{"id":1179,"date":"2019-01-21T13:38:09","date_gmt":"2019-01-21T13:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/statutes.org.uk\/site\/?p=1179"},"modified":"2019-01-21T13:38:09","modified_gmt":"2019-01-21T13:38:09","slug":"updates-october-to-december-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/statutes.org.uk\/site\/updates-october-to-december-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Updates, October to December 2018."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Work on the Statutes project for the last three months of 2018:<\/p>\n<p>The big news is that I now have <a href=\"http:\/\/statutes.org.uk\/site\/digitization-of-the-missing-late-c19th-volumes\/\">a complete set of volumes of statutes for the nineteenth century<\/a>, courtesy of the Institute of Historical Research allowing me to photograph their copies. The OCR&#8217;d text, messy but undergoing correction, can be found on <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/Anterotesis\/statutes\/tree\/master\/IHR%20PGA\">Github<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There is also now a complete set of <a href=\"http:\/\/statutes.org.uk\/site\/tables-of-statutes-of-the-united-kingdom-1801-1921\/\">tables of public acts for the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland<\/a>, 1801 to 1921. Again, find them on <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/Anterotesis\/statutes\/tree\/master\/Tables%20of%20Public%20Statutes\">Github<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Laws added: the utterances of an oaf required the addition of\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/statutes.org.uk\/site\/the-statutes\/fourteenth-century\/1392-16-richard-c-5-statute-of-praemunire\/\">Statute of Praemunire;<\/a> Hallowe&#8217;en led me to add some witchcraft acts from <a href=\"http:\/\/statutes.org.uk\/site\/the-statutes\/sixteenth-century\/1541-33-henry-8-c8-witchcraft\/\">1541<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/statutes.org.uk\/site\/the-statutes\/sixteenth-century\/1563-5-elizabeth-1-c-16-an-act-against-conjurations-inchantments-and-witchcraft\/\">1563<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/statutes.org.uk\/site\/the-statutes\/seventeenth-century\/1604-1-james-1-c-12-an-act-against-witchcraft\/\">1604<\/a>, and Bonfire night was marked with James I&#8217;s dictat for the <a href=\"http:\/\/statutes.org.uk\/site\/the-statutes\/seventeenth-century\/1605-3-james-1-c-1-observance-of-the-fifth-of-november-a\/\">Observance of November the 5th<\/a>. Topical stuff, eh?<\/p>\n<p>Also added: <a href=\"http:\/\/statutes.org.uk\/site\/the-statutes\/eighteenth-century\/1739-12-george-2-c-29-setting-county-rates\/\">1739 County Rates Act<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/statutes.org.uk\/site\/the-statutes\/nineteenth-century\/1838-1-2-victoria-c-94-public-records-act\/\">1838 Public Records Act<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A new section has been created for private, local and personal acts; the first text in it is the <a href=\"http:\/\/statutes.org.uk\/site\/the-statutes\/private-local-personal-acts\/1798-38-george-3-local-act-c-lviii-lancashire-sessions-act\/\">Lancashire Sessions Act of 1798<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And the usual round of automated OCR corrections.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Work on the Statutes project for the last three months of 2018: The big news is that I now have a complete set of volumes of statutes for the nineteenth century, courtesy of the Institute of Historical Research allowing me to photograph their copies. The OCR&#8217;d text, messy but undergoing correction, can be found on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-project-updates"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/statutes.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/statutes.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/statutes.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/statutes.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/statutes.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/statutes.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/statutes.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/statutes.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/statutes.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}