Colonial Despatches

The complete collection of 1208 page images for CO 305 Vol 17 (in three different sizes) have been added to the collection. These cover the 1861 Vancouver Island Despatches to London. These will now be linked into the transcription documents.

Four new correspondence documents from 1859 have been added to the correspondence, transcribed by Marion Massey and marked up by Petria Arienzale. The total document count is now 7151.

Thanks to some excellent work from Petria Arienzale, abstracts have now been added for all 1854 documents. We now have abstracts for all years between 1846 and 1854.

Several thousand OAI-PMH records have been regenerated to take account of updates to despatches files and other XML documents in the collection. The process currently takes a long time, so it's only done every few months. OAI metadata records for the collection are now up to date.

The Colonial Despatches project has been added to the DH Commons project list. We are hoping through this to attract collaborators from other institutions who may be interested in researching, writing, and proofreading.

Today the Colonial Despatches Project welcomes its fourth directed reading student, Petria Arienzale. She'll start work tomorrow on some of the biographies, and over the next few weeks she'll be learning about XML, TEI, oXygen and a host of other components of our work.

The complete collection of 712 page images for RG7 G8C Vol 9 (in three different sizes) have been added to the collection. These cover the second part of 1860-61 BC Despatches from London. We originally had only the first 25 of these images.

361 new images (in three different sizes) have been added to the collection. These cover the second part of BC 1859 Despatches from London.

Over 400 new images (in three different sizes) have been added to the collection. These cover the BC 1859 Despatches from London.

439 new images (in three different sizes) have been added to the collection. These cover the Vancouver Island 1862-63 Despatches from London.