Tag Archives: Mary Russell Mitford

Digital Mitford Coding School: June 22 – 26, 2022

Please join us as we convene in person, June 22 – 26, 2022 in Erie, PA for the Eighth Digital Mitford Coding School! Register here: https://behrend.psu.edu/digitalmitford Digital Mitford’s Coding School is distinctive: you learn methods of text encoding and their applications in Digital Humanities, from the context of an active, ongoing digital edition project.

Digital Mitford Coding School, June 25-27, 2016

We invite you to join members of the Digital Mitford project team from Saturday June 25 through Monday June 27, 2016 for the Fourth Annual Workshop Series and Coding School, hosted by the newly established Center for the Digital Text at the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg.

from 900 to 1425 xml:ids: A Mitfordian milestone

The Digital Mitford team coordinated a massive effort last fall to complete a burst of coding, in particular to finish up transcriptions of assigned letters and to research and develop new prosopography entries–that is, entries on our lists of Named Entities: people (and fictional characters), organizations, places (and fictional places), books, serial publications, works of […]

Eric Hood — Introduction

Hi, this is my second year on the project.  Along with letters, I’ve been working on the drama, Rienzi (1828). During this process I have become well-versed in the joys and perils of versioning.  I look forward to meeting and working with you all.  

Digital Mitford 2014 Poster

possibly also a T-Shirt design? Created by Greg Bondar

Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd: A member of the “Q” Continuum?

Here’s a rather impressive sight of Thomas Noon Talfourd as painted by Henry William Pickersgill (National Portrait Gallery number 417), in which perhaps he shares at least a passing resemblance to “the Q” of Star Trek: Talfourd was a friend and very frequent correspondent of Mitford’s and a native of Reading, Berkshire, as well as […]

Digital Mitford Annual June Workshop Set: June 2, 3, and 4, 2014

We are calling for participants to join the Digital Mitford: the Mary Russell Mitford Archive, at http://mitford.pitt.edu. If you are interested in learning TEI coding and participating in a large-scale digital archive project now well underway, we are happy to orient you to the project as part of our June workshop series. We are hosting our […]

Working List of Archives

Working List of Archives New site feature for the Digital Mitford: a working list of archives holding Mitford papers, including links to each collection’s catalog.

Digital Mitford Site Update, Letter Exhibit, and Twitter Feed

Digital Mitford Site Update, Letter Exhibit, and Twitter Feed I’ve made some major updates to the Digital Mitford site this weekend, including an exhibit on our editing of Mitford’s letters, much more detail on our editing and coding methods, and new orientation materials that we’ll be using with our student assistants and new editors joining […]

Intro post to HASTAC

Intro post to HASTAC Here’s a post wherein I introduce our project to the HASTAC community, and Feminist Scholars Digital Workshop within it.