Stella Wisdom's slides for Culture Geek at Southbank Centre on 17/06/2015

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Off the Map videogame competition for 2013

Three sub themes:• Stonehenge, including a proposed plan to rebuild

Stonehenge• Pyramids at Giza• 17th Century London, including a survey map made

months after the Great Fire of 1666

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C.J. Visscher, London , 1616 (detail) Maps C.5.a.6

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John Leake, An exact surveigh of the streets lanes and churches contained within the ruines of the City of London, 1667. Maps Crace port 2.58

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2013 winning team: Pudding Lane Productions from De Montfort University, Leicester who created an interpretation of 17th Century Londonhttp://youtu.be/SPY-hr-8-M0 (Flythrough starts at 0:50)

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2013 winning team: Pudding Lane Productions from De Montfort University, Leicester who created an interpretation of 17th Century London

http://youtu.be/SPY-hr-8-M0 (Flythrough starts at 0:50)

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Gothic theme, tie-in with the Library's exhibitionTerror and Wonder: The Gothic Imagination 3 October 2014 - 20 January 2015

• Fonthill AbbeyHome of William Beckford, author of Vathek

• Edgar Allan Poe’s Masque of the Red Death

• Whitby and its association with Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula

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Image from Delineations of Fonthill and its Abbey, John Rutter, 1823

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Image from Delineations of Fonthill and its Abbey, John Rutter, 1823

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Model of Fonthill Abbey in the exhibition

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2014 winning team: Gothulus Rift, University of South WalesCreated a Fonthill Abbey inspired game called Nix using Oculus RiftBlog: http://nixgamedevblog.blogspot.co.uk YouTube flythrough: http://youtu.be/8ESieZO4VHw  

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2014 winning team: Gothulus Rift, University of South WalesCreated a Fonthill Abbey inspired game called Nix using Oculus RiftBlog: http://nixgamedevblog.blogspot.co.uk YouTube flythrough: http://youtu.be/8ESieZO4VHw  

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View of the coast by Whitby, Francis Jukes, 1804

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2014 second winning entry: Team Flying Buttress from De Montfort Universityhttps://youtu.be/P6DLOZA5AGw

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2014 second winning entry: Team Flying Buttress from De Montfort Universityhttps://youtu.be/P6DLOZA5AGw

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Harry Clarke illustration for Edgar Allan Poe’s short story, The Masque of the Red Death

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2014 third winning entry: Team Shady Agents from University of South Wales, with their game Beneath The Crimson Moon

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Alice’s Adventures Off the Map

Part of the British Library's celebrations

for the 150th anniversary of Alice in Wonderland

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Off the Map 2015

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Some work in progress: The Wondering Lands of Alice

Team Off our rockers:Amber Jamieson, Braden May, Dan Bullock, Denzil Forde, Freddy Canton & Luke Day https://youtu.be/uuG5sAtEZzs

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Stella Wisdom, Digital Curator @miss_wisdom Digital Scholarship Bloghttp://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digital-scholarship/