Crowdsourced Transcriptions of Humphry Davy's Notebooks
Lead Research Organisation:
Lancaster University
Department Name: English and Creative Writing
Abstract
The Royal Institution of Great Britain (RI) holds an unparalleled collection of Sir Humphry Davy's notebooks. One of the most famous chemists of the nineteenth century, Davy used these notebooks to record his experiments and to write poetry. There is much evidence from the previous AHRC project on Davy's letters that the public is interested in Davy, in his unpublished manuscripts, and, particularly, in his poetry and its relation to his science. Davy's notebooks have yet to be transcribed and they are only available to readers who visit the RI archive in person. This project will crowdsource transcriptions of five of Davy's notebooks from the Zooniverse (https://www.zooniverse.org/) community of 1.7 million registered volunteers. High-quality images of the manuscripts will be produced and made available on a freely accessible website accompanied with the transcriptions. This current project will ask the Zooniverse participants to reflect upon how poetry helped construct scientific knowledge using the example of Davy, and to think about how the arts and sciences might work together today. Digitising the notebooks makes them available to a much larger audience and creates a resource for future research. It also means that the manuscripts themselves, which are very fragile, can be carefully preserved by the RI while promoting their historical holdings to the world. The Zooniverse participants will learn new skills with an innovative new project builder created to render Davy's notebook page on screen. Previous surveys of the Zooniverse community have found that, overwhelmingly, people engage in transcription projects because they enjoy contributing to a scholarly endeavour. Related activities pursued during the previous grant demonstrated how transcription can be both personally satisfying and confidence-building. Learning about Davy caused people to change their minds about the idea of science and the arts as 'two cultures'.
Planned Impact
The proposed project continues the impact work of the previous AHRC Leadership Fellowship to 'encourage a wide range of beneficiaries to rethink the relationship of science to society and culture through the example of Humphry Davy'. Primary beneficiaries are the Zooniverse participants but members of other user-groups can also take part: e.g. the University of the Third Age (U3A); local and family history groups in the UK; members of the Royal Institution of Great Britain (RI); participants in the 2017 and 2018 Davy MOOC; and those who attended impact events held during and since the fellowship (total of 16 events; 594 attended). Lancaster University, the RI, and the PI will promote the project.
According to a 2015 survey, the Zooniverse community is made up of more men than women (roughly a 60/40 split) and includes people aged from 18 and 71. They are mostly UK- or USA-based and over half are in full or part-time work employment (https://blog.zooniverse.org/2015/03/05/who-are-the-zooniverse-community-we-asked-them/). This new audience differs from that of the MOOC as surveyed, the demographic of which was overwhelmingly female (606 to 210) and older: 365 of the 816 were over 65 years old and only 30 were aged between 18 and 25.
It is likely that many of the 2633 who participated in the MOOC will register with Zooniverse and take part in this project. The pre- and post-course surveys for the MOOC, filled in by 572 people and 197 people respectively, revealed the range of people interested in Davy who had taken this course: ex-miners; dentists; anaesthetists; drug counsellors; chemists; historians; historical novelists; geologists; teachers; museum workers; and family historians. MOOC feedback demonstrates how this project will benefit users. When asked why they had decided to take the course, 37% respondents said in order to 'learn a skill'; 63% said 'to be informed about social, cultural or political topics and current affairs'; and 57% 'to share what I've learned with my community, friends or family'. 79% chose to do the course 'to vitalise my mind, learn for pleasure or satisfy intellectual curiosity'. 72% of respondents said the course had helped them meet their learning goals; one specifically mentioned 'Reading the manuscripts which I have found very difficult in the past'.
The resource produced by this project will broaden debate about poetry and science. In the pre-course MOOC survey respondents said that they wanted 'To learn how science interacts with poetry' and were 'Interested in how arts/sciences used to coexist more in the past'. In the MOOC steps on the 'two cultures' of the arts and sciences, one participant responded with 'We need more spaces where both sciences and arts can come together'.
The motivations of massive virtual communities, including the Zooniverse, have been much discussed; see, for example, Eveleigh et al., 'Designing for Dabblers and Deterring Drop-Outs in Citizen Science' (http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1418573/1/p2985-eveleigh.pdf). This article finds that benefits are intrinsic (i.e. a result of the task itself), such as 'subject interest and curiosity, competence in the transcription task, and an enjoyment derived from taking part in the project' (p. 2986). Participants' identification with the goal of the project is a strong motivation too. Extrinsic factors, such as 'interaction with other volunteers, e.g. status gained for expertise or high quality work', were found to be less motivating by comparison (p. 2987).
The general public will benefit from the digitisation of this material as will the RI and the purchase of a scanner will have considerable impact on the RI's future digitisation work, including opportunities to further train staff. The PDRA will benefit from this project because the technical, public-facing, and project management skills required will be of use in a future career. The MA student will similarly gain useful project experience for his/her CV.
According to a 2015 survey, the Zooniverse community is made up of more men than women (roughly a 60/40 split) and includes people aged from 18 and 71. They are mostly UK- or USA-based and over half are in full or part-time work employment (https://blog.zooniverse.org/2015/03/05/who-are-the-zooniverse-community-we-asked-them/). This new audience differs from that of the MOOC as surveyed, the demographic of which was overwhelmingly female (606 to 210) and older: 365 of the 816 were over 65 years old and only 30 were aged between 18 and 25.
It is likely that many of the 2633 who participated in the MOOC will register with Zooniverse and take part in this project. The pre- and post-course surveys for the MOOC, filled in by 572 people and 197 people respectively, revealed the range of people interested in Davy who had taken this course: ex-miners; dentists; anaesthetists; drug counsellors; chemists; historians; historical novelists; geologists; teachers; museum workers; and family historians. MOOC feedback demonstrates how this project will benefit users. When asked why they had decided to take the course, 37% respondents said in order to 'learn a skill'; 63% said 'to be informed about social, cultural or political topics and current affairs'; and 57% 'to share what I've learned with my community, friends or family'. 79% chose to do the course 'to vitalise my mind, learn for pleasure or satisfy intellectual curiosity'. 72% of respondents said the course had helped them meet their learning goals; one specifically mentioned 'Reading the manuscripts which I have found very difficult in the past'.
The resource produced by this project will broaden debate about poetry and science. In the pre-course MOOC survey respondents said that they wanted 'To learn how science interacts with poetry' and were 'Interested in how arts/sciences used to coexist more in the past'. In the MOOC steps on the 'two cultures' of the arts and sciences, one participant responded with 'We need more spaces where both sciences and arts can come together'.
The motivations of massive virtual communities, including the Zooniverse, have been much discussed; see, for example, Eveleigh et al., 'Designing for Dabblers and Deterring Drop-Outs in Citizen Science' (http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1418573/1/p2985-eveleigh.pdf). This article finds that benefits are intrinsic (i.e. a result of the task itself), such as 'subject interest and curiosity, competence in the transcription task, and an enjoyment derived from taking part in the project' (p. 2986). Participants' identification with the goal of the project is a strong motivation too. Extrinsic factors, such as 'interaction with other volunteers, e.g. status gained for expertise or high quality work', were found to be less motivating by comparison (p. 2987).
The general public will benefit from the digitisation of this material as will the RI and the purchase of a scanner will have considerable impact on the RI's future digitisation work, including opportunities to further train staff. The PDRA will benefit from this project because the technical, public-facing, and project management skills required will be of use in a future career. The MA student will similarly gain useful project experience for his/her CV.
People |
ORCID iD |
Sharon Ruston (Principal Investigator) | |
Andrew Lacey (Researcher) |
Description | What were the most significant achievements from the award? Using Zooniverse (https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/humphrydavy/davy-notebooks-project), a platform that enables 'people-powered research', we crowdsourced transcription of five of Davy's early notebooks (dating from 1795 to 1805). The response was astounding: in only 19 days, 505 participants from around the world transcribed the 626 pages. The project discussion forum (called 'Talk' on the Zooniverse platform) was used simultaneously to ask what the notebooks told us about the relationship between art and science. During the pilot project there were 254 discussions and 896 comments posted. To what extent were the award objectives met? If you can, briefly explain why any key objectives were not met. Yes, objectives were met in full. How might the findings be taken forward and by whom? I have applied for an AHRC Research Grant to enable me to get the remaining 75 Davy notebooks transcribed. This has now been awarded (project started in Jan 2021 and will go on for 3 years). |
Exploitation Route | Through Davy's notebooks we can trace his thought processes as he worked. They record critical scientific experiments; drafts of important lectures and publications; geological drawings; character portraits of Davy's eminent scientific contemporaries; to-do lists, shopping lists, and autobiographical notes; references to Davy's reading (e.g. in 15/C, to Hannah More's Cheap Repository Tracts and notes from Francis Bacon); and contain a great deal of poetry. Lines of poetry jostle for space on the same page as accounts of chemical discoveries. Notebook pages - torn, stained, and burned - reveal that Davy wrote poetry in his laboratory while at his scientific work. The five notebooks have produced revelatory new material that will be of interest to academics and members of the public. For example, there has long been a debate about Davy's unorthodox religious beliefs in his early life, when he was the friend and almost daily companion of S. T. Coleridge. In notebook HD/13/D, Davy declares: 'Amidst the delightful scenery of the wye, I was sometimes for a short time a physiopatheist'. This newly coined term suggests a specific type of pantheism, influenced by his identity as a natural philosopher. In a different vein, transcription of notebook 13F has revealed, for the first time, Davy's racist stereotyping of different nations. Davy's political views need to be reassessed in the light of such discoveries. Transcription of the notebooks will benefit academics working in a number of fields, including History (early nineteenth-century History, the History of Science, the History of Medicine, and Cultural History), Digital Humanities, Literature (Romantic-Period Literature, Literature and Science Studies), Medical Humanities, Sociology (Science and Technology Studies), Cultural Studies, Scientists, Medics, and Engineers. There has been a huge surge of interest in Humphry Davy, partly because he is an exemplary figure in the study of the relationship between science and literature. The LitSci field has been growing over the past few decades and now has a dedicated society (the British Society of Literature and Science), journal (Literature and Science), and more than one book series (Professor Ruston, the PI, is a co-editor of the Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine). Davy's nitrous oxide experiments also mean that he is of interest to those in Literature and Medicine studies, which also have a number of dedicated conferences, societies, journals and publications. |
Sectors | Culture Heritage Museums and Collections |
URL | http://humphrydavy.org.uk/notebooks/notebooks/ |
Description | The crowdsourced transcriptions using the platform Zooniverse (https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/humphrydavy/davy-notebooks-project) have contributed to increasing the confidence, technical skills, and digital literacy of our 'citizen scientists'. |
First Year Of Impact | 2000 |
Sector | Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Education,Leisure Activities, including Sports, Recreation and Tourism,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections |
Impact Types | Cultural Societal |
Description | Humphry Davy's Notebooks: How Poetry Helped Create Scientific Knowledge |
Amount | £1,000,000 (GBP) |
Funding ID | AH/V002015/1 |
Organisation | Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 01/2021 |
End | 02/2024 |
Description | 'Excel in Science' webinar, University of Nottingham: 'Re-Emerging Research' (Wednesday 16 March 2022, 1-2pm, on Zoom) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | 'Excel in Science' webinar, University of Nottingham: 'Re-Emerging Research' (Wednesday 16 March 2022, 1-2pm, on Zoom) |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | 'Zooniverse - A Beginner's Guide' workshop, Archives West Midlands (Wednesday 16 November 2022, 2.30-4.30pm) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | 'Zooniverse - A Beginner's Guide' workshop, Archives West Midlands (Wednesday 16 November 2022, 2.30-4.30pm) Davy Notebooks Project contributions: Samantha Blickhan 'A Brief Introduction to Crowdsourcing on the Zooniverse Platform' Andrew Lacey 'The Davy Notebooks Project' |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://wp.lancs.ac.uk/davynotebooks/events/ |
Description | - Gave an online talk to the Regency Fiction Writers group (27/1/22) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Gave an online talk to the Regency Fiction Writers group (27/1/22). The group is based in the US. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://thebeaumonde.com/main/ |
Description | - Organised and chaired panel at the British Society for Literature and Science conference (7-9/4/22) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | - Organised and chaired panel at the British Society for Literature and Science conference (7-9/4/22). We also held a trancribe-a-thon. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.bsls.ac.uk/2021/07/fhqsga/ |
Description | Bradford Literature Festival talk |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Gave talk and signed books at the Bradford Literature Festival and did a pre-recorded interview for radio (26/6/22). Was mainly on Frankenstein book but I also talked about Davy Notebooks. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.bradfordlitfest.co.uk/ |
Description | British Association for Romantic Studies/North American Society for the Study of Romanticism Joint International Conference 2022: New Romanticisms (Tuesday 2-Friday 5 August 2022, Edge Hill University) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Davy Notebooks Project Roundtable: Andrew Lacey 'New Thoughts on Romantic Digital Editions: The Davy Notebooks Project' Davy Notebooks Project Panel: Alexis Wolf 'The Son of Liberty: Literary and Scientific Experimentation in the Davy Notebooks' Andrew Lacey 'Private Investigations? Davy's Notemaking' Eleanor Bird 'Humphry Davy, Agriculture, and Abolitionists and Advocates of the Slave Trade in His Network' |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.nassr.ca/nassr_bars_2022 |
Description | British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies 51st Annual Conference: Indifference and Engagement (Friday 7 January 2022, 4-6pm, on Zoom) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Roundtable discussion. Andrew Lacey presented on 'Digitizing Eighteenth-Century Letters and Manuscripts: A Conversation: The Davy Notebooks Project' |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/ |
Description | Davy Notebooks Project 'Using the Zooniverse Project Builder' workshop (20 May 2022, Lancaster University) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Davy Notebooks Project 'Using the Zooniverse Project Builder' workshop (20 May 2022, Lancaster University) |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://wp.lancs.ac.uk/davynotebooks/events/ |
Description | Davy Notebooks Project In-person Transcribe-a-thon (14 May 2022, University College London) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Transcribe-a-thon and we gave talks. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://wp.lancs.ac.uk/davynotebooks/events/ |
Description | Davy Notebooks Project Online Volunteers' Meeting (25 February 2022, on Zoom) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Davy Notebooks Project Online Volunteers' Meeting (25 February 2022, on Zoom). I gave a talk. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://wp.lancs.ac.uk/davynotebooks/events/ |
Description | Davy Notebooks Project Online Volunteers' Meeting (27 June 2022, on Teams) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Davy Notebooks Project Online Volunteers' Meeting (27 June 2022, on Teams) |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://wp.lancs.ac.uk/davynotebooks/events/ |
Description | Gave paper at BSLS conference |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Gave paper at British Society for Literature and Science, online, April 2021 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.bsls.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/BSLS-2021-Programme.pdf |
Description | Gave paper at Churchill College, Cambridge conference |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Gave 20 minute paper at Diaries conference online for hybrid academic conference held at Churchill College, Cambridge |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://socialhistory.org.uk/shs_event/cfp-keeping-and-making-diaries-historical-sources-and-perspec... |
Description | Gave paper at Oxford Symposium on 'Imagining AI' (9-10/9/22) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | - Invited to give paper at Oxford Symposium on 'Imagining AI' (9-10/9/22). Was mainly about Frankenstein but also discussed Davy Notebooks Project. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://hsm.ox.ac.uk/imagining-ai |
Description | Gave paper at University of Chieti-Pescara conference, Italy, October 2021 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Gave paper at University of Chieti-Pescara conference, Italy, "The Language of Science in the Long Nineteenth Century", online, October 2021 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.dilass.unich.it/sites/st06/files/xi_cusve_conference_programme_27-28_october_2021_0.pdf |
Description | Gave paper at the British Association for Romantic Studies Digital Event (16/6/22) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Invited to give paper at the British Association for Romantic Studies Digital Event (16/6/22) online |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=4245 |
Description | Gave research seminar paper to the Lit/Sci Lab at the University of Birmingham (6/5/22) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | - Gave research seminar paper to the Lit/Sci Lab at the University of Birmingham (6/5/22) |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/istemmics/lit-sci-lab.aspx |
Description | Gave talk and signed books at the Oxford Literature Festival (28/3/22) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Gave talk and signed books at the Oxford Literature Festival (28/3/22). While this mainly concerned my book on Frankenstein, I also talked about the Davy Notebooks project and Davy's links with Frankenstein. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://oxfordliteraryfestival.org/ |
Description | Gave talk at the Athenaeum Club on Davy's Notebooks, 16/11/22 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Gave talk at the Athenaeum Club on Davy's Notebooks, 16/11/22 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.athenaeumclub.co.uk/ |
Description | Gave to talk to the Lunar Society, Litchfield (6/1/23) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Gave in person talk to the Lunar Society, Litchfield at a hybrid event. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.erasmusdarwin.org/event/the-notebooks-of-sir-humphry-davy-1778-1829-by-professor-sharon-... |
Description | Lancaster University Library Festival workshop (25/9/22) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | - Lancaster University Library Festival workshop (25/9/22). As part of the event, we had a Creative Writer run a session on journalling and wellbeing (connected to Davy's notebooks). |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/library/whats-on/library-festival-2022/ |
Description | Meet the Manuscript event with the Bodleian Library, Oxford (13/6/22) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Meet the Manuscript event with the Bodleian Library, Oxford (13/6/22). Though this was mainly about Frankenstein manuscripts, I also talked about one of Davy's notebook pages too. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/meet-the-manuscripts-online-lecture-series |
Description | Online Transcribe-a-thon |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | We held an online transcribe-a-thon where participants took part in transcribing the notebooks of Sir Humphry Davy, 4th August 2021. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Paper given at NASSR conference |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | I gave a paper on Humphry Davy's letters to the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism at the University of Chicago in July 2019. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://nassrchicago2019.wordpress.com/ |
Description | Part of roundtable at conference |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Part of roundtable at British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies 51st Annual Conference: Indifference and Engagement (Friday 7 January 2022, 4-6pm, on Zoom) |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/ |
Description | Plenary paper at 'Romantic Interventions' conference, University of Dortmund (3-5/2/22) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Plenary paper at 'Romantic Interventions' conference, University of Dortmund (3-5/2/22) online. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://rominter2021.wixsite.com/tudortmund |
Description | Plenary talk at the British Association for Romantic Studies conference |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | I gave the plenary talk for the British Association for Romantic Studies conference at the University of Nottingham in July 2019 to an audience of more than a c. 150. The talk was on Humphry Davy's notebooks and was the Stephen Copley Memorial Lecture. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/conference/fac-arts/english/romantic-studies/index.aspx |
Description | Project panel at conference |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | •Davy Notebooks Project Panel, British Association for Romantic Studies conference, online, August 2021 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://bars.ac.uk/conference2021/ |
Description | Public Talk on Davy at the Royal Institution |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | I gave a talk on Humphry Davy and the Royal Institution at the 'Romanticism and the RoyaI Institution' event organised by the in association with the London-Paris Romanticism Seminar and the Fordham Romanticism Group, New York. There were 225 present and it took place on 7/6/2019 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.rigb.org/whats-on/events-2019/june/public-romanticism-at-the-royal-institution |
Description | Public lecture for U3A Science and Technology group |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | January 2023 - 'Humphry Davy (1778-1829): His Life, Letters, and Notebooks', public lecture for U3A Science and Technology group (online; c. 75 attendees). |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMZOHesfhtQ |
Description | Research seminar on my book Creating Romanticism at the University of Dortmund (11/1/22) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Research seminar on my book Creating Romanticism at the University of Dortmund (11/1/22), chapter on Humphry Davy and the sublime. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Spoke at Lancaster Digital Collections Launch, September 2021 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Spoke at Lancaster Digital Collections Launch, September 2021 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/library/events/lancaster-digital-collections-public-launch |
Description | Talk for the Birmingham Lunar Society |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Andrew gave this talk 'Sir Humphry Davy: His Life, Letters, & Notebooks' to the Birmingham Lunar Society online (41 attendees); 22nd February 2023. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://lunarsociety.org.uk/event/sir-humphry-davy-1778-1829-his-life-letters-and-notebooks/ |
Description | Third run of DAVY MOOC |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | 605 people joined this massive open online course on Humphry Davy. This course was a repeat of the original course, which has now run three times. It runs for four weeks and learners gave excellent feedback on it once again. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/humphry-davy/1 |
Description | Unpublished Davy poem published in the Hampstead Literary Society Journal, 2 (2022) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | October 2022, Dr Andrew Lacey 'I view the cloud tinged by the western sun', previously unpublished Davy poem published in the Hampstead Literary Society Journal, 2 (2022) |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://hampsteadlitsoc.com/ |
Description | Volunteer Meeting |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | We held a Volunteers Meeting to meet with some of the Zooniverse participants in our Davy Notebook transcription project. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/humphrydavy/davy-notebooks-project |