Blog Posts

  • Transkribus Training 2

    After Easter, I attended three sessions of training on Transkribus, the Handwriting Recognition Software that works a bit like Optical Character Recognition to create automatic transcriptions of manuscripts. This is the second in a series of three posts about the training. The second session was a bit different. Before going into further information about how…

  • Transkribus Training

    After Easter, I attended three sessions of training on Transkribus, the Handwriting Recognition Software that works a bit like Optical Character Recognition to create automatic transcriptions of manuscripts. This is the first in a series of three posts about the training. The first session was a bit of an epic – 4 hours of training…

  • My Week

    It’s the Easter vacation, so I thought I would write a diary outlining what I do these days when I’m not teaching. Well, the three days of the week that I am working, anyway – the university is closed from Thursday for a week. Monday Today, I had three things planned – give feedback on…

  • Week 6 Down

    We’re over the hump. Week 6 was, in the words of our excellent part 2 administrator, the week that was trying to kill me. In an already crowded teaching timetable, I had an extra six hours of teaching. This was self-inflicted. Another way of looking at it is that I am a victim of my…

  • Teaching for 2023-24

    I’ve just found out what I’m teaching next year, and it’s quite a change from previous years. Of course, I’m going to be teaching my new Crisis and Continuity Course at Part II (second and third year), and I’m still teaching Hist401, the MA Core Course, to the students on campus. This means that my…