Fortitude and Frailty: Reading the Human Condition
The Department of the Humanities at Sheffield Hallam University will be hosting an edit-a-thon on Saturday, 22 November 2014 focused on historical authors and printers from the Yorkshire region.
This Edit-a-Thon springs from the university’s research expertise in popular fiction and regional newspaper printing. A collaboration between the English and History subject groups, it will integrate neglected or absent Yorkshire authors and printers into Wikipedia and share the department’s ongoing research in Middlebrow fiction and the provincial press with the wider community. Participants will have the opportunity to explore the Sheffield Hallam University Readerships and Literary Cultures 1900-1950 and British Library Nineteenth Century Newspaper collections. Presenters will include Sheffield Hallam Humanities staff.