Recipe Transcribathon
When:
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Venue:
Birkbeck 43 Gordon Square
Join us as we participate in the annual Early Modern Recipes Online Collective (EMROC)’s recipe transcribathon, in which we will be contributing to a global effort to transcribe two seventeenth-century manuscript recipe books. The theme of this year’s transcribathon is ‘Women’s Health, Women’s Handbooks’. No experience necessary: just bring a laptop or tablet! If you like, in advance of the session you can sign up on FromThePage, the transcription platform, following the instructions on EMROC’s website. There will be full instructions provided at the event for signing up and getting started.
13.30-16.00
From 13.30 we will be transcribing as a group, led by Grace Murray (CCC), with some discussions about the manuscripts, the recipe ingredients, and style as we go along. Instructions for getting started will be provided if you would like to drop in later on in the afternoon. We will also be joining EMROC HQ via Zoom to learn more about this year’s manuscripts from the Royal College of Physicians (RCP MS688) and the Wellcome Collection (Wellcome MS 373).
Contact name:
Sue Wiseman
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Dr Grace Murray
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Grace Murray is a Lecturer in English Literature at Birkbeck. Her research explores the history of reading practical books in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and she is especially interested in what non-literary texts like recipe books and gardening manuals can tell us about the role of reading in shaping identity in the early modern period. Since 2021 she has coordinated collaborative events for manuscript transcription online and in-person, both as part of the pedagogical project 'Revealing Recipes' (University of York) and in conjunction with EMROC's annual 'transcribathon'.