correspondence

Return to Sender, a project funded by Europeana and developed in collaboration with the University of Coventry and Solent University, aims to explore WW1 postcards in the Europeana 1914-1918 collection and the collections of contributing archives from across Europe.

An article by Emma Moreton and me, The Migrant Letter Digitised: Visualising Metadata, has just been published in the Journal of Cultural Analytics 

http://culturalanalytics.org/2017/03/the-migrant-letter-digitised-visual...

Among other things, it discusses the ups and downs of using letters to study 19th Century emigrants to the USA in a time before walls even became an issue.