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We support digital approaches in research, teaching and outreach at the University of Exeter and beyond.
https://www.exeter.ac.uk/research/digitalhumanities/
@exeterunispeccoll.bsky.socialReposted by @dhlabexeter.bsky.socialDid you know our archives contain thousands of letters, just waiting to be read? 💌
Why not get started now by visiting our online PenPals exhibit, which explores correspondence between South-West writers!
@exeterunispeccoll.bsky.socialReposted by @dhlabexeter.bsky.socialGood morning to everyone but especially to all the octopuses, for today is their special day!
To celebrate World Octopus Day, here's an illustration of an octopus from the book 'The World of the Sea' by Moquin Tandon, published in 1869.
📷 Reserve 591.92 TAN
@dhlabexeter.bsky.socialWe have had a great time digitising the playbills at the Lab!
@exeterunispeccoll.bsky.socialReposted by @dhlabexeter.bsky.socialOn 07 October 1889, the (New) Theatre Royal opened in Exeter. It was demolished in 1962.
Our collections include many items relating to the Theatre Royal, including 2,383 playbills!
#OnThisDay #TheatreHistory #TheatreArchives #Archives #Exeter #ExeterHistory @uniofexeterdrama.bsky.social
@exeterunispeccoll.bsky.socialReposted by @dhlabexeter.bsky.socialGood morning to everyone, but especially to all the badgers, for today is their special day!
To celebrate National Badger Day, here is an illustration of a badger from the book 'Animated Nature' (1828) by Georges-Louis Leclerc.
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@bdcmuseum.bsky.socialReposted by @dhlabexeter.bsky.social🕵️♂️Happy James Bond Day to those who celebrate!
Today marks the anniversary of the London premier of Dr No in 1962🔫
Speculation is rife about who will be the next James Bond - who would you choose?
#filmsky #jamesbondday #007 #drno
@exeterunispeccoll.bsky.socialReposted by @dhlabexeter.bsky.socialThis map by Benjamin Donn was produced as part of a 12-sheet map of Devon in 1765. Donn was awarded £100 from the Royal Society for the Arts for the best 1 inch to a mile survey of an English county.
📷 Townsend Maps T8; digitised by @dhlabexeter.bsky.social
@exeterunispeccoll.bsky.socialReposted by @dhlabexeter.bsky.socialBelieve it or nut - it's already October! 🍂
We hope you all have a lovely weekend.
📷 Illustration of oak, hazelnut & hornbeam from ‘The Flowering Plants of Great Britain’ (1855) by Anne Pratt [Baring-Gould Library 0691]
@exeterunispeccoll.bsky.socialReposted by @dhlabexeter.bsky.socialIt's #NationalPoetryDay today 📝
We hold over 40 collections relating to South West writers, this includes the papers of the Cornish poet & writer Jack Clemo. Clemo's work was often inspired by the Cornish landscape and wildlife, as shown in this poem 'Gulls Nesting Inland'🪶
📷: EUL MS 68/Lit/3/6
@exeterunispeccoll.bsky.socialReposted by @dhlabexeter.bsky.socialGood morning to everyone, but especially to all the raccoons, for today is their special day!
This woodcut of a raccoon was printed in 1635 in 'Historia Naturae, Maxime Peregrinae' by Juan Eusebio Nieremberg.
📷 Baring-Gould Library 0689 Folio
@dhlabexeter.bsky.socialOnce again, Happy National Poetry Day!
#Digital #Humanities #DigitalHumanities #DH #DHLab #DigitalHumanitiesLab #DigitalResearch #Research #DHInterns #ExeterDH #CreativeIndustries #Digitsation #Digitising #AV #AVProduction #Audio #Visual
@dhlabexeter.bsky.socialClick the link here for the full YouTube playlist: youtube.com/playlist?lis...
@dhlabexeter.bsky.socialClick the link here for Helen Vassallo's reading of Olen Huseinova's poetry: youtu.be/uLBkmMUH3GU?...
@dhlabexeter.bsky.social"Translating poetry and other writing from Ukraine shows the key role that digital humanities have to play in conveying this work. The lived experience of war in ways that can speak powerfully to those who are still fortunate enough not to have experienced it for real.”
@dhlabexeter.bsky.social"The recording was produced by a Digital Humanities Lab student intern Evelyn Kenrick, showing how student career development and research projects can go hand-in-hand."
@dhlabexeter.bsky.social"Digital Humanities have continued offering support. This includes Hugh Roberts's recording in 2026 of the audiobook of Hemingway Knows Nothing, forthcoming from Jantar. This is Artur Dron's second, prize-winning book of essays or poems, reflecting on his experiences of war and rehabilitation."
@dhlabexeter.bsky.social"We believe this is the first work of poetry by a serving soldier written since 2022 to be made available in English."
@dhlabexeter.bsky.social"They offered a showcase that helped secure the interest of the independent, London-based publisher Jantar Publishing. They later secured the rights for Artur Dron's We Were Here, translated by Yuliya Musakovska."
@dhlabexeter.bsky.social"The YouTube videos raised awareness of this work at a crucial stage when the outpouring of poetry by serving soldiers and others in Ukraine, writing in the face of Russia's full-scale invasion of February 2022, was just starting to become known outside of the country."
@dhlabexeter.bsky.social"The first step in sharing the poetry online began in 2024 with the production of short YouTube videos. Professors Hugh Roberts and Helen Vassallo of the University of Exeter recited poems by serving soldiers Artur Dron' and Liza Zharikova and by the radio personality, Olena Huseinova."
