Digital Lacy now has 141 titles, the latest being H T Craven's "Miriam's Crime" Premiered at the Strand in 1863, this features a comic Irishman, a drunken lawyer, and a singularly wet heroine. Also much inheritance-shenanigan. See the full list at lb42.github.io/Lacy/report....

‘No wonder I got drunk that night. I’d been Chaucer for a week!’ - my article on Kipling’s Dayspring Mishandled, his entertaining and peculiar account of a Chaucerian forgery, is out now with the Review of English Studies! I absolutely *loved* working on this. academic.oup.com/res/advance-...

"Two members of staff are participating in a major international initiative on standards for encoding of texts for scholarly purposes. This project has received funding from sources in the United States until August 1990, but is very likely to continue beyond that date."

This week's additions to Digital Lacy include an 1846 version of a French adaptation of Richardson's unreadable English novel "Clarissa Harlowe". Credited to Lacy and his in-house hack John Courtney, it reduces the 5 vols of the original to a routine 3 act melodrama by focussing on the essentials +

"This is a CORE COMPONENT of the pudding ..." [this is amazing content, precisely what the internet should be for, putting the rest of us to shame] [mmmm, pudding]

More fun with geminipro foxglove.hypotheses.org/1221

The Call for Papers for the #TEI 2026 Annual Meeting is out! See tei2026.tei-c.org/CFP.html for details. The submission deadline is February 19th.

reminder to donate to wikipedia if you’re able to x

Pleased as Punch to see that our retrospective of the "Pictorial Punch - Treasures from the Archives" study day we held at the @britishlibrary.bsky.social last month is now online on @rs4vp.org's website! Wonderful speakers, keynotes and audience. Thank you all!

An encounter with Gemini Pro foxglove.hypotheses.org/1216

Did some more bloggage after a long gap. Representativeness and how to check it. Foxglove. Consulté le 9 octobre 2025 à l’adresse foxglove.hypotheses.org/1104

Finding a few good places to start www.maastrichtdiplomat.org/post/pulping...

But after the depressing loss of Rayner last week, it is very pleasing to see the eminently sensible loss of Mandelson this week.

Another blog update happened foxglove.hypotheses.org

Hi #DH2025, I miss you all. Thanks to everyone skeeting for those of us who have to follow along from afar because life.

This is the last thing the BBC needs

I wrote a blog entry. I know, i am so old school. Http://foxglove.hypotheses.org

my plan to move to bluesky to get away from politics seems to be having limited success.

Ok, so this is cool: blog.startifact.com/posts/xee/. Might be the thing that gets me to learn Rust.

Where can you find a dial telephone sculpture on a building? One of a number of relics of 1930s technology at the Faraday Building of Queen Victoria Street from my post at alondoninheritance.com/london-stree...

On the queue to see Jazz Emu tonight, I was distracted by the people behind me talking about Jazz Emoo. Mr Emu had the yod-ful pronunciation, though, so phonetic identity crisis averted. In case you don't know @thejazzemu.bsky.social, you might enjoy: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJ69...

White House reports AP will not be invited to its sleepover where all the other press agencies will be playing truth or dare and talking about cute boys.

@flannobriensoc.bsky.social this title maybe of interest : edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-alt...

I missed that Jules Feiffer died this week. Thank you, Mr. Feiffer.

I just published my annual report on life with me at lb42.github.io/Diary ... should get rid of some of my weirdo followers.

Spent most of the so-called holiday period trying to track down online biographical trivia for a bunch of 19th c playwrights, with moderate success. 30 out of 300 remain entirely elusive though. Full disclosure at foxglove.hypotheses.org/994 -- do get in touch if you can fill any gaps

I’m gonna spend 2025 reading books and thinking about them.

There are over 1,000 copies of Eastgate's most renowned "serious" hypertexts—e.g. Patchwork Girl and Afternoon—in libraries throughout the world. Most of them are in circulation (as opposed to Special Collections). But guess what? Unless you have Windows XP or a circa 2005 Mac, you can't read them.

Call for Participants: Volunteer Readers for a Study of Serial Form in Victorian Novels (Deadline: 6/30/25) bit.ly/3VEqMkh

Posted this just yesterday: What do you call a wizard who walks everywhere on bare feet, has poor bone density and really bad breath? A super calloused fragile mystic hexed by halitosis

My #dayofdh2024 started with me deciding to give up on sparql for a bit, achieving something promising with ceteicean, and then sinking into a boggy morass of javascript syntax.

First rule of Polite Club: Please don’t talk about Polite Club. Many thanks in advance and enjoy the rest of your day.

As i approach my next birthday i realise that the number of people who might appreciate the #dadjoke "its a record" is fast dwindling away

"She added town council staff would be assessing whether it might be possible to repair the broken gravestone." > the reasoning presumably being that people had come previously to see the REAL fake gravestone, so a replacement would be imposture. such is the weirdness of literary tourism.

Have you seen these dramatists? A plea for help... foxglove.hypotheses.org/957

Such a cool article about Francis Williams in a recent LRB (@lrbbookshop.bsky.social) - focused on this fascinating portrait. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

For lovers of snow ❄️ I give you the greatest snow ball fight in history. In 1854 300 people including stock brokers went into snowy battle at Liverpool’s Exhange. The Liverpool Mercury reported “Hats flew away, By the force of the ball, From heads that were grey, Or with no hair at all”.

Today in relatable science: Gulls making a mysterious daily trip that turned out to be to a potato chip factory

Happy Fenton 13th anniversary to those of you celebrate youtu.be/3GRSbr0EYYU

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I grew up with this and other George Mikes books on the family shelves. My dad loved them I suspect because they were in fact rather flattering. But now I'm writing about how he was interned as an enemy alien on the Isle of Man in 1940 and I don't think I'll ever look at them in the same way again

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I have been doing data laundry for WEEKS. Check my update on the lacy blog at foxglove.hypotheses.org/865

Do not go gentle into that good night

Today however the train is arriving 25 mins late ... And not for the first time

Did some more #victoriantheatre research and blogged about it at foxglove.hypotheses.org/814