Transcribe Bentham
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Transcribe Bentham is an award-winning participatory initiative which launched in 2010. Its aim is to engage the public in the online transcription of original and unstudied manuscripts written either by Jeremy Bentham himself or by his correspondents and amanuenses.
At the latest count, volunteers had transcribed more than 44,000 pages of Bentham's writings. These transcripts are made available in the UCL Library digital repository, making it easier for anyone in the world to access and read Bentham's papers. They are also used by scholars at the Bentham Project in the production of the edition of The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham.
- Find out more about Transcribe Bentham.
- Visit the Transcription Desk to start transcribing.
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- Read the Transcribe Bentham blog.
Transcribe Bentham is hosted by the Bentham Project at the Faculty of Laws, University College London, in collaboration with UCL Research IT Services, UCL's Centre for Digital Humanities, UCL Library Services, and UCL Digital Media Services.
Transcribe Bentham was established with funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council and subsequently received funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the READ project. READ was funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement no. 674943).
Thanks to a collaboration with the PRHLT research centre at the Universitat Politècnica de València as part of the READ project, it is now possible to search Bentham's manuscripts for key words and phrases—even pages not yet transcribed. Try it out for yourself.
