Updates, November and December 2017
Work carried out in the last two months of 2017: Transcribed two missing pages, listing statutes of the reign of Edward the Third, of volume 2 of Pickering’s Statutes at Large. Started removing latin...
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These last two months have mainly be spent making automated corrections to the OCRd volumes of the Statutes. Alongside correcting specific mistranscriptions, I’ve been working on correcting word...
View ArticleUpdates: June and July 2018.
Work on the Statutes Project done in the last two months: New Volumes: I have scanned, and uploaded to Github, 13 volumes of the series ‘The Law Reports: The Public General Statutes’, each covering one...
View ArticleUpdates: August and September 2018
Work on the Statutes Project done over the last two months: A blog post: on a satyrical law against make-up and adornments, sometimes taken as real, that I’ve dated back to 1785. New tables: There is...
View ArticleTables of Statutes of the United Kingdom, 1801 to 1921.
I have now completed tables of the full, long titles of public statutes passed by the parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, from the Act of Union in 1801 up to 1921, when...
View ArticleDigitization of the missing late c19th volumes
Although there are many digitized collections of statutes available online, and indeed many digitizations of the same publication, I have not found a number of volumes from the last two decades of the...
View ArticleUpdates, October to December 2018.
Work on the Statutes project for the last three months of 2018: The big news is that I now have a complete set of volumes of statutes for the nineteenth century, courtesy of the Institute of Historical...
View ArticleA Chronological Bibliography
Following an exchange on twitter with the Victorian Commons project, I have rejigged part of my first listing of volumes of statutes, and published a chronological bibliography of nineteenth century...
View ArticleStandardizing Statutes
I have just added the 1689 act ‘Absence of King William‘ to the statutes text section. I took the text from Wikisource, which in turn transcribed it from the Statutes of the Realm collection, volume 6....
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