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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.

Saturday, 22 November 2014, 10:00 AM - 16:30 PM

Owen 744, City Campus, Sheffield Hallam University. See the Google map for the location.

For people unable to attend in person a live stream of the speakers and a chat room will be available through a YouTube live stream.

This event is organised by Dr M. H. Beals, Senior Lecturer in History at Sheffield Hallam University, who may be contacted with any queries.

• 10:00, Arrival, coffee and username creation
• 10:45, Welcome
• 11:00, Introduction to editing Wikipedia
• 11:30, Guided editing exercises
• 12:00, Why Are Some Authors forgotten? Remembering Yorkshire Writers Phyllis Bentley, Thomas Armstrong and Lettice Cooper
• 12:30, Who Are the Men Behind the Headlines? Remembering Yorkshire Newspaper Editors
• 13:00, Lunch
• 14:00, Editing time
• 16:30, Wrap-up and Survey

The edit-a-thon will offer a selection of prepared projects for attendees to work on:

1. Create and/or expand articles pertaining to books and authors in the Readerships and Literary Cultures 1900-1950 collection
2. Create and/or expand articles pertaining to newspapers and editors in the wider Yorkshire region

Please place a Y next an article to indicate that edits were made; the mark does not mean that all the suggested work for that article was completed.

Articles to create

Books

Inheritance by Phyllis Bentley

The Crowthers of Bankdam (book) by Thomas Armstrong

Authors

• Thomas Armstrong, author of The Crowthers of Bankdam (book) Y

Newspapers

• Original Illuminated Clock Almanack

Newspaper editors

• William Hill, Founding editor of the Northern Star

Articles to expand

Authors

• Lettice CooperY
• Phyllis BentleyY
• John Hartley (poet)

Newspapers

• Northern StarY
• Sheffield Telegraph
• Sheffield Iris

Newspaper Editors

• Joseph Burgess
• Joseph Barker

Web access

Wifi access will be provided to participants who bring their own laptops to the event (recommended). Internet access will also be provided via university PCs at the event.

Free databases

• Archive.org

Paid databases

The following Sheffield Hallam University subscription databases will be available to those onsite:

• JSTOR
• 19th Century British Library Newspaper Database
• Dawsonera Ebook Collection

Online Books and Articles

• Daly, Michael From Sheffield to Raleigh: A Radical Publishing Network in the Age of Revolution (2011, PhD Thesis)
• Dave, Russell. 'Province, Metropolis, and the Literary Carerr of Phyllis Bently in the 1930' The Historical Journal 51:3 (2008) (SHU Log-in Required)
• Grant, James The newspaper press: its origin, progress and present position (1871)
• Hobbs, Andrew. 'When the Provincial Press was the National Press (c.1836-c1900)' Journal of Regional and Local Studies 5:1 (2009)
• Roberts, Matthew. 'Constructing a Tory world‐view: popular politics and the Conservative press in late‐Victorian Leeds' Historical Research 79:203 (2006)
• Roberts, Matthew. 'Election cartoons and political communication in Victorian England' Cultural and Social History 10:3 (2013) (SHU Log-in Required)

Archival and manuscript collections

Readerships and Literary Cultures 1900-1950 Special Collection

Basics on editing Wikipedia

• Help:Cheatsheet - quick guide to Wiki markup
• Editing - The Basics has .pdf handouts and videos
• Wikipedia Training, Includes a one-hour training for newcomers, and more extensive pages for teachers and Waikipedia Ambassadors
• Wikipedia Tutorial is a hands-on approach that walks you through various aspects of Wikipedia editing

Please register for the event at Eventbrite

Will (did) Attend

• Mhbeals (talk) 12:55, 19 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• theclajw (talk) 09:15, 06 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
• Drericabrown (talk) 10:53, 7 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Waterloovillez23 (talk) 10:54, 7 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• PatHadley (talk) 14:01, 7 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Shiningroad (talk) 14:02, 17 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Willieriley (talk)
• Jmckenna25 (talk)
• Elizabeh h (talk)
• Jbosh1940 (talk)
• GeorgeSimmers (talk)
• Sue Welsh (talk)

May be Attending

• Peace1967 (talk) 10:55, 7 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Regrets

• Andrew Hobbs (talk) 11:35, 12 November 2014‎
• Limbsaw ^~talk~ 23:48, 12 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Sam Walton (talk) 14:18, 21 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Shreyakalra (talk) 09:19, 6 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Will Attend Remotely

Users who are unable to attend in person can view our morning speakers and chat with us and each other using the YouTube stream created for the event.

Coach

Coaches stop at Sheffield Interchange, next to our City Campus. Visit the National Express website to see timetables and book tickets.

National Rail

Sheffield train station is opposite our main City Campus. Visit National Rail Enquiries for times and fares, or call 08457 48 49 50.

Driving

If you're using satnav, our campus address and postcode is 'City Campus – Howard Street, Sheffield, S1 1WB'

Visit the AA website for the latest travel information and to plan your journey.

Parking

There is limited on-street pay and display parking on Arundel Street. We have discounted parking rates with the NCP car park on Arundel Gate and the ACPOA car park on Eyre Street. Find out more about parking.

At the end of the edit-a-thon, participants will be asked to complete a brief, anonymous survey about the event (link forthcoming). The results of the survey will be summarized here as a part of the post-edit-a-thon report to assist future edit-a-thon planners.