I guess it's a question of scale. AI can transcribe more content in less time. Your mileage will vary when it comes to accuracy, depending on the state of the facsimiles, the training of the model, etc. Human or AI, you'll want a human to proof-read.

Count yourself lucky if you've never hit yourself with a hammer after extracting a troublesome nail. I imagine it's something like that.

Folks heading home after #shakes2026 might enjoy a podcast I did with @drpetekirwan.bsky.social in November 2025, now online, for the OSU Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. We chat #earlymodern drama, performance, and digital scholarship. cmrs.osu.edu/resources/no...

I feel seen.

SOLVED. Make sure to use datb.cerl.org/estc rather than the site (hosted on data.cerl.org) that estc.bl.uk forwards you to. Huzzah!

#earlymodern folks -- does anyone else get this "no such index [estc]" error when trying to search the ESTC on CERL?

For those of you #earlymodern folks playing Arden4 bingo at home, time to mark your sheets! After years of secrecy, @ardenpublisher.bsky.social reveals the full lineup: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/discover/...

Latest lino reconstuction of an #earlymodern woodcut complete -- Moll Cutpurse!

Shakespeare Special issue on ‘Adapting Shakespearean Romance in Indian Cinema’, guest-edited by Thea Buckley and Rosa García-Periago. Volume 21, Issue 4 of Shakespeare

Special issue, "Adapting Shakespearean Romance in Indian Cinema" (guest-edited by @thea987.bsky.social and Rosa Garcia-Periago) out now! www.tandfonline.com/toc/rshk20/2... #Shakespeare #earlymodern

Sharpie Sharpie, a letterform recognition game for apprentice Early Modern palaeographers

✍ Introducing ✍

Sharpie, a letterform recognition game for beginner #EarlyModern #palaeography

gjhilton.github.io/Sharpie/

AKA What I Did Over Reading Week.

#skystorians I’d be so grateful if you had time to share or take a look and tell me what sucks and needs fixing.

Love g 🗃️

Having your cake and the option of eating it too is always preferable! ^_^ Again, it's a neat tool and I can see this being a useful teaching platform, especially if there's scope to scale it up (e.g., other scripts, other samples).

This is great fun -- thanks for putting this together! I think it would help to disambiguate letters if they were presented in context, perhaps with the rest of the word grayed out. It's also more authentic as an exercise that way -- how often do we only transcribe a single letter in isolation?

#earlymodern out December at last such a privilege to work with three distinguished scholars of early modern women’s writing

Hey @lahri.bsky.social is this the same for you if you try to access anything other than the Wayback Machine on a campus machine (i.e., not eduroam)?

Shocked to find that my institution has blocked access to the @archive.org this morning. Lodging an IT ticket and very, very curious to know the justification. @archive.org is essential for my research and teaching, and I cannot be the only person at @openresleeds.bsky.social affected by this.

Very proud of my chapter with @effectdefective.bsky.social on "Genre" for the Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and #earlymodern Authorship, out today! global.oup.com/academic/pro... Computational methods and book history goodness!

Shakespeare Special issue on ‘Shakespeare in Asian Currents’, guest edited by Bi-qi Beatrice Lei and Judy Celine Ick. Volume 21, Issue 3 of Shakespeare

New special issue, "Shakespeare in Asian Currents" now available, with criticism, performance, and a roundtable on future directions! #earlymodern #shakespeare www.tandfonline.com/toc/rshk20/c...

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I'd have thought it was much earlier, personally. Does Aristotle have anything to say about this?

Likewise!

Sad to have missed #RenSoc25, but had a great time at #ANZSA25 ^_^

Looks good, Doug!

Off to Brisbane for the ANZSA conference and then on to Auckland, where I'm honoured to be giving the 2025 Alice Griffin Shakespeare Lecture! 😁 #earlymodern #escapingtheheat

Latest issue of the Journal of Marlowe Studies now out! #earlymodern journals.shu.ac.uk/index.php/Ma...

Who called Shakespeare ‘upstart crow’? Our study points to his co-author, Thomas Nashe Perhaps he intended to denigrate Shakespeare as a jack-of-all-trades player-turned-playwright who should have stuck to acting.

Striking while the iron is hot, we wrote a piece for The Conversation #earlymodern theconversation.com/who-called-s...

@chrisvvarren.bsky.social ?

'Upstart Crow' - who insulted Shakespeare, and why? New research has cast fresh doubt on the origins of one of the most famous insults aimed at William Shakespeare, pointing the finger at a friend of the Bard.

Of interest to #earlymodern folks -- new research shredding light on the insult on Shakespeare as an "upstart crow" www.leeds.ac.uk/main-index/n...

Plus open-topic articles by Kelsey Ridge, Philip Gilreath, Rajat Varma, @domlovascio.bsky.social and @matthewsteggle.bsky.social , as well as some performance and book reviews.

Special section includes contributions by Michael Albright, @claireghansen.bsky.social and Brid Phillips, Angus Gowland, Rachel Robinson, and Rebecca Olson.

Shakespeare Volume 21, Issue 2 of Shakespeare

Hey #earlymodern folks! Latest issue of *Shakespeare* just out, with a special section on 'Health and Wellbeing' guest-edited by Joan Fitzpatrick. www.tandfonline.com/toc/rshk20/2...