The Davy Notebooks Project is glad to announce that we have fully transcribed all 120 of Humphry Davy’s notebooks and sets of lecture notes, the vast majority of which are held at the Royal Institution in London, the rest in Kresen Kernow in Redruth. In total, including our pilot project that took place in 2019, our volunteers transcribed 13,121 pages. We are so very grateful for the 3,841 volunteers who have us in this work and who have also, helped us to write notes on the people, places, chemical elements and compounds and many other interesting things. You can now see the results of this work on Lancaster Digital Collections at https://digitalcollections.lancaster.ac.uk/. 

The notebooks can be explored and searched, but we encourage you to let us know if you find anything amiss (e.g. a transcription or annotation error) and let us know using the feedback back form, which looks like two speech bubbles at the top right-hand side of the page. 

We’d also like to invite you to the official launch of the Davy Notebooks Project, which will take place in-person and simultaneously online at Lancaster LitFest on Saturday 19th October, 6-7pm BST. Tickets (for both in-person and online) cost £5 and can be bought here. At this event, Prof Sharon Ruston will discuss some of the highlights of the project’s findings and it will be an opportunity for her to thank everyone who has been involved in the project since it began in 2019. Thank you to all who have been involved in this project since 2019!

 The Davy Notebooks Project Team, September 2024