British Virginia

Digital publisher of colonial documents on the falls of the James/Powhatan River.

[Georgianna Ziegler @EMHerstory]

Links to all 11 #EstherInglis MSS at
@EdUniMainLib and @natlibscot, plus one
@univofstandrews are now easily accessible via this page: https://t.co/uRlE4GVLiV Lots of hard work - congratulations #conservation & #photography teams!

[Grace Ioppolo, FSA @ProfShakespeare]

Very exciting news:

CELM, my husband Dr Peter Beal’s digital Catalogue of Early Modern English Manuscripts from 1450-1700, has moved to the @FolgerLibrary and will be directed by Dr Heather Wolfe, with whom Peter and I have collaborated for years. https://t.co/JqQiRGjwI7

[Library of Virginia @LibraryofVA]

LVA has archived David Rawson’s Index of Virginia Printing! Use this online resource containing 1000s of entries on Virginia’s earliest #printers & #publications by going to https://t.co/kkAfT3lULZ
Image - engraving from the Library's Print collection.
#WorldPressFreedomDay

[Westminster Abbey @wabbey]

This rare handwritten manuscript of The Courtier's Library by priest and poet John Donne was found in our archives in 2017. The satire was circulated privately by Donne to friends in the early 1600s, its content too radical to publish. Find out more ⤵️

#Archive30 #HiddenHistories

[Library of Virginia @LibraryofVA]

Nearly 1,700 newly digitized records have just been added to LVA’s African American records database, #VaUntold! This material includes records from the Richmond City Hustings Court, which we processed and indexed thanks to an @NHPRC grant. Learn more at https://t.co/oJ8GeG82J6

[Secretary Deb Haaland @SecDebHaaland]

I was honored to spend time with Tribal leaders from across Virginia today. Though federal recognition for most of these Tribes is recent, they have diligently stewarded their ancestral homelands and maintained their cultures and languages for millennia.

[Library of Virginia @LibraryofVA]

Announcing a new collection available from Virginia Untold: The #AfricanAmerican Narrative just in time for #BlackHistoryMonth! 462 bills of sale & deeds from the City of #Richmond have been digitized. Most include full transcriptions.
Learn more at https://t.co/np3bcR8X1N

[Library of Virginia @LibraryofVA]

TONIGHT! Making #History with LVA - Online via Zoom at 5:30pm. Join us for a virtual #volunteer session to learn how you can help make historical documents more searchable & usable for researchers. Free. Register at https://t.co/nrax6QMhhc #transcribe #Virginiahistory

[VCU Cabell Library @VCUCabell]

We're hiring! Check out these opportunities to work with us, including two metatdata librarian jobs in Cabell Library and the asst director and head, Research and Education in the Health Sciences Library. https://t.co/O5z34tzTn8

[British Virginia @BritishVirginia]

@GCoatalen @EMRecipesOnline juice of

[EMROC @EMRecipesOnline]

Joining in #emroctranscribes today? Quick reminder to sign up for pages here: https://t.co/3wYKTtVICJ. Helps to keep everyone on track and avoiding tripping over each other in the text...

[British Virginia @BritishVirginia]

@jdmccafferty @BurtonsAnatomy @rhetorician h/t @letterlocking (See Salisbury Cathedral Library MS IV/3/1 https://t.co/57pF5hqbW3)

[ Claire Boardman @boardman_claire]

Millions of archived VOC documents now searchable online, including slavery records ... From Wednesday, five million scanned documents from the archives of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) will be digitally searchable https://t.co/LWAFJ7cmLX

[British Virginia @BritishVirginia]

@GeorginaEMW @letterlocking Something like this must happen in A.S. Byatt's Possession.

[Library of Virginia @LibraryofVA]

Make History with LVA by #volunteering to #transcribe historic documents online - Wed, Oct 11 5:30pm - 7:30pm. Register for this free Zoom crowdsourcing fun at https://t.co/przj6r5IK6

[Beinecke Library @BeineckeLibrary]

Ghosts of 1619
in the Langston Hughes Papers https://t.co/NGHxzkmxDi

[State Library of NSW @statelibrarynsw]

This #IndigenousPeoplesDay, help transcribe vital NSW Aboriginal language material.

We’ve just released a wordlist compiled by Mitchell Librarian Ida Leeson in 1908 on our transcription platform.

Start transcribing via @_FromThePage_: https://t.co/tPVqeSfrVs

[British Virginia @BritishVirginia]

@roaringgirle @aarontpratt Looks like "Gower" at a glance, at least in some examples. Do you happen to have an examples of any other words in this hand that might feature any of the same letters?