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The Illustration Archive is the world’s largest searchable archive dedicated to historical book illustration: https://illustrationarchive.cf.ac.uk/. Account run by Prof Julia Thomas. Interested in the Victorians, word and image, digital humanities
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There are so many ways to use artificial intelligence (AI) in the humanities. This NEH-funded collaboration between the University of Wyoming and Cardiff University in Wales used AI to preserve more than 3,000 images of 22 medieval cathedrals at high resolutions. ow.ly/PS0T50V0qAB

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For those who may not yet have heard, our dear friend Brian Maidment passed away a little over a week ago. It is difficult to put into words how much he meant to our community, but @pritijoshi.bsky.social has paid him wonderful tribute here: rs4vp.org/in-memoriam-...

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This (typo) is literally the dream, not an inconvenience

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Jimmy Page's Zodiac Dining Table in his Arts & Crafts home, Tower House, London, designed by William Burges.

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🚀📈 Making Victorian visual culture searchable: Introducing an open-access and AI-powered dataset of 72,000 illustrations from the Illustrated London News (1842-1890). (w. Bethany Warner, @pfyfe.bsky.social and @bcgl.bsky.social) openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/articles/10....

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All our AI tools for searching the content of digitised image collections are free and available now via the website. Please use! findingaplace.org.uk?page_id=285

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Publication day! *Literary Illusions* is finally out!

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(1) On Virginia Woolf’s birthday, the strange tale of Barthes and Woolf… When Barthes published La Chambre claire in 1980, one of the photos was captioned, in English, with what appears to be a quotation from Woolf:

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For those interested in AI and historical images (and cathedrals), here is a lovely exhibition of the work we’ve been doing with @lampallib.bsky.social shorturl.at/0gTgn

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My book, Fiction on the Page in Nineteenth-Century Magazines, is out now with Oxford University Press! academic.oup.com/book/58989 It’s a book about page fillers, product placement, and strange hybrid fiction. It asks how the page of the magazine became a spur for new, odd genres.

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Everyone has to see a ghost on Christmas Eve. Here’s one, just in case. From The Ingoldsby Legends (designed by John Leech). Available on The Illustration Archive

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Mr Pickwick under the mistletoe (Phiz) farm8.staticflickr.com/7390/1128770...

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Contrary to popular mythology, there were quite a few red-robed Father Christmases pre-Coca Cola. This one is from 1888. illustrationarchive.cf.ac.uk/image/11195180743

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One for the publication day of Dickens's A Christmas Carol: 'The Last of the Spirits - A Scene from A Christmas Carol at the Adelphi Theatre', published in The Pictorial Times, 2 March 1844.

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Curran Fellowships are now open for applications (due Jan 15, letters Jan 22), and they can be a big help to anyone researching any aspect of the 19th-c. British press. Topics pursued by past winners have ranged far and wide: rs4vp.org/awards/curra... Details here: rs4vp.org/awards/curra... #19th

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The Curious Case of Mr. and Mrs. Holmes: jvc.oup.com/2022/09/02/t...

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Dear followers, old and new. Here is one of my favourite illustrations (by Frederick Sandys). I’m interested in all things Victorian, books, pictures — and (life after) death/consciousness

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Fabulous illustration for one of the most haunting figures in European folklore. He plays a very scary role in the book I'm currently rereading and working on: Maggie Stiefvater's Ballad. 'Herne the Hunter' English folklore ghost with hounds and owl, by George Cruikshank, 1843.

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