Dr. Bob Nicholson is a cultural historian of 19th-century Britain and America at Edge Hill University and 2014 winner of the British Library Labs Competition.
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I wanted to find Victorian jokes and bring them back to life
Victorian Meme Machine
Key points
- Bob researches the history of Victorian popular culture and was interested in finding and reviving Victorian era jokes
- He worked with British Library Labs on a project called 'The Victorian Meme Machine' to create a database of Victorian jokes from the Library's digital collection of 19th Century books and newspapers.
- The Mechanical Comedian tool mashes Victorian images with jokes and releases them online via Twitter as modern memes.
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Digital Scholarship
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