Phil Gyford

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Phil Gyford has posted 773 annotations/comments since 27 December 2002.

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First Reading

About Guidelines for annotations

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As a starting point, the most obvious solution to me would seem to be an email list that is archived and readable on the web for those who don't want a lot of email. eg Yahoo! Groups or SmartGroups.

About Saturday 25 February 1659/60

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I've answered this point before Emilio, but I'm happy to do so again!

Yes, there are errors in the text. The problem for me is that while some may obviously be due to the digitisation process, others might be more ambiguous. I don't have the time or facilities to compare the digital text with the 1893 original and verify every word. And rather than create yet another version of the diaries I'm simply posting the Project Gutenberg version.

I have contacted David Widger, the guy who digitised the diary for PG, and if anyone *emails* me corrections to the entries I will be periodically forwarding them on to him.

About Friday 24 February 1659/60

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Sounds a good idea Mary, thanks.

For future reference though, please send such requests to me via email, as (a) I might miss it here and (b) it doesn't make for very interesting or relevant reading when someone looks at this page in a few days/months/years time.

Annotations should enrich the worth of the page they're posted to for future readers :)

About Friday 24 February 1659/60

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Gerry, if it's about a person or thing or place that might come up at other points in the diary then it's a good candidate for going in Background Info.

If there is already a Background Info page for that person or thing then it would almost certainly be useful there. There is a page for the position of Speaker.

About Wednesday 22 February 1659/60

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I may be flogging a dead horse here, and I agree that sometimes it's hard to tell, but the above annotation would probably be ideal for Montague's page. http://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclo…

Having added an annotation to a Background Info page you can then link to it here if the annotation is particularly relevant to today.

About Thursday 23 February 1659/60

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As you can see, the word "birthday" is a link to the Background Info page about how people celebrated birthdays in Pepys time. This will mean we don't have to have this conversation every year.

About The Bell (King St)

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The map location above is quite approximate. This was a tavern on King Street, Westminster.

About Leg (King St)

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This was a tavern on King Street, Westminster, between George Yard and Boar's Head Yard (from Latham's Companion to the diary).

About Apologies for the recent disruption

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As long as I've entered the entries in advance they appear on the site automatically, thanks to a script a friend wrote for me.

If other stuff needs to be done, or I decide to join the circus, I'm sure someone else (or more than one) would be able to take on the task.

About Values today

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A way to see what 17th century money would be worth today, posted by David Gurliacci on the 4 Jan 1660 entry:

http://eh.net/htmit/ppowerbp/

If you click on the "source note" in light blue lettering near the top of the page, it gives you some good caveats. Essentially, it says these calculations are very inexact because the relative values of many things can change quite a bit over time. But this may give a rough sense of the value of 1660 money.

About Wednesday 15 February 1659/60

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Hinchingbroke.

On the right are links to the Background Info pages. Click on 'Places' then click on 'Hinchingbroke' and you'll get to http://www.pepysdiary.com/encyclo…

Information about Hinchingbroke posted there is less likely to disappear to readers of the diary over the next nine years...!