Philip Allfrey

Heraldist by night, web developer by day. Lapsed particle physicist. Occasional palaeographer. Accidental digital humanist. @[email protected]

[Philip Allfrey @dr_pda]

I am pleased to announce the launch of "What is #DigitalHumanities? The Album"
https://t.co/2GRE3J8ysH
This both answers the titular question through adapting the lyrics of popular songs, and acts as a provocation for considering what makes a project "Digital Humanities"

[Philip Allfrey @dr_pda]

@StarChamberEliz @VCH_London @LondonHistorian @TraceLarkhall Not sure about the location, but could he be a clerk of the pax (I.e. peace)? Perhaps this Richard Brown: https://t.co/hHgkGkXQKB

[Philip Allfrey @dr_pda]

@erinannmcc Absolutely! Will look forward to it.

[Philip Allfrey @dr_pda]

@erinannmcc Would you consider a remote post-doc? 😀

[Philip Allfrey @dr_pda]

@StarChamberEliz @sharon_howard Just about to say the same; St Augustine was on the corner of Old Change. There's a nice bio of what I presume is this Alexander at https://t.co/OZWyAI1T6S

[Philip Allfrey @dr_pda]

@erinannmcc Comhghairdeas ó chroí leat a Ollamh McCarthy!

[Philip Allfrey @dr_pda]

@meganlcook Coat of arms looks like that of the king of Portugal, in case that is relevant.

[Philip Allfrey @dr_pda]

@gifford_head Yes, I imagine precedent or prescription would be the main way to establish such a claim, in the absence of any written grant.

[Philip Allfrey @dr_pda]

@gifford_head I don't know.
In the case of heralds the letters patent appointing them do specifically grant them all fees, rights, perquisites etc belonging to the office, so if LGC or other great officers of state have a similar patent, then these customary perquisites may be enforceable.

[Philip Allfrey @dr_pda]

@gifford_head I think the velvet is a perquisite of office, which happens to be collected at the coronation, rather than being directly connected to grand sergeanty. The claim by the LGC in 1820 makes this a bit more explicit, see e.g. https://t.co/xre6gFWZPQ

[Philip Allfrey @dr_pda]

@bjirish There are some public models for Transkribus which are trained on Early Modern printed texts (https://t.co/pHKoZ3wjJw)
It would also be interesting to see what one could do with a model trained on EEBO plus the transcriptions from EEBO TCP...

[Philip Allfrey @dr_pda]

@alextheknitter Autosave FTW :)

[Philip Allfrey @dr_pda]

@alextheknitter Oh no!!!

[Philip Allfrey @dr_pda]

@legalstyleblog @burgonsoc Leftmost two are MVO and Royal Victorian Medal. I want to say the next two are the Golden and Diamond Jubilee medals, but I can't fully make out the ribbon colours from the photo.

[Philip Allfrey @dr_pda]

New song has dropped for "What is #DigitalHumanities? The Album":

Epistolary (networks)

Full announcement at https://t.co/9YSJ9DJPpq

Shout out to @Inge_vanVugt for her article on Magliabechi, which provided the perfect example of a broker.

[Philip Allfrey @dr_pda]

@meganlcook I am reminded of this comic:
https://t.co/vq6WlNEWZF

[Philip Allfrey @dr_pda]

If you trained a large language model on the masters dissertations from the Canon Law course at Cardiff University, would this be the canonical LLM LLM?

[Philip Allfrey @dr_pda]

@EJBrand Have you Huber's 1769 map of Vienna in a similar style?
https://t.co/GMwdE3oOIl

[David Rumsey @DavidRumseyMaps]

Largest 18th century scenographic or geometric city view - Joseph Huber's 1769 Vienna, Austria, in 24 sheets. 3.5x4.2 meters when joined. In tradition of Turgot's Paris of 1739. Incredible detail of city life and form. https://t.co/SlDeXUwnYO

[Philip Allfrey @dr_pda]

@burgonsoc A copy is preserved at the Internet Archive: https://t.co/sSs7Aepoer

[Philip Allfrey @dr_pda]

Voting in the 2022 #DHAwards is now open!

My website "What is #DigitalHumanities? The Album" is a nominee in "DH for fun"

If you like your DH set to popular music but still well footnoted  and encoded in TEI, then check it out (and maybe vote for it!)

https://t.co/CZbAXczSSy

[Peter O'Donoghue @yorkherald]

Many congratulations to Tom Johnston on his appointment by His Majesty The King as Rouge Croix Pursuivant of Arms -our first Australian Officer of Arms I believe! https://t.co/ueo83wbE2g