Notes from the field: New Work Using the London Stage Database
We heard about so much exciting research at this year's ASECS conference that we can't help but want to share.
Check out our latest blog post for a sneak peak into some of the projects currently putting the LSDB to use: blogs.uoregon.edu/londonstage/...
#digitalhumanities #18thc #theaterhistory
Portrait of Johan Henric Kellgren (1751-1795) / Wikimedia Commons
OTD (231 years ago): date of death of Johan Henric Kellgren (1751-1795).
Featured in the #RomanticPeriodPoetryArchive:
www.romanticperiodpoetry.org/authors/
#poetry #DH #Romanticism #19thC #OTD
Portrait of George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824) / Wikimedia Commons
On this date 202 years ago, George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824) died this day.
Poetry available in the #RomanticPeriodPoetryArchive:
www.romanticperiodpoetry.org/authors/
#poetry #DH #Romanticism #19thC #OTD
BARS Research and Innovation Event: Applying for Funding
Reminder: THIS MONDAY 20 April 2026, 10am-1pm UK time via Zoom
Join us: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
A number of other major journalism organizations have also recently moved to restrict the Wayback Machine from archiving their stories, including The New York Times. According to analysis by the artificial-intelligence-detection startup Originality AI, 23 major news sites are currently blocking ia_archiverbot, the web crawler commonly used by the Internet Archive for the Wayback project. The social platform Reddit is too. Other outlets are limiting the project in different ways: The Guardian does not block the crawler, but it excludes its content from the Internet Archive API and filters out articles from the Wayback Machine interface, which makes it harder for regular people to access archived versions of its articles.
The Internet's Most Powerful Archiving Tool Is in Peril www.wired.com/story/the-in...
The Wayback Machine web.archive.org
#InternetArchive #webarchiving #openweb
Screenshot of a detail of the interactive map of Thomas Gray's correspondence
Delighted to announce the Thomas Gray Archive Spring 2026 update. Read all about our recent work at the #ThomasGrayArchive:
www.thomasgray.org/about/histor...
#c18th #correspondence #map #letters #findingaid #ThomasGray #poetry #DigitalHumanities
Portrait of Jane Taylor (1783-1824) / Wikimedia Commons
On this date 202 years ago, Jane Taylor (1783-1824) died this day.
Poetry available in the #RomanticPeriodPoetryArchive:
www.romanticperiodpoetry.org/authors/
#poetry #DH #Romanticism #19thC #OTD
Thomas Percy (1729-1811) / © National Portrait Gallery, London
This day 297 years ago: Thomas Percy (1729-1811) born this day.
Poems are included in the #EighteenthCenturyPoetryArchive:
www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/authors/pers00056.shtml
#c18th #poetry #DH #OTD
Portrait of Erik Gustaf Geijer (1783-1847) / Wikimedia Commons
OTD (179 years ago): Erik Gustaf Geijer (1783-1847) died this day.
Poetry available in the #RomanticPeriodPoetryArchive:
www.romanticperiodpoetry.org/authors/
#poetry #DH #Romanticism #19thC #OTD
Here revel happy man, here taste the fruit,
That springs from mutual love, desire untam'd;
And every feeling in its highest tone.
—"Mrs. B-kl-y, No. 81, Charlotte-Street." (Harris's List, 1786, p. 32: harrisslist.prisms.digital/editions.htm...)
To live and not to love, is scarcely life,
To love and unenjoy'd, that love to feel,
Is worse than death; give me ye gentle pow'rs
That o'er veneral rites haply preside,
Gay health, and beauty's bloom, as now unsoil'd;
And whilst kind nature thus informs the sense,
Gutted to be missing Rivka Swenson’s #ASECS2026 paper on the lyric in Harris’s List of Covent Garden Ladies. I’ve coincidentally been thinking quite a bit about the verse in Harris’s List lately while putting together harrisslist.prisms.digital
#c18th #poetry #HarrissList @asecsoffice.bsky.social
Christopher Smart (1722-1771) / © National Portrait Gallery, London
This day 304 years ago: Christopher Smart (1722-1771)’s birth date.
Poems are included in the #EighteenthCenturyPoetryArchive:
www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/authors/pers00254.shtml
#c18th #poetry #DH #OTD
I've had mixed success playing the Ultima series on the IA's software pages (the sound never seems to work), but it's wonderful to know these treasures are being preserved as playable works of art for future generations.
Indeed. I blame an early obsession with Ultima and Infocom for my decisions to study English and become a Digital Humanist.
No regrets about the hundreds of hours spent in Ultima 4 and beyond...
Experiencing FOMO from afar thanks to #ASECS2026: such an impressive range of #c18th #poetry papers, from Behn, Elizabeth Carter, and Phillis Wheatley to Erasmus Darwin, Coleridge, Ann Plato, and Iain Mac Mhurchaidh, plus Faustina Maratti and Nguyễn Du for good measure.
@asecsoffice.bsky.social
William Markham (1719-1807) / © National Portrait Gallery, London
OTD (307 years ago): birth of William Markham (1719-1807).
Poems are included in the #EighteenthCenturyPoetryArchive:
www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/authors/pers00117.shtml
#c18th #poetry #DH #OTD
BARS 2026 Conference Registration now OPEN!
We are pleased to announce that registration for the 2026 BARS Conference, Romantic Retrospection, hosted by the University of Birmingham, is now open.
Portrait of Dositej Obradović (1742-1811) / Wikimedia Commons
Portrait of William Lisle Bowles (1762-1850) / Wikimedia Commons
OTD, Dositej Obradović (1742-1811) and William Lisle Bowles (1762-1850) died this day.
Poems are included in the #RomanticPeriodPoetryArchive:
https://www.romanticperiodpoetry.org/
#poetry #DH #Romanticism #19thC #OTD
Portrait of Erik Johan Stagnelius (1793-1823) / Wikimedia Commons
Portrait of Juliusz Słowacki (1809-1849) / Wikimedia Commons
On this day, Erik Johan Stagnelius (1793-1823) and Juliusz Słowacki (1809-1849) died this day.
Poems appear in the #RomanticPeriodPoetryArchive:
https://www.romanticperiodpoetry.org/
#poetry #DH #Romanticism #19thC #OTD
Screenshot of the RPPA homepage
The #RomanticPeriodPoetryArchive (RPPA) is a collaborative platform for annotations, translations, & thematic groupings of texts in a shared, citable space.
📣 Join the community of Romanticism scholars who put Global Romanticism on the map: www.romanticperiodpoetry.org
#Romanticism #poetry #19thC
Designs by Mr. R. Bentley for Six Poems by Mr. T. Gray (1753)
OTD (273 years ago): Designs by Mr. R. Bentley for Six Poems by Mr. T. Gray (1753), the first authorized collected edition of Gray's poetry, published by Robert Dodsley.
Find out more in the #ThomasGrayArchive:
www.thomasgray.org/texts/diglib...
#c18th #poetry #DH #ThomasGray #OnThisDay #OTD
Screenshot of 4 editions of Harris's List side-by-side in the archive's IIIF viewer
Halfway there! 🎉 The #HarrissListDigitalArchive project has reached its midpoint: 9 of the 18 surviving editions of Harris’s List of #CoventGardenLadies are now available for data exploration (tabular analysis, mapping, and network visualisation):
harrisslist.prisms.digital
#c18th #HarrissList
Portrait of Walt Whitman (1819-1892) / Wikimedia Commons
On this date 134 years ago, Walt Whitman (1819-1892)’s death date.
Poems appear in the #RomanticPeriodPoetryArchive:
www.romanticperiodpoetry.org/authors/
#c19th #poetry #DH #Romanticism #19thC #OnThisDay #OTD
Portrait of Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von (Novalis) Hardenberg (1772-1801) / Wikimedia Commons
Portrait of Anna Seward (1747-1809) / Wikimedia Commons
Portrait of Friederike Brun (1765-1835) / Wikimedia Commons
On this day, death of Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von (Novalis) Hardenberg (1772-1801), Anna Seward (1747-1809), and Friederike Brun (1765-1835).
Poetry available in the #RomanticPeriodPoetryArchive:
https://www.romanticperiodpoetry.org/
#c19th #poetry #DH #Romanticism #19thC #OnThisDay #OTD
Portrait of Mary Tighe (1772-1810) / Wikimedia Commons
Portrait of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) / Wikimedia Commons
OTD, death of Mary Tighe (1772-1810) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882).
Poems appear in the #RomanticPeriodPoetryArchive:
https://www.romanticperiodpoetry.org/
#c19th #poetry #DH #Romanticism #19thC #OnThisDay #OTD