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Finding Women in the Sloane Lab Knowledge Base [Online Exhibition, Dataset, & Research Guide]
A Guide to Finding Women in the Sloane Lab Knowledge Base, available to download here We are pleased to announce the release of three new resources — an online exhibition, dataset, and research guide — developed by Dr Rosalind White, Sloane Lab Community Research Fellow at University College London, as part of her project In…
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In the Margins of Early Modern Science: Pioneering Women in Sloane’s ‘Paper Museum’
Sloane Lab Community Fellow Dr Rosalind White is a cultural historian who specialises in uncovering ‘lost’ stories through object-led archival research. Her PhD, funded by the AHRC, explored natural history’s influence on Victorian literature and culture, emphasising the overlooked contributions of women, children, and working-class naturalists. As a Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham on…
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Sloane Lab and HDSM Darmstadt Seminar Series 2024: Critical and creative engagement with historical data
We are delighted to announce the second edition of the Sloane Lab symposium series commencing on the 16th of April 2024, facilitated in collaboration with the Humanities Data Science & Methodology (HDSM) Oberseminar of TU Darmstadt, the UCL Centre for Digital Humanities (UCLDH) and the UCL Institute for Advanced Studies (UCL IAS). This seminar invites…
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Rethinking Web Maps to present Hans Sloane’s Collections
Gethin Rees is Lead Curator for Digital Mapping at the British Library and a Sloane Lab Community Fellow. The following post was first published on the Digital Scholarship Blog of the British Library. I have recently started a community fellowship working with geographical data from the Sloane Lab project. The project is titled A Generous Approach…
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The Sloane Lab Community Fellowship Round Three (2 positions)
We are seeking to appoint Community Fellows (2 positions available) to contribute to “The Sloane Lab: Looking back to build future shared collections”, led by University College London (UCL) in partnership with the Technische Universität Darmstadt, British Museum (BM) and Natural History Museum (NHM). The fellow will undertake creative, critical, practice and/or research-led projects with…
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The Sloane Lab Community Fellowship Round Two (3 months funded) – Extended
We are seeking to appoint Community Fellows (ten in total until summer 2024) to contribute to “The Sloane Lab: Looking back to build future shared collections”, led by University College London (UCL) in partnership with the Technische Universität Darmstadt, British Museum (BM) and Natural History Museum (NHM). The fellow will undertake creative, critical, practice and/or…
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The Sloane Lab Community Fellowships Round One
We are seeking to appoint Community Fellows (ten in total until summer 2024) to contribute to “The Sloane Lab: Looking back to build future shared collections”, led by University College London (UCL)in partnership with the Technische Universität Darmstadt, British Museum (BM) and Natural History Museum (NHM). The fellow will undertake creative, critical, practice and/or research-led…
