The web resource is built on the native XML database eXist-db. The code is open-source and will be available soon on GitHub once the resource is in a finalised state. All the information is stored in XML files following the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) standard. We recommend using Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome to use this resource.
If you want to know more about the project or want to discuss the data or our approach to it, please e-mail us.
Will Bowers is a Senior Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Thought at Queen Mary University of London. His research focuses on literary cultural exchange in Britain, and between Britain and other European cultures. He has co-edited a book on coteries— Re-evaluating the Literary Coterie, 1580–1830 (2016) — and written a monograph on cultural relations in the Romantic period — The Italian Idea: Anglo-Italian Radical Literary Culture, 1815-1823 (2020). He founded Dined in 2018 and is the Principal Investigator on the project.
Luca Guariento was awarded a PhD at the University of Glasgow with a dissertation on the English polymath and physician Robert Fludd (1573/4-1637). Besides his research interests in Musicology, early-modern thought, and History of Ideas, he has a genuine passion for the digital humanities. He was project assistant of The Medical Consultation Letters of Dr William Cullen project, and developed the web resource of Historical Music of Scotland project, Curious Travellers Editions, and many others. He is research systems developer at the University of Glasgow and digital fellow of Cultures of Knowledge (University of Oxford).
Christopher Wright OBE is a former Head of Manuscripts at the British Library. He has written a number of articles about Regency culture, and is the author of the ODNB articles on Lord Holland and Lady Holland. In the 1970s and 1980s, Christopher made the first detailed survey of the Holland House Dinner Books and this work, along with his knowledge of the BL manuscripts, has been invaluable to Dined.