many coats of arms painted on it.

Close-up of a section of the very large parchment roll entitled 'Genealogy of the right worshipful and worthy Captain Sir William Cole of the Castle of Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh, in the kingdom of Ireland'. It comprises an extensive family tree with many coats of arms painted on it.

Close-up of a section of the very large parchment roll entitled 'Genealogy of the right worshipful and worthy Captain Sir William Cole of the Castle of Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh, in the kingdom of Ireland'. It comprises an extensive family tree with many coats of arms painted on it.

Heraldry! This is a huge family tree for William Cole, who established the Plantation town of Enniskillen. It asserts that he is related to many English nobility families, with wonderful illustrations of their coats of arms.

#GenHour #Genealogy #IrishGenealogy

Will let you know once he finishes a project!

#DHMakes friends: my son has started a new school, and got into their Maker class. This means his normal education takes place in (and using the resources of) a makerspace! (3d printers, sewing machines, etc) He is absolutely loving it.

Thanks for organising! It was great to meet people, and fun to do some live paleography :)

Photograph of a stone door frame with very tall metal doors. The doors are panelled and the perimeters studded with stars. The doors have a green patina so are presumably copper or bronze.

Latin was one of my favourite subjects at school and university. My first textbooks were the "Using Latin" series. Its cover was the a photo of the doors of the Roman Senate. When I went to Rome some decades later I made sure to take a picture :)

Photograph of native bush with a bird on a tree branch in the background, and another bird on a flowering flax frond in the foreground.

Update: the pūkeko has shifted trees, and is now joined by a tui in the harakeke #kikorangi

A photo of the green foliage of some trees. Sitting in the middle is a bird with blue and black feathers and a red head and beak

Spotted over breakfast: a pūkeko in a (not a ponga) tree

14/20 here. I did better on the Christmas carol questions than the popular culture :)

I think we need a mega thread of everyone's craziest archive stories.

That tracks with my experience doing some work for a US university. Payment, when it came via international mail, was a physical check drawn not on a bank but on the treasury of the relevant state. I had to open an account at the one bank in my country that still accepted foreign cheques!

I've just had a quick look and I don't think I have photographic evidence from that era either! Though I am impressed I can remember the names of people I haven't seen for 25 years!

Congratulations! Nice to see some familiar faces in the early photos too :)

Which seal is that? I can't quite make it out.

Diagram defining critical making, data physicalization, visualization, edibilization, sonification, visualization, data art, and interpretive object.

Have you seen this definition/situation of data visceralization amongst other forms of representation? startwords.cdh.princeton.edu/issues/1/dat...

Congratulations Meghan!

Floorplan of Epsom Library with annotations in red as to where the shelves were, and what they contained. The base document is Auckland Council Archives ACC 015/5837-18 (Epsom Library alterations and additions 1973)

Photograph by Henry Winkelman of the Epsom Public Library in 1924. The image shows what looks like a white stuccoed house with bay window and tiled roof, with the higher gabled roof of a hall rising behind. Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections 1-W0607.

The brain is a wonderful thing! Yesterday I had occasion to look up a photo of the old Epsom library, where I worked during high school and the start of university. Almost three decades later I can still remember the shelving layout, and what books went where, almost down to the letter!