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  1. BBC: Condoms and love letters all in a castle’s secrets. “Nineteenth Century condoms, love letters, and the tale of a servant pilfering a lady’s Easter egg are among unexpected discoveries made by archivists collating Warwick Castle’s records. A new online catalogue, charting 800 years of maps, letters and legal documents, shines a light on previously hidden stories, including those of the […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/07/13/bbc-condoms-and-love-letters-all-in-a-castles-secrets/
  2. BBC: Condoms and love letters all in a castle’s secrets. “Nineteenth Century condoms, love letters, and the tale of a servant pilfering a lady’s Easter egg are among unexpected discoveries made by archivists collating Warwick Castle’s records. A new online catalogue, charting 800 years of maps, letters and legal documents, shines a light on previously hidden stories, including those of the […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/07/13/bbc-condoms-and-love-letters-all-in-a-castles-secrets/
  3. BBC: Condoms and love letters all in a castle’s secrets. “Nineteenth Century condoms, love letters, and the tale of a servant pilfering a lady’s Easter egg are among unexpected discoveries made by archivists collating Warwick Castle’s records. A new online catalogue, charting 800 years of maps, letters and legal documents, shines a light on previously hidden stories, including those of the […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/07/13/bbc-condoms-and-love-letters-all-in-a-castles-secrets/
  4. BBC: Condoms and love letters all in a castle’s secrets. “Nineteenth Century condoms, love letters, and the tale of a servant pilfering a lady’s Easter egg are among unexpected discoveries made by archivists collating Warwick Castle’s records. A new online catalogue, charting 800 years of maps, letters and legal documents, shines a light on previously hidden stories, including those of the […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/07/13/bbc-condoms-and-love-letters-all-in-a-castles-secrets/
  5. BBC: Condoms and love letters all in a castle’s secrets. “Nineteenth Century condoms, love letters, and the tale of a servant pilfering a lady’s Easter egg are among unexpected discoveries made by archivists collating Warwick Castle’s records. A new online catalogue, charting 800 years of maps, letters and legal documents, shines a light on previously hidden stories, including those of the […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/07/13/bbc-condoms-and-love-letters-all-in-a-castles-secrets/
  6. Very pleased to announce the addition of the 592 surviving letters in Thomas Gray’s correspondence to the #ThomasGrayArchive integrated finding aid to Thomas Gray manuscripts:

    thomasgray.org/resources/finda

    #c18th #correspondence #letters #findingaid #ThomasGray #DigitalHumanities #18thC #EAD

  7. Neu in correspSearch: Johann Caspar Lavater: Historisch-krititsche Edition ausgewählter Briefwechsel (JCLB). Hg. v. Ursula Caflisch-Schnetzler und Davide Giuriato jclavater-briefwechsel.ch/

    Suche in correspSearch:
    correspsearch.net/de/suche.htm

    #briefe #briefedition #cmif #correspondence

  8. Neu in correspSearch: Johann Caspar Lavater: Historisch-krititsche Edition ausgewählter Briefwechsel (JCLB). Hg. v. Ursula Caflisch-Schnetzler und Davide Giuriato jclavater-briefwechsel.ch/

    Suche in correspSearch:
    correspsearch.net/de/suche.htm

    #briefe #briefedition #cmif #correspondence

  9. Neu in correspSearch: Johann Caspar Lavater: Historisch-krititsche Edition ausgewählter Briefwechsel (JCLB). Hg. v. Ursula Caflisch-Schnetzler und Davide Giuriato jclavater-briefwechsel.ch/

    Suche in correspSearch:
    correspsearch.net/de/suche.htm

    #briefe #briefedition #cmif #correspondence

  10. Neu in correspSearch: Johann Caspar Lavater: Historisch-krititsche Edition ausgewählter Briefwechsel (JCLB). Hg. v. Ursula Caflisch-Schnetzler und Davide Giuriato jclavater-briefwechsel.ch/

    Suche in correspSearch:
    correspsearch.net/de/suche.htm

    #briefe #briefedition #cmif #correspondence

  11. Neu in correspSearch: Johann Caspar Lavater: Historisch-krititsche Edition ausgewählter Briefwechsel (JCLB). Hg. v. Ursula Caflisch-Schnetzler und Davide Giuriato jclavater-briefwechsel.ch/

    Suche in correspSearch:
    correspsearch.net/de/suche.htm

    #briefe #briefedition #cmif #correspondence

  12. A Bonanza For Fans Of The Natural World - The Digital Library Sharing 64 million Pages Of Scientific Knowledge With Everyone
    --
    theguardian.com/environment/20 ← shared technical media article
    --
    biodiversitylibrary.org/ <-- shared BHL home page / data portal
    --
    [glorious resource!]
    “The Biodiversity Heritage Library improves research methodology by collaboratively making biodiversity literature openly available to the world as part of a global biodiversity community.“
    --
    “The Biodiversity Heritage Library [BHL} is an invaluable online archive of historic texts on species living and lost supplied by the world’s leading museums and universities...
    Some go there to read about the wood that Victorian manufacturers used to make walking sticks. Others want to see an illustration of a Tasmanian tiger or marvel at the field diary of one of the first known botanists to explore the Antarctic.
    Over the past 20 years, more than 64m pages have been made freely available through the... BHL – a digital treasure trove for fans of the natural world. More than 680 museums, universities, libraries and scientific institutions from China, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand to Europe, Africa, Mexico, Canada and the US, have contributed to the library.
    This week, a report from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew... revealed the crucial role digitisation [like BHL’s] is playing in “transforming our ability to understand and respond to the climate and biodiversity crises”, but it was the creation of the BHL 20 years ago that first demonstrated how bringing centuries of scientific knowledge online can unlock transformative discoveries and insights about the natural world.
    David Iggulden, who chairs the BHL executive committee alongside his job as head of data and digital, library and archives at RBG Kew, describes the library as an invaluable and “absolutely essential” resource for scientists in the field. But it is also used by scientific researchers, environmental historians, educators, art historians, artists, citizen scientists and members of the public who – like Iggulden – simply enjoy browsing its contents on a rainy weekend.
    “I just get caught up in it sometimes, looking at the various collections,” he says. “I think it’s amazing that we can explore such a vast array of different collections from very different institutions.”
    As well as published biodiversity literature and journals, there are letters, illustrations, climate records, field diaries, ecosystem profiles, distribution records and manuscripts containing the original collecting stories of a particular species or detailing voyages of discovery…”
    #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary #BHL #Biodiversity #library #literature #illustrations #UK #texts #historic #reference #online #opendata #visualisation #museum #walkingstick #university #research #institute #species #ecosystems #habitat #data #digital #climatechange #response #reference #resource #correspondence #illustrations #records #manuscripts
    @BiodiversityHeritageLibrary

  13. A Bonanza For Fans Of The Natural World - The Digital Library Sharing 64 million Pages Of Scientific Knowledge With Everyone
    --
    theguardian.com/environment/20 ← shared technical media article
    --
    biodiversitylibrary.org/ <-- shared BHL home page / data portal
    --
    [glorious resource!]
    “The Biodiversity Heritage Library improves research methodology by collaboratively making biodiversity literature openly available to the world as part of a global biodiversity community.“
    --
    “The Biodiversity Heritage Library [BHL} is an invaluable online archive of historic texts on species living and lost supplied by the world’s leading museums and universities...
    Some go there to read about the wood that Victorian manufacturers used to make walking sticks. Others want to see an illustration of a Tasmanian tiger or marvel at the field diary of one of the first known botanists to explore the Antarctic.
    Over the past 20 years, more than 64m pages have been made freely available through the... BHL – a digital treasure trove for fans of the natural world. More than 680 museums, universities, libraries and scientific institutions from China, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand to Europe, Africa, Mexico, Canada and the US, have contributed to the library.
    This week, a report from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew... revealed the crucial role digitisation [like BHL’s] is playing in “transforming our ability to understand and respond to the climate and biodiversity crises”, but it was the creation of the BHL 20 years ago that first demonstrated how bringing centuries of scientific knowledge online can unlock transformative discoveries and insights about the natural world.
    David Iggulden, who chairs the BHL executive committee alongside his job as head of data and digital, library and archives at RBG Kew, describes the library as an invaluable and “absolutely essential” resource for scientists in the field. But it is also used by scientific researchers, environmental historians, educators, art historians, artists, citizen scientists and members of the public who – like Iggulden – simply enjoy browsing its contents on a rainy weekend.
    “I just get caught up in it sometimes, looking at the various collections,” he says. “I think it’s amazing that we can explore such a vast array of different collections from very different institutions.”
    As well as published biodiversity literature and journals, there are letters, illustrations, climate records, field diaries, ecosystem profiles, distribution records and manuscripts containing the original collecting stories of a particular species or detailing voyages of discovery…”

    @BiodiversityHeritageLibrary

  14. A Bonanza For Fans Of The Natural World - The Digital Library Sharing 64 million Pages Of Scientific Knowledge With Everyone
    --
    theguardian.com/environment/20 ← shared technical media article
    --
    biodiversitylibrary.org/ <-- shared BHL home page / data portal
    --
    [glorious resource!]
    “The Biodiversity Heritage Library improves research methodology by collaboratively making biodiversity literature openly available to the world as part of a global biodiversity community.“
    --
    “The Biodiversity Heritage Library [BHL} is an invaluable online archive of historic texts on species living and lost supplied by the world’s leading museums and universities...
    Some go there to read about the wood that Victorian manufacturers used to make walking sticks. Others want to see an illustration of a Tasmanian tiger or marvel at the field diary of one of the first known botanists to explore the Antarctic.
    Over the past 20 years, more than 64m pages have been made freely available through the... BHL – a digital treasure trove for fans of the natural world. More than 680 museums, universities, libraries and scientific institutions from China, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand to Europe, Africa, Mexico, Canada and the US, have contributed to the library.
    This week, a report from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew... revealed the crucial role digitisation [like BHL’s] is playing in “transforming our ability to understand and respond to the climate and biodiversity crises”, but it was the creation of the BHL 20 years ago that first demonstrated how bringing centuries of scientific knowledge online can unlock transformative discoveries and insights about the natural world.
    David Iggulden, who chairs the BHL executive committee alongside his job as head of data and digital, library and archives at RBG Kew, describes the library as an invaluable and “absolutely essential” resource for scientists in the field. But it is also used by scientific researchers, environmental historians, educators, art historians, artists, citizen scientists and members of the public who – like Iggulden – simply enjoy browsing its contents on a rainy weekend.
    “I just get caught up in it sometimes, looking at the various collections,” he says. “I think it’s amazing that we can explore such a vast array of different collections from very different institutions.”
    As well as published biodiversity literature and journals, there are letters, illustrations, climate records, field diaries, ecosystem profiles, distribution records and manuscripts containing the original collecting stories of a particular species or detailing voyages of discovery…”
    #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary #BHL #Biodiversity #library #literature #illustrations #UK #texts #historic #reference #online #opendata #visualisation #museum #walkingstick #university #research #institute #species #ecosystems #habitat #data #digital #climatechange #response #reference #resource #correspondence #illustrations #records #manuscripts
    @BiodiversityHeritageLibrary

  15. A Bonanza For Fans Of The Natural World - The Digital Library Sharing 64 million Pages Of Scientific Knowledge With Everyone
    --
    theguardian.com/environment/20 ← shared technical media article
    --
    biodiversitylibrary.org/ <-- shared BHL home page / data portal
    --
    [glorious resource!]
    “The Biodiversity Heritage Library improves research methodology by collaboratively making biodiversity literature openly available to the world as part of a global biodiversity community.“
    --
    “The Biodiversity Heritage Library [BHL} is an invaluable online archive of historic texts on species living and lost supplied by the world’s leading museums and universities...
    Some go there to read about the wood that Victorian manufacturers used to make walking sticks. Others want to see an illustration of a Tasmanian tiger or marvel at the field diary of one of the first known botanists to explore the Antarctic.
    Over the past 20 years, more than 64m pages have been made freely available through the... BHL – a digital treasure trove for fans of the natural world. More than 680 museums, universities, libraries and scientific institutions from China, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand to Europe, Africa, Mexico, Canada and the US, have contributed to the library.
    This week, a report from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew... revealed the crucial role digitisation [like BHL’s] is playing in “transforming our ability to understand and respond to the climate and biodiversity crises”, but it was the creation of the BHL 20 years ago that first demonstrated how bringing centuries of scientific knowledge online can unlock transformative discoveries and insights about the natural world.
    David Iggulden, who chairs the BHL executive committee alongside his job as head of data and digital, library and archives at RBG Kew, describes the library as an invaluable and “absolutely essential” resource for scientists in the field. But it is also used by scientific researchers, environmental historians, educators, art historians, artists, citizen scientists and members of the public who – like Iggulden – simply enjoy browsing its contents on a rainy weekend.
    “I just get caught up in it sometimes, looking at the various collections,” he says. “I think it’s amazing that we can explore such a vast array of different collections from very different institutions.”
    As well as published biodiversity literature and journals, there are letters, illustrations, climate records, field diaries, ecosystem profiles, distribution records and manuscripts containing the original collecting stories of a particular species or detailing voyages of discovery…”
    #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary #BHL #Biodiversity #library #literature #illustrations #UK #texts #historic #reference #online #opendata #visualisation #museum #walkingstick #university #research #institute #species #ecosystems #habitat #data #digital #climatechange #response #reference #resource #correspondence #illustrations #records #manuscripts
    @BiodiversityHeritageLibrary

  16. A Bonanza For Fans Of The Natural World - The Digital Library Sharing 64 million Pages Of Scientific Knowledge With Everyone
    --
    theguardian.com/environment/20 ← shared technical media article
    --
    biodiversitylibrary.org/ <-- shared BHL home page / data portal
    --
    [glorious resource!]
    “The Biodiversity Heritage Library improves research methodology by collaboratively making biodiversity literature openly available to the world as part of a global biodiversity community.“
    --
    “The Biodiversity Heritage Library [BHL} is an invaluable online archive of historic texts on species living and lost supplied by the world’s leading museums and universities...
    Some go there to read about the wood that Victorian manufacturers used to make walking sticks. Others want to see an illustration of a Tasmanian tiger or marvel at the field diary of one of the first known botanists to explore the Antarctic.
    Over the past 20 years, more than 64m pages have been made freely available through the... BHL – a digital treasure trove for fans of the natural world. More than 680 museums, universities, libraries and scientific institutions from China, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand to Europe, Africa, Mexico, Canada and the US, have contributed to the library.
    This week, a report from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew... revealed the crucial role digitisation [like BHL’s] is playing in “transforming our ability to understand and respond to the climate and biodiversity crises”, but it was the creation of the BHL 20 years ago that first demonstrated how bringing centuries of scientific knowledge online can unlock transformative discoveries and insights about the natural world.
    David Iggulden, who chairs the BHL executive committee alongside his job as head of data and digital, library and archives at RBG Kew, describes the library as an invaluable and “absolutely essential” resource for scientists in the field. But it is also used by scientific researchers, environmental historians, educators, art historians, artists, citizen scientists and members of the public who – like Iggulden – simply enjoy browsing its contents on a rainy weekend.
    “I just get caught up in it sometimes, looking at the various collections,” he says. “I think it’s amazing that we can explore such a vast array of different collections from very different institutions.”
    As well as published biodiversity literature and journals, there are letters, illustrations, climate records, field diaries, ecosystem profiles, distribution records and manuscripts containing the original collecting stories of a particular species or detailing voyages of discovery…”
    #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary #BHL #Biodiversity #library #literature #illustrations #UK #texts #historic #reference #online #opendata #visualisation #museum #walkingstick #university #research #institute #species #ecosystems #habitat #data #digital #climatechange #response #reference #resource #correspondence #illustrations #records #manuscripts
    @BiodiversityHeritageLibrary

  17. Neu in correspSearch: Paweł Zarychta: Selbstinszenierung und Gedächtnisbildung. Rosa Maria Assing in Briefen und Lebenszeugnissen aus der Sammlung Varnhagen. Edition und Kommentar. Teil I. 1783–1823, Berlin: Peter Lang 2021. DOI: doi.org/10.3726/b19004

    correspsearch.net/de/suche.htm

    #briefe #briefedition #cmif #correspondence

  18. Neu in correspSearch: Paweł Zarychta: Selbstinszenierung und Gedächtnisbildung. Rosa Maria Assing in Briefen und Lebenszeugnissen aus der Sammlung Varnhagen. Edition und Kommentar. Teil I. 1783–1823, Berlin: Peter Lang 2021. DOI: doi.org/10.3726/b19004

    correspsearch.net/de/suche.htm

    #briefe #briefedition #cmif #correspondence

  19. Neu in correspSearch: Paweł Zarychta: Selbstinszenierung und Gedächtnisbildung. Rosa Maria Assing in Briefen und Lebenszeugnissen aus der Sammlung Varnhagen. Edition und Kommentar. Teil I. 1783–1823, Berlin: Peter Lang 2021. DOI: doi.org/10.3726/b19004

    correspsearch.net/de/suche.htm

    #briefe #briefedition #cmif #correspondence

  20. Troy University: It Came from the Archives: The World War 2 letters of Earl and Ruth Barker.. “Kelly Reeves from the Troy University Library shares a collection of correspondence and photographs recently digitized and made available at this link: Barker Collection of WWII Letters – Troy University Archives. The collection’s 257 handwritten letters and 84 ‘V-Mails’ (all transcribed) traces […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/24/it-came-from-the-archives-the-world-war-2-letters-of-earl-and-ruth-barker-troy-university/
  21. Troy University: It Came from the Archives: The World War 2 letters of Earl and Ruth Barker.. “Kelly Reeves from the Troy University Library shares a collection of correspondence and photographs recently digitized and made available at this link: Barker Collection of WWII Letters – Troy University Archives. The collection’s 257 handwritten letters and 84 ‘V-Mails’ (all transcribed) traces […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/24/it-came-from-the-archives-the-world-war-2-letters-of-earl-and-ruth-barker-troy-university/
  22. People use at least three different ways of evaluating truth: correspondence (accords with facts), coherence (consistent with other beliefs), and authenticity (honesty or transparency). Discussions among people with different definitions of truth are likely to be unproductive.

    Summary: psyche.co/ideas/why-its-so-har

    Original paper: sciencedirect.com/science/arti

    #Fact #Argument #Psychology #Correspondence #Authenticity #Coherence

  23. People use at least three different ways of evaluating truth: correspondence (accords with facts), coherence (consistent with other beliefs), and authenticity (honesty or transparency). Discussions among people with different definitions of truth are likely to be unproductive.

    Summary: psyche.co/ideas/why-its-so-har

    Original paper: sciencedirect.com/science/arti

    #Fact #Argument #Psychology #Correspondence #Authenticity #Coherence

  24. The Hill: Detailing D-Day, 30-cent haircuts and military life: USO unveils digital collection of letters from WWII soldier. “There are more than 300 letters in the collection launched Wednesday by the USO. The notes were written by U.S. Army private Louis ‘Speedy’ Weber to his wife, Frances, while he was serving on the frontlines in Europe between 1942 and 1945.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/14/detailing-d-day-30-cent-haircuts-and-military-life-uso-unveils-digital-collection-of-letters-from-wwii-soldier-the-hill/
  25. The Hill: Detailing D-Day, 30-cent haircuts and military life: USO unveils digital collection of letters from WWII soldier. “There are more than 300 letters in the collection launched Wednesday by the USO. The notes were written by U.S. Army private Louis ‘Speedy’ Weber to his wife, Frances, while he was serving on the frontlines in Europe between 1942 and 1945.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/14/detailing-d-day-30-cent-haircuts-and-military-life-uso-unveils-digital-collection-of-letters-from-wwii-soldier-the-hill/
  26. “I was struck by just how fun, playful and jesting Barrie was. And while I knew they developed a friendship, I didn’t realise just how much the friendship with Stevenson meant to Barrie”

    —A Friendship in Letters: Michael Shaw brings together correspondence between two of Scotland’s most famous writers – J.M. Barrie and Robert Louis Stevenson

    6/10

    booksfromscotland.com/2020/11/

    #Scottish #literature #JMBarrie #RobertLouisStevenson #19thcentury #Victorian #letters #correspondence

  27. “I was struck by just how fun, playful and jesting Barrie was. And while I knew they developed a friendship, I didn’t realise just how much the friendship with Stevenson meant to Barrie”

    —A Friendship in Letters: Michael Shaw brings together correspondence between two of Scotland’s most famous writers – J.M. Barrie and Robert Louis Stevenson

    6/10

    booksfromscotland.com/2020/11/

    #Scottish #literature #JMBarrie #RobertLouisStevenson #19thcentury #Victorian #letters #correspondence

  28. State of Hawaii: DAGS Receives Rare, Important War History Artifacts. “The 100th Infantry Battalion Veterans Educations Center, also known as Club 100, on Friday donated a packet of correspondence to the DAGS division Hawaiʻi State Archives…. There are 111 of these so-called Turner Letters written between 1944 and 1945. They spell out in great detail the conditions of the war, the impact […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/11/state-of-hawaii-dags-receives-rare-important-war-history-artifacts/
  29. State of Hawaii: DAGS Receives Rare, Important War History Artifacts. “The 100th Infantry Battalion Veterans Educations Center, also known as Club 100, on Friday donated a packet of correspondence to the DAGS division Hawaiʻi State Archives…. There are 111 of these so-called Turner Letters written between 1944 and 1945. They spell out in great detail the conditions of the war, the impact […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/11/state-of-hawaii-dags-receives-rare-important-war-history-artifacts/
  30. The push to get us completely 'digitalized' approaches a crucial milestone. A new letter from Desert Sage on the impending demise of the letter delivery.

    desertsagenm.substack.com/p/im

    #postalservice #USPS #letters #correspondence #tech #Technology

  31. Neu in correspSearch: Briefe einer Liebe. Heinrich Mann und Inés Schmied 1905 bis 1909. Hg. von Günter Berg, Anke Lindemann-Stark und Ariane Martin. Teil 1: 1905 bis 1906. In: Heinrich Mann-Jahrbuch 17 (1999), S. 145-231. Teil 2: 1907 bis 1909. In: Heinrich Mann-Jahrbuch 19 (2001), S. 213-275.

    correspsearch.net/de/suche.htm

    #HeinrichMann #InesSchmied #Literaturwissenschaft #Briefe #Correspondence #cmif

  32. Neu in correspSearch: Briefe der russischen Übersetzerin Adele Polotsky-Wolin an Heinrich Mann. In: Ariane Martin: Heinrich Mann: Der Untertan 1906 bis 1918. Entstehung und Überlieferung. Im Anhang: Briefe der russischen Übersetzerin Adele Polotsky-Wolin an Heinrich Mann. Bielefeld: Aisthesis Verlag 2021, S. 136-155. correspsearch.net/de/suche.htm

    #correspondence #briefe #briefedition #cmif

  33. Neu in correspSearch: Briefe der russischen Übersetzerin Adele Polotsky-Wolin an Heinrich Mann. In: Ariane Martin: Heinrich Mann: Der Untertan 1906 bis 1918. Entstehung und Überlieferung. Im Anhang: Briefe der russischen Übersetzerin Adele Polotsky-Wolin an Heinrich Mann. Bielefeld: Aisthesis Verlag 2021, S. 136-155. correspsearch.net/de/suche.htm

    #correspondence #briefe #briefedition #cmif

  34. Neu in correspSearch: Briefe der russischen Übersetzerin Adele Polotsky-Wolin an Heinrich Mann. In: Ariane Martin: Heinrich Mann: Der Untertan 1906 bis 1918. Entstehung und Überlieferung. Im Anhang: Briefe der russischen Übersetzerin Adele Polotsky-Wolin an Heinrich Mann. Bielefeld: Aisthesis Verlag 2021, S. 136-155. correspsearch.net/de/suche.htm

    #correspondence #briefe #briefedition #cmif