UCL Christmas Closure

As you might have noticed, Christmas is nearly upon us!  We’ve had another great year at Transcribe Bentham. Our volunteers continue to devote care and attention to their transcriptions and have worked on more than 2,500 manuscript pages over the past 12 months.  We have also been experimenting with new technology through our participation in the READ project, which is teaching computers to read handwritten historical documents.

The Transcription  Desk will remain available over the break but it will be largely unstaffed after 5pm (GMT) on Friday 23 December until Tuesday 4 January.  Transcripts submitted after  23 December will not be checked until the New Year.

As ever, we owe a huge thanks to our volunteer transcribers – Transcribe Bentham would be nothing without you!  All the best for the festive period and see you in 2017!