Professor Andrew Prescott

Honorary Senior Research Fellow (School of Critical Studies)

email: Andrew.Prescott@glasgow.ac.uk

Department of English Language, 13 University Gardens, Glasgow G12 8QQ

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https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6474-1068

Publications

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Number of items: 49.

2023

Prescott, A. and Wiggins, A. (Eds.) (2023) Archives: Power, Truth, and Fiction. Series: Oxford twenty-first century approaches to literature. Oxford University Press: Oxford. ISBN 9780198829324

Wiggins, A. and Prescott, A. (2023) Introduction. In: Prescott, Andrew and Wiggins, Alison (eds.) Archives: Power, Truth, and Fiction. Series: Oxford twenty-first century approaches to literature. Oxford University Press: Oxford. ISBN 9780198829324

2022

Hughes, L. , Bartliff, Z. and Prescott, A. (2022) IIIF Survey Results. IIIF4Research Network Workshop 4, Online and University of Durham, 09 May 2022.

2020

Prescott, A. , Bell, A. R., Curry, A. and Lacey, H. (2020) How Medieval Revolts Help Us to Understand Mass Protest. [Research Reports or Papers]

Echard, S. and Prescott, A. (2020) Charming the snake: accessing and disciplining the Medieval manuscript. In: Da Rold, Orietta and Treharne, Elaine (eds.) The Cambridge Companion to Medieval British Manuscripts. Series: Cambridge companions to literature. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, pp. 237-266. ISBN 9781107500143 (doi: 10.1017/9781316182659.012)

Prescott, A. (2020) British Freemasonry, 1717‐1813. General editor Róbert Péter. London and New York: Routledge. 2016. 5 vols. 2,396 p. £515 (hb). ISBN 978‐1‐31563‐990‐1. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 43(4), pp. 533-536. (doi: 10.1111/1754-0208.12703)[Book Review]

Prescott, A. (2020) Pursuing digital transformations through fluorescent green bunnies: The poetics of technology. In: Golding, Johnny, Reinhart, Martin and Paganelli, Mattia (eds.) Data Loam: Sometimes Hard, Usually Soft. The Future of Knowledge Systems. Series: Edition angewandte. De Gruyter, pp. 80-106. ISBN 9783110697841 (doi: 10.1515/9783110697841-005)

Bell, A., Lacey, H. and Prescott, A. (2020) What can the Black Death tell us about the global economic consequences of a pandemic? In: Billio, Monica and Varotto, Simone (eds.) A New World Post COVID-19: Lessons for Business, the Finance Industry and Policy Makers. Edizioni Ca’ Foscari: Venezia, pp. 35-42. ISBN 9788869694424 (doi: 10.30687/978-88-6969-442-4/002)

Prescott, A. (2020) Ways of seeing manuscripts: exploring Parker 2.0. In: Albritton, Benjamin, Henley, Georgia and Treharne, Elaine (eds.) Medieval Manuscripts in the Digital Age. Series: Digital research in the arts and humanities. Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY, pp. 37-54. ISBN 9780367426613 (doi: 10.4324/9781003003441-5)

Forsdick, C., French, H., Prescott, A. and Smith, B. (2020) Working at the Intersections: the Arts and Humanities Research Council Strategic Themes 2010-2019. [Research Reports or Papers]

Popple, S., Prescott, A. and Mutibwa, D. H. (Eds.) (2020) Communities, Archives and New Collaborative Practices. Series: Connected communities. Policy Press: Bristol, UK ; Chicago, IL. ISBN 9781447341895

Popple, S., Mutibwa, D. H. and Prescott, A. (2020) Community archives and the creation of living knowledge. In: Popple, Simon, Prescott, Andrew and Mutibwa, Daniel H. (eds.) Communities, Archives and New Collaborative Practices. Series: Connected communities. Policy Press: Bristol, UK ; Chicago, IL, pp. 1-18. ISBN 9781447341895 (doi: 10.1332/policypress/9781447341895.003.0001)

Prescott, A. (2020) Community archives and the health of the internet. In: Popple, Simon, Prescott, Andrew and Mutibwa, Daniel (eds.) Communities, Archives and New Collaborative Practices. Series: Connected communities. Policy Press: Bristol, UK ; Chicago, IL, pp. 251-268. ISBN 9781447341895 (doi: 10.2307/j.ctvx1hvvd.24)

2019

Prescott, A. (2019) Tall tales from the archive. In: Jahner, Jennifer, Steiner, Emily and Tyler, Elizabeth M. (eds.) Medieval Historical Writing: Britain and Ireland, 500-1500. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, pp. 356-369. ISBN 9781107163362 (doi: 10.1017/9781316681299.021)

Prescott, A. and Sommers, S. M. (2019) The origins of freemasonry and the invention of tradition. Harashim, 85, pp. 6-24.

Prescott, A. , Scott, D. , Ali, S. and Guariento, L. (2019) A Digital Blast. University of Glasgow: Glasgow. ISBN 9781527247857

Prescott, A. (2019) Slow digitisation and the battle of the books. In: Karkov, Catherine E. (ed.) Slow Scholarship: Medieval Research and the Neoliberal University. Series: Essays and studies. D.S. Brewer: Woodbridge, Suffolk, pp. 143-162. ISBN 9781843845386 (doi: 10.2307/j.ctvktrxwz.13)

Winters, J. and Prescott, A. (2019) Negotiating the born-digital: A problem of search. Archives and Manuscripts, 47(32-33), pp. 391-403. (doi: 10.1080/01576895.2019.1640753)

2018

Prescott, A. and Hughes, L. M. (2018) Why do we digitize? The case for slow digitization. Archive Journal,

Prescott, A. (2018) Searching for Dr Johnson: the digitisation of the Burney Newspaper Collection. In: Brandtzæg, Siv Gøril, Goring, Paul and Watson, Christine (eds.) Travelling Chronicles: News and Newspapers from the Early Modern Period to the Eighteenth Century. Series: Library of the written word - the handpress world. Brill: Leiden, pp. 49-71. ISBN 9789004340404 (doi: 10.1163/9789004362871_004)

Prescott, A. (2018) English Chronicle Narratives of the Rising of 1381. In: Connolly, Margaret and Radulescu, Raluca (eds.) Editing and Interpretation of Middle English Texts: Essays in Honour of William Marx. Series: Texts and transitions (12). Brepols: Turnhout, pp. 133-154. ISBN 9782503568478 (doi: 10.1484/M.TT-EB.5.114037)

2017

Papadimitriou, I., Prescott, A. and Rogers, J. (Eds.) (2017) Bridging Open Borders. Uniform Communications: London. ISBN 9780957686885

Prescott, A. (2017) Peasants' Revolt. In: Echard, S. and Rouse, R. (eds.) The Encyclopaedia of Medieval Literature in Britain. Wiley Blackwell. ISBN 9781118396988 (doi: 10.1002/9781118396957.wbemlb547)

Prescott, A. and Sommers, S. M. (2017) Searching for the apple tree: revisiting the earliest years of organised English freemasonry. In: Wade, John (ed.) Reflections on Three Hundred Years of Freemasonry: Papers from the QC Tercentenary Conference. Lewis Masonic.

Sommers, S. M. and Prescott, A. (2017) New light on the life of James Anderson. In: Wade, John (ed.) Reflections on Three Hundred Years of Freemasonry: Papers from the QC Tercentenary Conference. Lewis Masonic.

2016

Prescott, A. (2016) 'Great and horrible rumour': shaping the English revolt of 1381. In: Firnhaber-Baker, Justine and Schoenaers, Dirk (eds.) The Routledge History Handbook of Medieval Revolt. Series: Routledge history handbooks. Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon, pp. 76-103. ISBN 9781138952225

Papadimitriou, I., Prescott, A. and Rogers, J. (Eds.) (2016) Engineering the future: Digital Design Weekend 2016. Uniform Communications Ltd.. ISBN 9780957686878

Prescott, A. (2016) Introduction: the pursuit of metaphors. In: Anderson, Wendy, Hough, Carole and Bramwell, Ellen (eds.) Mapping English Metaphor Through Time. Series: Oxford linguistics. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 1-12. ISBN 9780198744573 (doi: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198744573.001.0001)

Blanke, T. and Prescott, A. (2016) Dealing with big data. In: Griffin, Gabrielle and Hayler, Matt (eds.) Research Methods for Reading Digital Data in the Digital Humanities. Series: Research methods for the arts and humanities. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, pp. 184-205. ISBN 9781474409605

2015

Prescott, A. (2015) Beyond the digital humanities centre: the administrative landscapes of the digital humanities. In: Schreibman, Susan, Siemens, Ray and Unsworth, John (eds.) A New Companion to Digital Humanities. Series: Blackwell companions to literature and culture (93). Wiley-Blackwell: Oxford, pp. 461-475. ISBN 9781118680599 (doi: 10.1002/9781118680605.ch32)

Prescott, A. (Ed.) (2015) Big Data in the Arts and Humanities: Some Arts and Humanities Research Council Projects. University of Glasgow: Glasgow. ISBN 9780852619438

Papadimitriou, I., Prescott, A. and Rogers, J. (Eds.) (2015) Crafting our Digital Futures. Uniform Communications Ltd: Great Britain. ISBN 9780957686847

Prescott, A. (2015) Being local and connected. In: Papadimitriou, Irini, Prescott, Andrew and Rogers, Jon (eds.) Crafting our Digital Futures. Uniform Communications Ltd: Great Britain. ISBN 9780957686847

2014

Prescott, A. (2014) Digitising the Historical Record. Genres of Scholarly Knowledge Production, Umeå, Sweden, 10-12 Dec 2014.

Prescott, A. (2014) Made in Sheffield: industrial perspectives on the digital humanities. In: Pidd, Michael, Ward, Esther and Mills, Clare (eds.) Proceedings of the Digital Humanities Congress 2012. Series: Studies in the digital humanities (1). The University of Sheffield.

Rogers, J., Papadimitriou, I. and Prescott, A. (Eds.) (2014) Open Collaborative Making. Uniform Communications Ltd: Liverpool. ISBN 9780957686816

Prescott, A. (2014) I'd rather be a Librarian. Cultural and Social History, 11(3), pp. 335-341. (doi: 10.2752/147800414X13983595303192)

Prescott, A. (2014) The old charges. In: Bogdan, Henrik and Snoek, J.A.M. (eds.) Handbook of Freemasonry. Series: Brill handbooks on contemporary religion (8). Brill: Leiden, pp. 33-49. ISBN 9789004218338 (doi: 10.1163/9789004273122_004)

2013

Prescott, A. (2013) Bibliographic Records as Humanities Big Data. In: 2013 IEEE International Conference on Big Data, Santa Clara, CA, USA, 6-9 Oct 2013, pp. 55-58. ISBN 9781479912933 (doi: 10.1109/BigData.2013.6691670)

2010

Prescott, A. (2010) The Yorkshire Partisans and the literature of popular discontent. In: Treharne, E. and Walker, G. (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 321-352. ISBN 9780199229123

2009

Prescott, A. (2009) Inventing symbols and traditions : The case of the stonemasons. In: Cherry, John and Payne, Ann (eds.) Signs and Symbols: Proceedings of the 2006 Harlaxton Symposium. Series: Harlaxton Medieval Studies 18. Shaun Tyas: Donington, pp. 100-118. ISBN 9781900289986

2008

Prescott, A. (2008) The Imaging of Historical Documents. In: Greengrass, Mark and Hughes, Lorna (eds.) The Virtual Representation of the Past. Series: Digital research in the arts and humanities. Ashgate: Aldershot, pp. 7-22. ISBN 9780754672883

Prescott, A. (2008) The textuality of the archive. In: Craven, L. (ed.) What are Archives? Cultural and Theoretical Perspectives: a reader. Ashgate, pp. 31-52. ISBN 9780745673101

Davies, M. P. and Prescott, A. (Eds.) (2008) London and the kingdom : essays in honour of Caroline M. Barron. Series: Harlaxton Medieval Studies 16. Shaun Tyas: Donington. ISBN 9781900289917

Prescott, A. (2008) 'Builders of the Temple of the New Civilization': Annie Besant and Freemasonry. In: Heidle, A. and Snoek, J.A.M. (eds.) Women's Agency and Rituals in Mixed and Female Masonic Orders. Series: Aries book series (8). Brill: Leiden, The Netherlands, pp. 359-392. ISBN 9789004172395

2006

Hamill, J. and Prescott, A. (2006) 'The Masons' candidate': New Welcome Lodge No. 5139 and the Parliamentary Labour Party. Labour History Review, 71(1), pp. 9-41. (doi: 10.1179/174581806X103862)

Prescott, A. (Ed.) (2006) Marking well : Essays on the Occasion of the 150th Anniversary of the Grand Lodge of Mark Master Masons of England and Wales and its Districts and Lodges Overseas. Lewis Masonic: Hersham. ISBN 9780853182665

Halstead, J. and Prescott, A. (2006) Breaking the barriers: masonry, fraternity and labour. Labour History Review, 71(1), pp. 3-6. (doi: 10.1179/174581806X103899)

2002

Prescott, A. (2002) The Benedictional of St Æthelwold: A Masterpiece of Anglo-Saxon Art: A Facsimile. British Library: London, UK. ISBN 9780712347556

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