Marc Alexander

@mga.is

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Professor of English Linguistics (University of Glasgow), Director of the Historical Thesaurus of English, made the Hansard Corpus 1803–, likes cake. He/him.

Christian Kay, the second director of the Historical Thesaurus, hands over a padded envelope to Tommy Cameron, University of Glasgow janitor, in the entranceway of 12 University Gardens, where we all worked

The Wellington Church at the University of Glasgow campus against a bright moon behind clouds

“Earl Stanhope, being teller of the latter, refused to return the Bishop of Lincoln, because he was not habited in his lawn sleeves [ceremonial robes made of lawn, a type of fine linen]. This drew on a warm altercation”

A photo of a recently-cut-open page in the Gentleman’s Magazine LXXI.1

Laptop sticker from the Digital Preservation Coalition saying “storage is not preservation”