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Digital Humanities Lab, Exeter
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We support digital approaches in research, teaching and outreach at the University of Exeter and beyond.
https://www.exeter.ac.uk/research/digitalhumanities/
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Digital Humanities Lab, Exeter @dhlabexeter.bsky.social · Nov 28
Hello. We're the Digital Humanities Lab at the University of Exeter and you can find out more about the work we do here: www.exeter.ac.uk/research/dig...

We support teaching and research including the digital preservation, analysis and display of cultural heritage materials, text and objects.
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DH Lab's collaboration on the Sycamore Gap Tree slice digitisation project has featured in the 'We Are The Possible' anthology for the COP30 in Brazil!

Check it out:
greenfutures.exeter.ac.uk/our-impact/w... (Page 39)

#Digital #Humanities #DigitalHumanities #HASS #COP30 #Brazil #WeAreThePossible
We Are The Possible at COP30 - Planet Forest · GreenFutures
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November 11, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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In 19th C Exeter, Guy Fawkes Day was a major occasion. The festivities centred on a huge bonfire in front of the Cathedral 🔥

During this fiery festival it was traditional to allow the youth special freedom to celebrate. Fireworks, burning tar barrels & injuries were a feature of this riotous night.
a monochrome print taken from a painting of an enormous smoking bonfire in front of Exeter cathedral. In the foreground a large group of people surround the fire. To the bottom is the caption 'From a Painting, Guy Fawkes Night in Exeter, by Mr FF White
November 5, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Have you heard the spooky tale of the Hairy Hand? 👻✋

Research papers relating to the Dartmoor legend of the Hairy Hand (as well as black dogs, ghosts, vampires, monsters, witches & more!) can be found in the archive of folklorist Theo Brown.

📷 EUL MS 105

#FolkloreThursday #HairyHand #Halloween
Green background with a cartoon cobweb in the top left-hand corner and a cute cartoon ghost underneath. Next to the ghost is written in white text: 'Explore spooky tales in the archive of folklorist Theo Brown!'. Underneath in green text is written: 'EUL MS 105/10 and EUL MS 105/28 from the University of Exeter Library's Special Collections. On the right is a photograph of of a green drawer of index cards labelled 'Devon Folklore' with an index card entitled 'Hairy Hand' protruding from contents of the drawer. Underneath is another photograph of a typescript document entitled 'The Hairy Hand'.
October 30, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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Today is the RSPB's Feed the Birds Day! 🪶

Some of the most common birds we feed in UK gardens are house sparrows, wood pigeons, starlings, and magpies. These early 19th century watercolours of birds are from our archives.

Which is your favourite?

📷 EUL MS 23; digitised by @dhlabexeter.bsky.social
Watercolour illustration of a house sparrow in side profile, perched on what appears to be the top of a post. The handwritten caption above reads: 'Fringilla domestica. The House Sparrow'. Watercolour illustration of a rotund pigeon in side profile, sat on a branch. The handwritten caption above reads: ‘Columba cenas. The Wild Pigeon’. Watercolour illustration of a starling in side profile, perched on a lichen-covered branch. The handwritten caption above reads: 'Sturnus Vulgaris [?] The Starling'. The watercolour is dated 22 June 1804. Watercolour illustration of a magpie in side profile, perched on the ground, as if about to take flight. The handwritten caption above reads: ‘Corvus Pica La Pie The Magpie'.
October 29, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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As Halloween approaches, things have been getting spooky in the DH Lab!

Last week, the interns were introduced to our 3D printers and CAD software 🎃

We have had a range of seasonally appropriate prints - from ghost dogs to an articulated glowing skeleton! 🩻

#Digital #Humanities #3D #3DPrint #CAD
October 28, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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Check out this fascinating research from the Florence4D project that is coordinated by Prof. Fabrizio Nevola, co-director of the Exeter DH Lab, and Cambridge Co-Investigator, Dr Donal Cooper!

news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...

#DH #Digital #Humanities #DigitalHumanities #DHLab #Exeter #3D #Research
Exeter researchers lead digital reconstruction of historic Italian chapel and altarpiece for international art exhibition
A beautiful altarpiece finished by a Renaissance-era master painter has been digitally reconstructed by scholars at the University of Exeter for an international exhibition. The Strozzi Altarpiece, wi...
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October 23, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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📢TODAY📢

Tune in to hear @bhamhistory.bsky.social and @emilymayvine.bsky.social discuss our unique methodology 👇

Weds 22 Oct, 5pm
Zoom
#EarlyModern 🗃️ #DigitalHumanities @cemsexeter.bsky.social @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social @uoearchhist.bsky.social @dhlabexeter.bsky.social
materialwills.bsky.social The Material Culture of Wills Project @materialwills.bsky.social · Oct 14
Project Research Fellows Harry Smith and Emily Vine are looking forward to speaking as part of the Warwick History 'Post-Doc' Club series, next Wed 22 October @ 17.00.

They'll be discussing 'Digitization & Citizen Science'📜💻

Follow this link for Zoom details:
warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/his...
A poster with a white background and black text, with a blue border at the top of the poster, and photographs of manuscripts. The title of the poster reads Warwick History ‘POST-DOC’ CLUB METHODOLOGIES SERIES. Online Meeting: Weds 22 October at 5pm DIGITIZATION & CITIZEN SCIENCE: Inviting collaborative research to transcribe handwriting. With Harry Smith and Emily Vine of the Material Culture of Wills, 1540-1790 project at the University of Exeter.
October 22, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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Last week, the DH Interns were introduced to Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI). RTI is a method of creating an interactive digital image of an object with a moveable light source

#RTI #ReflectanceTransformationImaging #HASS #Humanities #Digital #DigitalHumanities #AI #DH #DigitalResearch
October 21, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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The DH Lab is very excited to be collaborating on this fascinating project alongside partners at @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy, @nationaltrust.org.uk, @uniofreading.bsky.social and @uniofnottingham.bsky.social

#Digital #Humanities #Exeter #DHLab #ExeterDH #Tudor #History #DigitalResearch #DH
October 9, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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The DH Lab is excited to be collaborating with partners at National Archives, National Trust, Reading & Nottingham in a new £1.5m AHRC project to make available Henry VIII's Valor Ecclesiasticus. 'Rediscovering The Tudor Domesday' is led at Exeter by Prof James Clark with Co-Lead Dr Charlotte Tupman
October 9, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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This term we have been thrilled to welcome a fabulous new set of DH interns!

Internships with the lab are a unique, exciting opportunity for HASS students to learn all the digital research methods and practical skills that the lab has to offer!

#DigitalResearch #CaptureOne #PhaseOne #Photography
October 6, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Yesterday marked 47 years since St Luke's (teacher training) College merged with the University of Exeter.

This University Archive throwback shows St Luke's (then the Diocesan Training School) in 1855.

📷 EUL UA/add.29; digitised by @dhlabexeter.bsky.social

#ThrowbackThursday #UniOfExeterArchive
Illustration showing a view of the North front of St Luke's as seen from Heavitree Road. The towers of the Cathedral can be seen in the distance. In front of St Luke's a person rides by on a horse, and two women stroll with parasols.
October 2, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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Wondering how your humanities skills fit in the digital world?

ExCode is a completely FREE Python bootcamp. ExCode empowers students from all disciplines to explore digital tools and coding skills in ways that enhance research, creativity, and employability

#Humanities #Python #CodingForEveryone
September 29, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Happy World Dream Day! 💭

What did you last dream about?

These dream interpretations can be found in the book 'Nummits and Crummits: Devonshire Customs, Characteristics, and Folk-lore' by Sarah Hewett (1900).

📷 Baring-Gould Library 0454

#WorldDreamDay #Devon #Folklore #RareBooks
Opened book lying on a book cushion, held open by a snake weight. The opened pages list interpretations for dreams about angels, babies, bells, bees, carriages, cats, cards, dancing, the dead, ducks, eggs, empty vessels, eating, fish, fire, flowers, garden, glass, gold, hares, horses, ivy, inns, and jackdaws.
September 25, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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Check out this Smithsonian Magazine article on the Sycamore Gap Tree. It discusses solving the mystery of the iconic tree's age and the DH Lab's role in this fascinating new research

www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/b...

#SycamoreGap #DHLab #Digital #Humanities #DigitalHumanities #RTI #Historic
By Counting Growth Rings, Researchers Solve the Mystery of the Sycamore Gap Tree's Age
A new analysis shows that the historic tree was at least 100 to 120 years old in September 2023, when two men illegally chopped it down
www.smithsonianmag.com
September 23, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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To accompany our 'Period Pieces' exhibition, Special Collections Assistant Lisa has written a brand-new blog post, highlighting the challenges of researching menstruation in archives and rare books.

Find it here! ➡️ specialcollections.exeter.ac.uk/2025/09/22/n...

#Archives #Exhibition #Menstruation
exeterunispeccoll.bsky.social University of Exeter Special Collections @exeterunispeccoll.bsky.social · Jul 29
We are delighted to announce another new exhibition:

'Period Pieces: Exploring Responses to Menstruation in Archives and Rare Books'

This exhibition is free for all to visit on Level +1 of the Forum Library on the University of Exeter's Streatham Campus!

#Archives #Exhibitions #Menstruation
Display case with four shelves, featuring a range of items, including books, a student magazine, a diary, a postcard, a typescript poem, and - on the lowest shelf - an artwork about menstrual taboos created by a medical student at the University of Exeter.
September 23, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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Autumn officially begins today with the Autumn Equinox! 🍂

Following a very warm summer, spectacular autumn colours are expected this year - we can't wait!

This poem was written and illustrated by the writer, poet and librettist, Ronald Duncan.

📷 EUL MS 397/2/2/2

#AutumnEquinox #Autumn #Archives
Painting of a tree with a grey trunk and leaves of green, red, purple and orange. Next to the tree is a poem: 'Pheasants feathers of amethyst, Magenta, crimson, burnt sienna & brown, Leaf the maple's branches with a mauve mantle, As it stands sentinel to the undying Fall.' Ronald Duncan's signature and the date '9 Sept - 77' are noted in the bottom right hand corner.
September 22, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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We are excited to share some more information about how the DH Lab have been working with Historic England to explore experimental imaging techniques to assist with research into the iconic Sycamore Gap tree

#SycamoreGap #SycamoreGapTree #RTI #HistoricEngland #DHTeam #DH #DHLab #Exeter #ExeterUni
September 18, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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The DH Lab has been mentioned in this Autumn's edition of the Chamber of Commerce's Profile Magazine!

'Out Digital Humanities Lab enables creative and heritage organisations to work with 3D scanning, virtual reconstructions and digital storytelling'

#DHLab #Digital #Humanities #DigitalHumanities
September 15, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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It is officially Welcome Week here at @exeter.ac.uk! We are excited to have all our new & returning HASS students back on campus!

Whether you are familiar with our work or you have never accessed the lab before, please get in touch to see how we might help you with assignments, research & teaching!
September 15, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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We love this tiny illustration of a Bridgettine nun engrossed in a book! She can be found in the border of Sister Mary Dominic's vow in the Syon Abbey archive.

📷 EUL MS 389/COM/2/2/3/4 (date: 1924-27)

#TinyTuesday #SyonAbbey #Nuntastic #Archives
Illustration of a nun standing on the left-hand corner of a blue border. She is wearing a grey habit, black veil and a white linen crown forming a cross over her head, with five red spots that represent the five wounds of Christ. She is holding a book bound in brown leather in front of her, which she appears completely engrossed in. To her right are words in Latin.
September 9, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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It is great to see coverage of the DH Team’s future role in helping Historic England explore the use of advanced imaging techniques to accurately date the felled Sycamore Gap tree. We feel privileged to be collaborating on this important project and look forward to sharing more soon

#SycamoreGap 🌳
September 4, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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We are delighted to announce a new temporary exhibition to mark the 70th anniversary of the University of Exeter!

This exhibition features the Royal Charter, awarded in 1955.

The exhibition is open for everyone to visit on Level 0 of the Forum Library on @exeter.ac.uk's Streatham Campus.
Display case with four shelves, featuring a range of items, including a congratulatory address, photographs, a special issue newspaper, the Royal Charter of the University of Exeter, and a speech made by Queen Elizabeth II in 1956.
September 3, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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Thank you so much for all your hard work in the DH team, Lizzy! You will be missed here in the lab, but we wish you all the best in your next exciting chapter!

#DigitalHumanities #DHTeam #DHLab #Exeter #UoE #ExeterUni #ExeterUniversity #DigitalHumanities #Research
lizzywilliamson.bsky.social Lizzy Williamson @lizzywilliamson.bsky.social · Sep 1
I'll really miss being in the fantastic DH team @dhlabexeter.bsky.social - it has been a wonderful home to me since 2017 and I am excited to see them continue to succeed...
September 1, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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It is #GingerCatAppreciationDay ! To celebrate, please enjoy this picture of our gorgeous ginger campus cat, Napoleon!

We often have the pleasure of spotting him outside the DH Lab!

#Napoleon #Exeter #DHLab #DH #ExeterUni #ExeterUniversity #Digital #humanities #Devon #Cats #Cat #CatsofBluesky
September 1, 2025 at 2:08 PM