Philip Allfrey

Today looking up details to correctly cite a scholar I found she's also made some art. #DHMakes This is Interference Pattern II by Frances Rothwell Hughes. She started each square when she had time to embroider and stopped when interrupted by her newborn www.francesrothwellhughes.com/interference...

@spil030.bsky.social were you ringing tonight? I just dropped a friend off at their hotel in the city and heard the bells.

The first appointment of a female officer of arms in ordinary in England, Caroline McWilliams, has recently been announced! (In 2022 Professor Anne Curry was appointed Arundel Herald Extraordinary but this position is not part of the College of Arms) www.college-of-arms.gov.uk/news-grants/...

I spy a "Book Trade Probate"-related chapter in this collection by @breanneweber.bsky.social!

I was involved as an expert volunteer in the early part of this project. It is terrible to be at risk of losing your job at any time; I can't imagine what it's like to have it happen right as you reach the culmination of a multi-year project!

Today I learned that the Latinised form of Auckland (New Zealand) is Aucopolis, with the corresponding adjective Aucopolitanus, though in scientific names the form Aucklandensis seems to be used. The main use of Aucopolitanus seems to be in relation to the Catholic diocese thereof.

In more (& bigger) ceremonial news, James Peill has been appointed Garter King of Arms as of 1 July. Usually one would expect another of the kings of arms to move up in the event of a vacancy, or at least one of the more senior heralds; Peill was only promoted to Richmond Herald at the end of May!

In ceremonial news, I see from footage of the Order of the Thistle service that there is a new Usher of the Green Rod. According to the Edinburgh Gazette, Baroness Grainger, the first woman to hold this office, was appointed Lady Usher of the Green Rod on June 19 www.thegazette.co.uk/notice/5158393

A grant of arms by Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI, with some lovely calligraphy, and unusual particolored mantling #heraldry

I've just discovered that a couple of Australian universities offer a BLitt or BPhil, and that AUT and Waikato offer an MPhil by research (unlike Auckland where it's for if you won't achieve a doctorate), so now there are a couple of other ways I could theoretically complete my academic bingo card!

Nice intersection with the 19th century College of Arms, and some antiquarians I have encountered. Nicholas Harris Nicolas wrote histories of various orders of knighthood, and Philip Bliss (mentioned in the full entry) edited the third edition of Wood's 'Athenae Oxonienses'.

Most transport maps show where infrastructure is. I wanted to show what that infrastructure actually lets people reach. I’ve been building the Auckland Transport Access Atlas: an interactive map of car dependency, accessibility, equity, and planner priorities across Auckland. ataa.tfwelch.com

Interesting entry in the recently updated catalogue for the Court of Requests series at TNA: a wager between a gentleman and a publican about whose family and arms were older, as adjudged by Clarenceux and the heralds in 1637 (REQ 2/296/61). discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C2...

Heraldry! This is a huge family tree for William Cole, who established the Plantation town of Enniskillen. It asserts that he is related to many English nobility families, with wonderful illustrations of their coats of arms. #GenHour #Genealogy #IrishGenealogy

#DHMakes friends: my son has started a new school, and got into their Maker class. This means his normal education takes place in (and using the resources of) a makerspace! (3d printers, sewing machines, etc) He is absolutely loving it.

Congratulations Meghan!

The brain is a wonderful thing! Yesterday I had occasion to look up a photo of the old Epsom library, where I worked during high school and the start of university. Almost three decades later I can still remember the shelving layout, and what books went where, almost down to the letter!

I made some macarons for a shared lunch today, and I'm very pleased with how they turned out! #DHBakes

In honour of the release of "The life of a showgirl" I've finally gotten around to adding "Unicode burlesque" to my website of DH songs – "What is #DigitalHumanities? The Album" – after only two years! Thanks again to @quinnanya.me for the inspiration what-is-dh-the-album.netlify.app/singles/unic...

@thegozfather.bsky.social REQ 2 question: I transcribed REQ 2/136/33 for my research a couple of years ago. Are you interested in the dates of the 3 or 4 documents contained therein, to make the catalogue entry more precise than [reign of Eliz 1]?

Thrilled to have been able to identify today a copy of a 15th century papal bull used as binding waste, and thereby establish a terminus post quem for an Old West Frisian text on the verso! #Paleography #BookHistory

Former Windsor Herald, William Hunt, receives an honorary doctorate. #heraldry

Reupping the advice to always talk to the staff when you go to an archive. Shout out to James at Auckland Council Archives today, who directed me to a record series I didn't know about which had valuable information about one of my local history projects!

Putting my paleography and local history degree to good use in correcting a listing at the local auction house :)

Dorothy Amherst #HerBook

ESTC is back!

I am delighted to announce that my data paper "Locations of Markets in English Market Towns, 1813: Constructing a dataset" has just been published in ZfdG This is a deep dive into the process & decisions that went into creating a dataset of market locations from a C19th text doi.org/10.17175/202...

4am start this morning but all four of us made it to the ANZAC day dawn service at Auckland War Memorial Museum – Tāmaki Paenga Hira. Lest we forget.