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Thank you for all your help! Read our 'Project in Review' blog post here. If you would like to help us with our final review of the finished transcriptions, please read the instructions posted on Talk.

Results

The final transcriptions are now available on the Lancaster Digital Collections platform. You can view them here: https://digitalcollections.lancaster.ac.uk/collections/davy/1.

Read our project review blog post here.

Read papers from our special issue of Notes and Records: the Royal Society Journal of the History of Science via the links below:

Sharon Ruston, Eleanor Lucy Bird, Andrew Lacey, Frank James, Jo Taylor and Samantha Blickhan, 'Humphry Davy's Notebooks' https://doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.2024.0002

Sharon Ruston, 'Protean Forms in Humphry Davy's Notebooks' https://doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.2023.0090

Frank A. J. L. James, 'Moving scientific knowledge from the laboratory to the theatre: Humphry Davy's Lecture practice at the Royal Institution, 1801–1812' https://doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.2023.0086

Samantha Blickhan, Eleanor Bird, Andrew Lacey, and Alexis Wolf, 'The benefits of ‘slow’ development: towards a best practice for sustainable technical infrastructure through the Davy Notebooks Project' https://doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.2024.0003

Andrew Lacey, 'Davy's Notemaking' https://doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.2023.0094

Eleanor Lucy Bird, 'Humphry Davy, transatlantic slavery and his constructions of racial difference in an early notebook' https://doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.2023.0089