Davy Notebooks Project Transcribe-a-thon, BSLS Conference (April 2022)

Join us for the Davy Notebooks Project's BSLS Conference in-person transcribe-a-thon!

Friends' Meeting House

If you&#x27;re attending the British Society for Literature and Science (BSLS) Conference, join us on Saturday 9 April, 11am-12.30pm for an in-person <a href="https://wp.lancs.ac.uk/davynotebooks/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Davy Notebooks Project</a> transcribe-a-thon! We have 20 places available - please reserve yours today. The event will be held in Room G3 of the conference venue.Over the course of this one-and-a-half-hour event, you&#x27;ll hear more about the project from <a href="https://wp.lancs.ac.uk/davynotebooks/the-project-team/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">the team</a> (including Professors Sharon Ruston and Frank James) and have the opportunity to contribute transcriptions of a previously untranscribed Davy notebook. This is an excellent opportunity to acquire or develop skills to read and transcribe early nineteenth-century manuscripts. We&#x27;ll also have a limited number of print copies of the <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/yamb20/66/2-3?nav=tocList" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Ambix special issue &#x27;New Studies on Humphry Davy&#x27; (2019)</a> to give away on the day, on a first-come-first-served basis.No prior experience or preparation is necessary, and questions/discussion will, of course, be very warmly welcomed. We hope to see you there! Please note that all attendees must be BSLS Conference delegates, and that you&#x27;ll need to bring your own laptop to participate.If you have any questions, please write to us at davynotebooks at lancaster dot ac dot uk.Our Zooniverse project page is here: <a href="https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/humphrydavy/davy-notebooks-project" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/humphrydavy/davy-notebooks-project</a>#transcribedavy<a href="https://wp.lancs.ac.uk/davynotebooks/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">wp.lancs.ac.uk/davynotebooks</a>

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