Not exactly. More like an alien really. I stayed in a pub in the village, but we did get one invite to dinner at the big house which required a tie. It was 1986 so i was doing sql databases on an ibm pc....
I also catalogued the library at holkham ! But by the time i got there (c. 1989) the cokes had sold all the mss.
Digital Lacy now has 141 titles, the latest being H T Craven's "Miriam's Crime" Premiered at the Strand in 1863, this features a comic Irishman, a drunken lawyer, and a singularly wet heroine. Also much inheritance-shenanigan. See the full list at lb42.github.io/Lacy/report....
Cote dor used to be my goto fr chocbar but no more.
Hmmm yes i think i am mis remembering an account of the us case against them. Wikipedia entry suggests they are an upright dutch well intentioned bunch of thieving capitalist pigs after all. So my apologies to everyone.
Well quite. Hence the google analogy.
Mondelez mle google - ubiquitous but evil
Tsk tsk. This a mondelez product.
Was it ever?
‘No wonder I got drunk that night. I’d been Chaucer for a week!’
- my article on Kipling’s Dayspring Mishandled, his entertaining and peculiar account of a Chaucerian forgery, is out now with the Review of English Studies! I absolutely *loved* working on this.
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Foundational prediction for the TEI. You need to search for the OUCS annual reports on the Wayback machine these days, alas.
(First official reference to the TEI in OUCS history)
"Two members of staff are participating in a major international initiative on standards for encoding of texts for scholarly purposes. This project has received funding from sources in the United States until August 1990, but is very likely to continue beyond that date."
--a bent servant, a villainous seducer, an unprotected maiden, and an implausibly penitent reformed Irish rake. Also included a conflagration and an honest English mercer. Check out lb42.github.io/Lacy/L1143.h... : you know you want to
This week's additions to Digital Lacy include an 1846 version of a French adaptation of Richardson's unreadable English novel "Clarissa Harlowe". Credited to Lacy and his in-house hack John Courtney, it reduces the 5 vols of the original to a routine 3 act melodrama by focussing on the essentials +
"This is a CORE COMPONENT of the pudding ..." [this is amazing content, precisely what the internet should be for, putting the rest of us to shame] [mmmm, pudding]
More fun with geminipro foxglove.hypotheses.org/1221
The Call for Papers for the #TEI 2026 Annual Meeting is out! See tei2026.tei-c.org/CFP.html for details. The submission deadline is February 19th.
reminder to donate to wikipedia if you’re able to x
Or (even better) this article www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2...
See also the wikipedia entry for john parry!
Like this
Not sure if angus wilsons 1970 volume called the dickens world counts as scholarly, but it does have facing p 173 a reproduction of john parrys 1835 painting a london street scene. Which matches yr desceiption.
Yes, tho i am usually satisfied if wikipedia gives the same explanation (which is presumably where gemini found it anyways)
As i truck through yet another 19th c farce full of obscure contemporary references i am delighted to find that gemini pro seems to provide plausible explanations for 75% of them.
Brown was one of the birthplaces of the TEI and i visited it often in the 90s.it seemed to me to be one of the most civilised us campuses. This news ls correspondingly painful.
Reminds me of EBTI
Pleased as Punch to see that our retrospective of the "Pictorial Punch - Treasures from the Archives" study day we held at the @britishlibrary.bsky.social last month is now online on @rs4vp.org's website! Wonderful speakers, keynotes and audience. Thank you all!
An encounter with Gemini Pro foxglove.hypotheses.org/1216
Wonder how much it went for
