[HISTORY] The Story of Coventry, by Mary Dormer Harris - availle

[paullawleyjones]

The Story of Coventry, by Mary Dormer Harris (1867 - 1936)

A look at the major figures, institutions and figures in the history and development of the city of Coventry. (Summary by Paul Lawley-Jones)

Source text (please read only from this text!): https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/58996

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Genres for the project: *Non-fiction/History/Middle Ages/Middle History; *Non-fiction/History/Early Modern
Keywords that describe the book: history, middle ages, england, medieval, city, coventry
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"Chapter # (part #) of The Story of Coventry . This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit librivox.org." [Optional: "Read by your name."] "The Story of Coventry , by Mary Dormer Harris. Section Title as per MW."

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[paullawleyjones]

There is no Wikipedia link for the author, so here is a link to a page about her on the Leamington website: https://leamingtonhistory.co.uk/mary-dormer-harris-1867-1936/

[paullawleyjones]

NOTE FOR DPL

I have moved some footnotes into the body of the text where I think they are both necessary for clarification and to preserve the flow of the text where a footnote would be unduly cumbersome. To that end, here is a link to my edited text.

[Availle]

Since England has just finished (will catalog in the weekend), I'm ready to take this one up as well.

Let me have a look before I greenlight your text changes just to make sure you're following our text policy.

Will set this up tomorrow; my cat insists it's time for bed...

[paullawleyjones]

Let me have a look before I greenlight your text changes just to make sure you're following our text policy.

Could you link that text policy?

[paullawleyjones]

Let me have a look before I greenlight your text changes just to make sure you're following our text policy.

Here are some examples. The bold text were footnotes:

Section 5

Certain documents called indentures (so called because the parchment on which the two deeds were written was so cut (indented) that they would exactly fit or dovetail into one another when put together at any future time) would then be drawn up in duplicate by the clerk, the names of the chief of the folk present appearing therein as witnesses to the deed.

The system of presenting criminals by means of a jury (the direct ancestor of our modern Grand Jury) obtained here as in the town court, but in doubtful or serious cases the accused would be condemned or acquitted not in accordance with evidence, but through an appeal to the interposition of Providence by means of trial by ordeal or battle.

Section 11

The mayor and bailiffs sent a present to Richard Wood's house, namely "ccc (300) paynemaynes (i.e. Fine white bread; _panis dominicus_, or lord's bread,) a pipe of rede wyne, a dosyn capons of haut grece (i.e. fat,) a dosyn of grete fat pykes, a grete panyer full of pescodes and another panyer of pipyns and orynges, & ii [2] cofyns of counfetys, & a pot of grene gynger."

Section 14

And that day, the petition goes on yet more bitterly, "these men were in the tavern setting, avauntyng and reresyng of their gret riotes, saying that if your seid besecher (_i.e._ petitioner) sueyd any persone ... for that cause by the course of your laweys, that they wold slee (_i.e._ slay) hym."

[Availle]

Okay, I've set this up for you. I hope there will be a more interesting summary once you've read the book.

A few things:
- our text policy is here: https://wiki.librivox.org/index.php?title=Recording_%26_Text_Policies
I'm fine with your including the footnotes as you do; for the shorter i.e. ones you can just change your voice a little. However, the long ones I would still use the "footnote/end footnote" everywhere to indicate that this is not the main text. Makes things less confusing. you can also move the footnote to the end of the sentence if that is less disruptive, but I can see that this is not always possible.

- I see you're doing something weird with different intros/outros for sections and chapters.
I assume that there are chapters that you want to break up into sections?

We use the "section #" at the very beginning and end to make sure people who can't look at their audio device or are visually impaired can quickly find out where they are in the recording. In order to not be confusing, you'll have to be consistent. So, I suggest you use "section #" in all the intros/outros at the very beginning/end; you can announce the beginning of a chapter after our LV disclaimer.

Let me know if you have further questions about this.

[paullawleyjones]

I hope there will be a more interesting summary once you've read the book.

Longer? Yes. More interesting? ...

However, the long ones I would still use the "footnote/end footnote" everywhere to indicate that this is not the main text.

That's what I normally do, and there are plenty of those, too.

I see you're doing something weird with different intros/outros for sections and chapters. I assume that there are chapters that you want to break up into sections?

Um, no. My intros are all the same, except for the shortened copyright statement on all sections after the first. The endings are different depending on whether it's just the end of a section, or the end of a chapter. If you listen to The Story of London intros/outros, you'll see I've been consistent throughout.

So, I suggest you use "section #" in all the intros/outros at the very beginning/end; you can announce the beginning of a chapter after our LV disclaimer.

This is exactly what I do. For multi-section chapters, I say "Section # of [book name.] [Copyright blurb.] [Book name] by [author name,] [Chapter # part #.]"

The 'section #' is the file sequence number, and the 'chapter # etc.' is the 'Section Title' at the end of the intro.

[paullawleyjones]

https://librivox.org/uploads/availle/storyofcoventry_01_harris_128kb.mp3 - 17:20

[paullawleyjones]

https://librivox.org/uploads/availle/storyofcoventry_02_harris_128kb.mp3 - 16:04

[JorWat]

If you're looking for a DPL, I'm up for the job.

[paullawleyjones]

If you're looking for a DPL, I'm up for the job.

That would be great, thank you. Please use my edited text linked in "Note For DPL" in the first post.

[paullawleyjones]

https://librivox.org/uploads/availle/storyofcoventry_03_harris_128kb.mp3 - 22:11

[Availle]

Sorry for the late response.

JorWat added into the DPL slot; moving to "Going Solo".

As for this one:

The endings are different depending on whether it's just the end of a section, or the end of a chapter. If you listen to The Story of London intros/outros, you'll see I've been consistent throughout.

So, I suggest you use "section #" in all the intros/outros at the very beginning/end; you can announce the beginning of a chapter after our LV disclaimer.

This is exactly what I do. For multi-section chapters, I say "Section # of [book name.] [Copyright blurb.] [Book name] by [author name,] [Chapter # part #.]"
The 'section #' is the file sequence number, and the 'chapter # etc.' is the 'Section Title' at the end of the intro.

I think I get what you're trying to do, however please change the outros: to "end of chapter x - end of section y" to conform with our standard.
This is to avoid confusion for listeners; for example "end of chapter 5" and then starting with "section 15" in two consecutive sections is utterly confusing.

If you have done this in the "London" project as well, please do change the outros for the respective sections as well - a simple copy/paste will do. Mark these section as "Ready for PL" in the MW and I'll check them before cataloging.

Thank you.

[JorWat]

https://librivox.org/uploads/availle/storyofcoventry_01_harris_128kb.mp3 - 17:20

https://librivox.org/uploads/availle/storyofcoventry_02_harris_128kb.mp3 - 16:04

Both PL OK. Will get back to you on Section 3 tomorrow, hopefully.