#ALyear: 1817

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Anne Lister 1806-1818 journal full transcription available

Hello everyone, I come with wonderful news! Full transcriptions from 1806 to January 1818 of the Anne Lister’s journals are finally online on the West Yorkshire Archive catalogue. It’s amazing to see how the Anne Lister Transcription Project is making progress and I’m so honored to be a part of it.

What has been transcribed till now? Transcript for the following volumes are available online: 

SH:7/ML/E/26/1 – 1806-1814

SH:7/ML/E/26/2 – Aug-Nov 1816

SH:7/ML/E/26/3 – Nov 1816-Mar 1817

SH:7/ML/E/1 – 21 Mar 1817-25 Jan 1818

[note: clicking the links will redirect you to the “volume level entry” in the online catalogue. There you can find all the info on that volume, everything you need to know about how to give credit and the link to a .pdf which is the transcript of that specific volume.]

How to access the transcript? I’m gonna directly quote from the WYAS website: “A full pdf version for these volumes can be found on the volume level entry in our online catalogue (...) Keyword searchable versions of the transcripts are included in each page entry within our online catalogue.”

In each page entry you will find the transcript for that specific diary page in the description box, like this:

You can easily search for words doing cmd+f (I think is ctrl+f in windows) and writing the word you are interested in.

A thing that is worth mentioning is that the .pdf files follow transcription editing rules. This means that they can be quite difficult to read (and search) because there is a heavily use of square brackets since Anne Lister abbreviated almost every word. Just quickly skimming through one of the pdfs will give you an idea of what I’m saying > SH-7-ML-E-1_Anne-Lister-Diary-Transcription.pdf

If you’re interest in following the progress of the Transcription Project you can visit the page dedicated to it: Anne Lister - Diary Transcription Project. There you can find all you need to know about how everything is progressing, who’s participating + info & links if you wanna join the project yourself.

Well, have a wonderful read and let me know what are the most interesting and curious things you find about Anne!

West Yorkshire Archive Service useful links:

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