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Yup, I'm the project's Estates and IT Departments, as well as the project's Director! Here is me putting together a flat pack desk. It 'only' took about 3 hours!
George builds an office desk. Photo by Charlotte Robinson.
On Wednesday 18th April 2018, the WCP team began work in the project's splendid new office in Buckhust Hill, Essex (address HERE). The office is on two levels, with three workspaces on the first floor and another, plus a tiny kitchen and toilet, on the second floor. We have now purchased nearly all the equipment we need, ranging from computers, to chairs, to a small fridge, microwave, kettle, pencils and paperclips.
*Job Announcement*
Sub-editor/Researcher - Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Salary: Starting from £32,127 per year
Employment Type: Fixed Term, ending 31 August 2020
Hours Per week (exclusive of lunch breaks): 35
Annual Leave: 30 days, in addition to public and bank holidays.
*Job Announcement*
Archivist - Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Salary: Starting from £31,327 per year
Employment Type: Fixed Term, ending 31 August 2020
Hours Per week (exclusive of lunch breaks): 35
Annual Leave: 30 days, in addition to public and bank holidays.
Very good news for myself and the A. R. Wallace Correspondence Project (WCP)! The agreement for the grant which will fund the project for 2 years and 9 months was officially signed today and work on the project is due to restart on December 1st! The funder is the John Templeton Foundation and the charity which will host the grant is the Charles Darwin Trust (CDT).
We are pleased to report that Wallace Letters Online has had a considerable amount of use over the last year from 01/07/2014 to 31/07/2015 - probably much more so than if the letters were published in a printed work. The stats are as follows:
The Wallace Correspondence Project has just released a new version of Wallace Letters Online (http://www.nhm.ac.uk/wallacelettersonline). Improvements include:
On the 28th April 2015 Ruth Benny, the WCP's Archivist, gave a talk about the project at the Linnean Society of London's conference 'From Cabinet to Internet: Digitising Natural History and Medical Manuscripts'. Here talk was entitled "A Life in Letters: The Wallace Correspondence Project" and it is now available as a video on Vimeo here: https://vimeo.com/128239695
The project has had a very productive year - far exceeded our aims for the period. If you would like to see a copy of the report it can be viewed HERE. We would like to thank the Wallace Centenary Celebration, directed by Richard Milner, who funded our project, and the John Templeton Foundation who funded Richard's project.
When the new version of the WCP's online archive of Wallace's manuscripts (i.e. Wallace Letters Online) is launched in a few weeks time, it will have a new feature which will enable users to look up biographical information about Wallace's correspondents. We started the task of researching and writing mini biographies for Wallace's c.1660 correspondents quite a while ago, but have had little time to devote to this task.
