Past Transcribathons – Instructions, Glossaries and more

4 March 2021
Revealing Recipes: Top Tips from Early Modern Women:

Lady Sedley’s from the RCP and Lady Ayscough’s from the Wellcome Collection

Please join the Early Modern Recipe Online Collective (EMROC), Royal College of Physicians (RCP) and the Wellcome Collection for a one-day manuscript adventure on March 4, from 1PM to 9 PM GMT. This worldwide event offers a chance to help make two medical recipe books searchable for users around the globe.

Click Getting Started with Transcription to join us!

We’ll for transcribing two fabulous 17th century medical recipe books: Lady Sedley’s from the RCP and Lady Ayscough’s from the Wellcome Collection. Drop in, or stay all day! 

You’ll have the chance to:

  • Discover more about the history of the books direct from experts at the RCP and Wellcome Collection. Check out the Revealing Recipes schedule of online talks and events here, and register for access 10am-noon EST (3-5 pm GMT) during the transcribathon.
  • Learn about early modern recipes and domestic healthcare
  • Take part in conversations with experts on Twitter, and more.

And all from the comfort of your own home!

For more background on the manuscripts we’re transcribing this year, see our Ayscough Project and Sedley Project pages.

Transcribers will be working around the globe.  Participants will virtually meet scholars from around the world and emerge from the day with a line for their CV—all from their own home, classroom, or office! NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY – we’ll walk you through the coding and offer pointers on the handwriting.

We are grateful to the Folger Shakespeare Library for providing a customised transcription platform on From the Page for this event. We’ll be posting more on accessing and using the platform soon.

Interested in joining our Transcribathon virtually? Contact Lisa Smith, at lisa.smith@essex.ac.uk or @historybeagle, or jump in on the day.

On this page, please find a series of resources to orient, help, and inform.

Key links

EMROC blog (for quick and dirty blog posts as things happen, as well as more thoughtful posts later)

Twitter (for those of us live-tweeting the event, at #EMROCtranscribes; more suggested hasthtags here)

Revealing Recipes Workshop, with live mini-lectures from scholars and librarians.

Royal College of Physicians event page.

EMROC 2021 Spotify Playlist

Pre-transcribathon survey so we can learn more about our participants. (Thank you!!!)

2 thoughts on “Past Transcribathons – Instructions, Glossaries and more

  1. Dear Lisa
    I am really interested in the Jane Dawson’s Recipe Book project but am probably too late to join in. I am afraid I am only available in the afternoon tomorrow.

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