[Celebrating Birkbecks research] Dr. Livingstones lost 1871 massacre diary recovered - ow.ly/F8s4w In 2011, Birkbeck academics published Dr Livingstones diary account relating to the East African slave massacre, an event that would prompt the British government to close the East African slave trade. An international team of scholars and scientists, led by Dr Adrian Wisnicki, published the results of an eighteen-month project to recover Livingstone’s original account of the massacre. The story, found in a diary that was illegible until restored with advanced digital imaging, offers a unique insight into Livingstone’s mind during the greatest crisis of his last expedition, on which he would die. Spectral imaging, the process used to recover Livingstone’s original text, involves illuminating the manuscript with successive wavelengths of light – starting with ultraviolet, working through the visible spectrum, and ending with infrared. Processed digital images enhanced the selected text. Celebrating Birkbecks research: from 1-18 December 2014, in the lead-up to the publication of the Research Excellence Framework (REF) results, we will be celebrating Birkbecks research by highlighting one selected story per day - ow.ly/F9cUd
Posted on: Mon, 01 Dec 2014 14:38:22 +0000
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