Colonial Despatches

A new version of the Colonial Despatches site, edition 2.2, was published on 2nd December 2020, including the following new features:

• Added more organizations to index as well as some descriptions (currently 64 organizations).
• Tagged majority of organizations in the database (12761).
• Added a few hundred more abstracts.
• All places with a known location has a map.
• The initial version of the Indigenous glossary of terms has been completed.
• Fixed a couple encoding bugs (missing divs in transcribed enclosures, unwanted text edits).
• Removed titles and roles from Despatch citations as per request from Principal Investigator.
• "Mentions of [entity] in the documents" in the indexes are now sorted by date sent and date received when available.

This is the third completely static version of the site, in compliance with the Project Endings Principles for Digital Longevity.

A new version of the Colonial Despatches site, edition 2.1, was published on 9th July 2020, including the following new features:

• Several new sections have been added to the About page, including:
  
  • Colonial Office Staff and Consultants
  • The Despatches at Court
  • Decolonizing the Despatches
  • Glossary of Terms
• Many more biographies and abstracts have been added to the collection.
• The search page now allows the use of wildcards (* = anything and ? = zero or one character). This can be helpful when searching for names or terms that may be inconsistently spelled.
• The facsimile browser has been rewritten to improve its responsiveness.
• Encoding Documentation and Guidelines have been updated.

This is the second completely static version of the site, in compliance with the Project Endings Principles for Digital Longevity.

274 new page-images (in three different sizes) from the following volume have been added to the Colonial Despatches collection: RG7 G8C Volume 18 (BC 1871 Despatches from London). These will now be linked into the transcription documents.

579 new page-images (in three different sizes) from the following volume have been added to the Colonial Despatches collection: RG7 G8C Vol 17 (British Columbia 1870 Despatches from London). These will now be linked into the transcription documents.

995 new page-images (in three different sizes) from the following volume have been added to the Colonial Despatches collection: CO 60 Vol 42 (BC 1870 Public Offices and Miscellaneous). These will now be linked into the transcription documents.

666 new page-images (in three different sizes) from the following volume have been added to the Colonial Despatches collection: CO 60 Vol 41 (BC 1870 Despatches to London August to December). These will now be linked into the transcription documents.

515 new page-images (in three different sizes) from the following volume have been added to the Colonial Despatches collection: RG7 G8C Vol 16 (British Columbia 1869 Despatches from London). These will now be linked into the transcription documents.

1130 new page-images (in three different sizes) from the following volume have been added to the Colonial Despatches collection: CO 60 Vol 38 (British Columbia 1870 Despatches to London, January to May). These will now be linked into the transcription documents.