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Sunday, April 30, 2006

British History Online

Via Natalie Bennett at Philobiblon:

British History Online has got a further tranche of money from the Andrew W Mellon Foundation. From an email source (doesn’t seem to be online):
“Phase II of the project, from 1 August 2006, will see the expansion of the British History Online digital library to include the National Archives Calendars of State Papers, Domestic (1547-1704, 1760-75), a further 40 volumes of the Victoria County History and a range of sources for the social, administrative, economic and political history of Britain.”

This is an incredible site, but to date it hasn't been as good on our period as it could be. The addition of the CSP Dom for 1547-1704 will be a major improvement. Great news.

At 4/30/2006 02:12:00 PM, Simplicius wrote…

Yippee!
At 4/30/2006 05:49:00 PM, Greenwit wrote…

Hmmm... Grant-writing for research trips to libraries will come more and more to rely entirely on the pressing need to "examine original copies of documents for marginalia and other markings obscured by the digitization process."
At 4/30/2006 11:13:00 PM, Inkhorn wrote…

Watermarks. I think that's the only thing left.
At 4/30/2006 11:24:00 PM, Simplicius wrote…

Uninked letters, too.

Scribble some marginalia

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