Workshop: READing and Transkribing handwritten documents – 24 January 2019
We are delighted to announce our first skills training workshop this year:The Recognition and Enrichment of Archival Documents (READ) project aims to make archival material more accessible by training computers to read handwritten historical manuscripts. Join Dr...
Songs about letters
We are pleased to share our very own playlist of songs about letters on Spotify.The playlist was crowdsourced on Twitter, with songs proposed by @studentfriendsw @kswilkinson1 @rjsleven @NoahMoxham @gordontoon @alicemarples @scadhu @OscarSeip @katharinakeim...
Seminar: Literary letters, 5 December 2018
Please join us for our second seminar of the semester, featuring two twenty-minute presentations and discussion.Wednesday 5 December, 3pm - 4.30pm Samuel Alexander Building (University of Manchester, Oxford Road Campus), A202Lucy Burns (English, American Studies, and...
Remembering Armistice Day 1918
One hundred years ago today, on 11 November 1918, guns on the Western Front and other theatres of war fell silent. Fighting continued right up to the agreed ceasefire at 11.00 GMT, and it is estimated that over 10,000 men were killed, wounded or went missing on the...
Seminar: Pictures and postcards: Images and letters
We are delighted to announce our first seminar of the semester, featuring two twenty minute papers and discussion. 8 November 2018, 5pm - 6.30pm, The Christie Room, The John Rylands Library Dr Luke Uglow (Art History, Manchester): 'Drawing letters: Ruskin at the...
A conference on ancient philosophical letters
At the beginning of September, following the restarting of the Ancient Letters Collection project at Manchester, the department hosted a two-day conference on ancient Philosophical Letters. The full programme can be found here. The conference featured scholars with a...
The fragmented mind: Musgrave Kinley outsider art works on tour at the MAC, Belfast
A post via our colleagues at the Whitworth about an exhibition that includes Lindsay Seers' fascinating The Letter Paintings. You can read more about Seers' Letter Paintings on the artist's website Related Contact Us +44 (0) 161...
Letterlocking workshop – 14 June – The John Rylands Library – places available
This is a practical workshop, led by Jana Dambrogio and Daniel Starza Smith that explores the historical practice of letterlocking. They explain:Letterlocking refers to the technology of folding and securing an epistolary writing substrate to function as its own...
Event report: Digital approaches to text editing – 15 May 2018
Our second workshop of this semester recently took place in partnership with DH@Manchester, as part of Digital Humanities Week (the original date for this workshop was in March but snow necessitated rescheduling).The afternoon workshop showcased three areas of digital...
Rescheduled: Digital Humanities approaches to text editing, 15 May 2018
This workshop was originally due to take place on 2 March, but was rescheduled due to inclement weather. The programme and venue remain the same. If you had signed up to the previous 2 March date, and have already been in touch to confirm you can attend on 15 May,...
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