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Digital humanist · Independent scholar and Consultant for Digital Humanities @huber-digital.bsky.social · Research: poetry (very long #c18th) · Published: eighteenthcenturypoetry.org, thomasgray.org · Project: romanticperiodpoetry.org
Really pleased that my video lecture on queer British history, 1714-1785 is now on YouTube: youtu.be/nTrxX28_dKw?... #HistoricalAssociation #LGBTHistoryMonth #QueerHistory #18thcentury
Charles Dibdin (1745-1814) / © National Portrait Gallery, London
On this day (281 years ago), Charles Dibdin (1745-1814)’s birth date.
Featured in the #EighteenthCenturyPoetryArchive:
https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/authors/pers00347.shtml
#c18th #poetry #DH #18thCentury #OnThisDay #OTD
Portrait of Alphonse de Lamartine (1790-1869) / Wikimedia Commons
On this day (157 years ago), Alphonse de Lamartine (1790-1869)’s death date.
Featured in the #RomanticPeriodPoetryArchive:
https://www.romanticperiodpoetry.org/authors/#id/pers00104
#c19th #poetry #DH #Romanticism #19thC #OnThisDay #OTD
This is certainly what @hlaehnemann.bsky.social and I have been doing with Taylor Editions! @tayoxford.bsky.social The model is appreciated by reviewers, e.g. muse.jhu.edu/article/965571
While not universally true, it is generally true that the tighter the control on production & distribution you place on an intellectual work, the less likely it will survive into posterity.
If you want something to last, make it good, make lots of it, and make it easy for others to make more of it.
Building benchmarks is only one way scholars can help steer AI development. We can also measure the effects of AI on students, build better datasets, or tune new open models. Openness itself could be our most important contribution. Universities have huge libraries, and the legal doctrine of fair use should protect models trained on those collections for a nonprofit educational purpose. At the moment, we are not pressing this advantage. Higher education has been so cautious about fair use that the private sector can now train more freely on our libraries (via Google Books) than is possible for academic AI researchers. We need to be bolder: It is our duty to ensure library collections remain open to the public in a form that empowers 21st-century readers. If our intellectual heritage gets enclosed in proprietary tools, we will find ourselves making the same bad bargain we made with scientific publishers, who sell our own research back to us at a steep markup.
We're in a strange situation rn where Google can train freely on books from university libraries—but researchers *at* universities have limited access. I'm optimistic this can be fixed, but if you're in admin or working at a foundation, please know: univs are failing here & resources are needed.
Portrait of Fernando Corradi (1808-1885) / Wikimedia Commons
This day 141 years ago: Fernando Corradi (1808-1885) died this day.
Poems are included in the #RomanticPeriodPoetryArchive:
https://www.romanticperiodpoetry.org/authors/#id/pers00355
#c19th #poetry #DH #Romanticism #19thC #OnThisDay #OTD
Portrait of Thomas Moore (1779-1852) / Wikimedia Commons
On this date 174 years ago, Thomas Moore (1779-1852) died this day.
Poetry available in the #RomanticPeriodPoetryArchive:
https://www.romanticperiodpoetry.org/authors/#id/pers00011
#c19th #poetry #DH #Romanticism #19thC #OnThisDay #OTD
Portrait of Dániel Berzsenyi (1776-1836) / Wikimedia Commons
Today marks the 190th anniversary of the death of Dániel Berzsenyi (1776-1836).
Featured in the #RomanticPeriodPoetryArchive:
https://www.romanticperiodpoetry.org/authors/#id/pers00680
#c19th #poetry #DH #Romanticism #19thC #OnThisDay #OTD
Portrait of John Keats (1795-1821) / Wikimedia Commons
Portrait of Joanna Baillie (1762-1851) / Wikimedia Commons
On this day, John Keats (1795-1821) and Joanna Baillie (1762-1851) died this day.
Poetry available in the #RomanticPeriodPoetryArchive:
https://www.romanticperiodpoetry.org/
#c19th #poetry #DH #Romanticism #19thC #OnThisDay #OTD
Portrait of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911) / Wikimedia Commons
Today marks the 115th anniversary of the death of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911).
Featured in the #RomanticPeriodPoetryArchive:
https://www.romanticperiodpoetry.org/authors/#id/pers00605
#c19th #poetry #DH #Romanticism #19thC #OnThisDay #OTD
Portrait of Justinus Kerner (1786-1862) / Wikimedia Commons
OTD (164 years ago): date of death of Justinus Kerner (1786-1862).
Featured in the #RomanticPeriodPoetryArchive:
https://www.romanticperiodpoetry.org/authors/#id/pers00564
#c19th #poetry #DH #Romanticism #19thC #OnThisDay #OTD
📢 We’re excited to share our programme of events for this semester, accessible on our events page. We’re offering some seminars as hybrid so we hope you can join us in York or online. Full details at www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c...
18TH CENTURY BRITISH HISTORY PHD LIGHTNING TALKS CFP
Are you at the start of your PhD? Want to tell an eager and engaged audience about it in 5 mins? We want to hear the best PGR research about 18th Britain at our #LightningTalks event 29 April 2026.
Please see the poster for further information!
Portrait of José da Silva Maia Ferreira (1827-1881) / Wikimedia Commons
Today marks the 145th anniversary of the death of José da Silva Maia Ferreira (1827-1881).
Poems are included in the #RomanticPeriodPoetryArchive:
https://www.romanticperiodpoetry.org/authors/#id/pers00406
#c19th #poetry #DH #Romanticism #19thC #OnThisDay #OTD
David Garrick (1717-1779) / © National Portrait Gallery, London
Today in eighteenth-century poetry: Myles Cooper (1737-1785) and David Garrick (1717-1779)’s birth date.
Poetry available in the #EighteenthCenturyPoetryArchive:
https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/
#c18th #poetry #DH #18thCentury #OnThisDay #OTD
CFP - After 1776: Settlers, Slavery, and Citizenship in the Atlantic Republics
Papers are invited that engage with any aspect of settler republicanism, revolutionary change, or political belonging in the Atlantic world.
Deadline: 28th February
CfP 📢 "Communication and Exchange in the Early Modern (c.1500 - 1850)", Aberystwyth University
📆11-12 June 2026 | 🌍 Aberystwyth (Galles)
⏰Deadline: 27 February 2026
All info👇
#EarlyModern #CfP
The Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society is now inviting applications for its Open Bursary 2026-7. €2000 to support archival research, symposiums/conferences, or publication expenses associated with original work on eighteenth-century Ireland. More information here: www.ecis.ie/2026/01/05/e...
Portrait of Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) / Wikimedia Commons
Portrait of James Macpherson (1736-1796) / Wikimedia Commons
Portrait of José Amador de los Ríos (1818-1878) / Wikimedia Commons
On this day, death of Heinrich Heine (1797-1856), James Macpherson (1736-1796), and José Amador de los Ríos (1818-1878).
Poems appear in the #RomanticPeriodPoetryArchive:
https://www.romanticperiodpoetry.org/
#c19th #poetry #DH #Romanticism #19thC #OnThisDay #OTD
Issue 22 (2026) of Umanistica Digitale is now available online.
Special Issue, "From Data to Heritage: Semantic Enrichment, Archives, and Digital Libraries" (IRCDL 2025), edited by Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio and Marcella Cornia.
umanisticadigitale.unibo.it
@aiucd.bsky.social @eadhorg.bsky.social
Portrait of Ghalib (Mirza Asadullah Beg Khan) (1797-1869) / Wikimedia Commons
On this day (157 years ago), Ghalib (Mirza Asadullah Beg Khan) (1797-1869) died this day.
Poems are included in the #RomanticPeriodPoetryArchive:
https://www.romanticperiodpoetry.org/authors/#id/pers00876
#c19th #poetry #DH #Romanticism #19thC #OnThisDay #OTD
Portrait of Gabriel García Tassara (1817-1875) / Wikimedia Commons
On this day (151 years ago), Gabriel García Tassara (1817-1875) died this day.
Poems are included in the #RomanticPeriodPoetryArchive:
https://www.romanticperiodpoetry.org/authors/#id/pers00183
#c19th #poetry #DH #Romanticism #19thC #OnThisDay #OTD
Richard Owen Cambridge (1717-1802) / © National Portrait Gallery, London
This day 309 years ago: Richard Owen Cambridge (1717-1802)’s birth date.
Poetry available in the #EighteenthCenturyPoetryArchive:
https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/authors/pers00041.shtml
#c18th #poetry #DH #18thCentury #OnThisDay #OTD
Screenshot of the new Huber Digital website
We've refreshed the Huber Digital website!
Huber Digital is a Digital Humanities consultancy focussed on open scholarship, engaging and accessible interfaces, citability, and long-term sustainability.
New look, same focus on thoughtful digital humanities work: hubers.org.uk
#DigitalHumanities
Robert Dodsley (1704-1764) / © National Portrait Gallery, London
On this day (322 years ago), Robert Dodsley (1704-1764)’s birth date.
Poems are included in the #EighteenthCenturyPoetryArchive:
https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/authors/pers00023.shtml
#c18th #poetry #DH #18thCentury #OnThisDay #OTD
William Whitehead (1715-1785) / © National Portrait Gallery, London
William Mason (1725-1797) / © National Portrait Gallery, London
OTD: birth of William Whitehead (1715-1785) and William Mason (1725-1797).
Featured in the #EighteenthCenturyPoetryArchive:
https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/
#c18th #poetry #DH #18thCentury #OnThisDay #OTD
Facsimile page
Happy to report the addition of the 1843 edition of _Elegia di Tommaso Gray_ to the #ThomasGrayArchive digital library. The volume contains 12 Italian, 5 Latin, 1 Hebrew, 6 French, and 4 German #Elegy translations:
www.thomasgray.org/texts/diglib...
#c18th #poetry #19thC #DigitalHumanities
