Image shows detail from a handwritten letter by Edward Thomas to his friend and fellow poet, Gordon Bottomley. The text is as follows: Rose Acre, Bearsted, Nr. Maidstone 17.X.1902 Dear Gordon Bottomley, I have just received your letter: I cannot thank you for it more plainly than by saying that I can write back as easily as wall makes an echo. But I am in the midst of a heavy piece of work [reviewing] and must not spend any time on your letter and your book, though my thoughts are there – I opened the play and saw …Past where the imaged man shakes like a soul Pausing in death between two unknown worlds

It’s #TranscriptionTuesday! Our volunteers are currently working their way through a collection of letters from #EdwardThomas to his friend and fellow poet, #GordonBottomley. Get in touch if you’d like to join our group – we have some exciting collections on the way! #warpoets #WWI

Transcription Tuesday everyone!
Can you palaeography lovers help us out with this word? It should be a duration (of illness) - usually along the lines of 3 months, 4 years, instantaneous etc. Could be 'unknown' but we have to squint reeeaalllyy hard! What do you think?

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Image shows detail of a page of handwriting from a holiday diary written by Georgiana Marcia Rolls describing a visit to the Caledonian Canal. The full diary “Tour of Scotland on board the Fair Flirt [1851]” is part of the Rolls Family Archives, held at Gwent Archives.

Can’t stop sorry, it’s 1851 and we’re on board the "Fair Flirt" with Georgiana Rolls on tour in Scotland and just can’t get over the wonder of the #CaledonianCanal!
All via the magic of #transcription of course 😉 @gwentarchives.bsky.social #TranscriptionTuesday

She writes... “Wednesday 17th, passed through the Straits of Messina at 6 a.m. at the entrance are the much dreaded Rocks of Scylla & Charybdis”
🐬🐺🐬🐺🐬🐺 "Charybdis is represented in Homer’s Odyssey as a mountain with a Wolf’s body & Dolphin's tail...” #TranscriptionTuesday

Image shows double page of handwritten holiday diary by Georgiana Marcia Rolls. This entry reports on passing through the Straits of Messina in 1886. The page also contains pen and ink illustrations of the Rocks of Scylla & Charybdis, The Faro lighthouse and Stromboli. This diary is part of the Rolls Family Archive, held at Gwent Archives.

Our volunteers are currently transcribing the holiday diaries of British socialite, Georgiana Rolls, and by gum did she travel! Here’s a lovely, illustrated entry from on board the Santa Maria as it toured through Italy in 1886 #TranscriptionTuesday

Image shows double page of Jack Roberts’s notebook written whilst he was at the International Brigade Officers' Training School, Tarrazona, Spain. This page contains handwritten notes on “night operations”. This notebook is part of the Richard Burton Archives, held at Swansea University, specifically the South Wales Coalfield Collection, containing significant material relating to the Spanish Civil War and the part played by Welsh volunteers.

Our volunteers are currently transcribing a notebook written by Jack Roberts in 1937, whilst at the International Brigade Officers' Training School, Tarrazona, Spain #TranscriptionTuesday @archpbu.bsky.social @uwtsd.bsky.social @glamarchives.bsky.social @gwentarchives.bsky.social
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Image shows detail of a page from one of the Ysgol Rhydfelen scrapbooks containing a newspaper cutting from the Pontypridd Observer reporting on the school’s first Open Day during Education Week in November 23,1964. The full collection is held at Glamorgan Archives.

Our volunteers are working on a selection of scrapbooks compiled by Ysgol Rhydfelen, the first Welsh comprehensive school to open in south Wales in 1962.
According to the Pontypridd Observer, at the school’s first Open Day in 1964, parents were “well pleased” 😊
#TranscriptionTuesday

Kenny Barron on «On the Sunny Side of the Street!» WIP
#jazz #jazzguitar #transcriptiontuesday #guitar

When a beautifully ordered and alphabetised table is followed by a couple of pages titled 'These Songs Following were writt out After I Finished ye First Table'
We've all been there 🤦‍♀️ #transcriptiontuesday
- A collection of music books, MS.M.5.S, York Minster

Am determined to get a little bit of #TranscriptionTuesday by @wdytyamagazine done before the day is up! 🤞🏻