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  • 14:48, 3 July 2026 Eashcroft talk contribs created page Template:Featured article/4 (Created page with "<includeonly>'''Edmund Ashcroft''' serves as Senior Archivist of the Folklorica Institute and editorial director of ''Encyclopedia Folklorica''. (Full article...)</includeonly>")
  • 14:48, 3 July 2026 Eashcroft talk contribs created page Template:Featured article/3 (Created page with "<includeonly>'''Encyclopedia Folklorica''' began as an internal reference index restricted to members of the Folklorica Institute, before its public launch in 2026. (Full article...)</includeonly>")
  • 14:47, 3 July 2026 Eashcroft talk contribs created page Template:Featured article/2 (Created page with "<includeonly>The '''Folklorica Institute''' is an independent archival institution founded in the nineteenth century to document phenomena at the margins of ordinary attention. Its holdings form the basis of ''Encyclopedia Folklorica''. (Full article...)</includeonly>")
  • 14:47, 3 July 2026 Eashcroft talk contribs created page Template:Featured article/1 (Created page with "<includeonly>'''Thia Typo''' (1848–1917) was a Fleet Street typesetter blamed in her lifetime for an extraordinary run of printing errors — mistakes some historians now argue were among the earliest documented cases of ''Typographic Drift''. Her name endures in newsroom slang as shorthand for any inexplicable typo. (Full article...)</includeonly>")
  • 14:47, 3 July 2026 Eashcroft talk contribs created page Template:Featured article (Created page with "<includeonly>{{#switch: {{#expr: {{CURRENTDAYOFYEAR}} mod 4 }} | 0 = {{Featured article/1}} | 1 = {{Featured article/2}} | 2 = {{Featured article/3}} | #default = {{Featured article/4}} }}</includeonly><noinclude> Rotates daily among four candidates via day-of-year mod 4. Add a fifth candidate by changing the modulus to 5 and adding a case. </noinclude>")
  • 14:37, 3 July 2026 Eashcroft talk contribs created page Josiah Vane (Created page with "'''Josiah Vane''' (1831–1894) was a British naturalist and collector, and a founding-era member of the Folklorica Institute. His private notebooks of "uncatalogued observations," compiled during the 1850s, are frequently cited as the personal impulse behind the Institute's establishment in 1861.<ref>{{Cite book |author=Pemberton, Clara |title=The Folklorica Institute: A History, 1861–1990 |place=London |publisher=Institute Press |year=1991 |page=19 |url=...")
  • 14:27, 3 July 2026 Eashcroft talk contribs created page Institute Press (Created page with "{{Infobox institution |name=Institute Press |image=InstitutePress_seal.png |image_size=150px |caption=Seal of Institute Press, adopted following its establishment as the Folklorica Institute's publishing imprint in 1889. |type=Book-publishing imprint; institutional press |founded=1889 |founder=Josiah Vane |headquarters=Bloomsbury, London |leader_title=Senior Archivist (oversight) |leader_name=Edmund Ashcroft |parent_organization=[[Folklorica Institute]...")
  • 14:27, 3 July 2026 Eashcroft talk contribs created page File:InstitutePress seal.png
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  • 11:47, 3 July 2026 Eashcroft talk contribs created page Template:Infobox institution (Created page with "<includeonly><table class="infobox" style="width:22em; float:right; clear:right; margin:0 0 1em 1em; border:1px solid #a2a9b1; background:#f8f9fa; font-size:88%; line-height:1.4em;"> <tr><th style="background:#eaecf0; text-align:center; font-size:110%; padding:0.3em;">{{#if:{{{name|}}}|{{{name}}}|{{PAGENAME}}}}</th></tr> {{#if:{{{image|}}}|<tr><td style="text-align:center; padding:0.4em;">[[File:{{{image}}}|{{{image_size|150px}}}]]{{#if:{{{caption|}}}|<div style="font-si...")
  • 11:39, 3 July 2026 Eashcroft talk contribs created page File:FI seal.png
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  • 11:37, 3 July 2026 Eashcroft talk contribs created page File:FL seal.png
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  • 11:29, 3 July 2026 Eashcroft talk contribs created page File:FHP wordmark lockup.png
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  • 08:55, 3 July 2026 Eashcroft talk contribs created page Template:Trewin2003 (Created page with "<includeonly>{{Cite journal |author=Trewin, Barbara |title=Societies in Print: In-House Publishing among Victorian Learned Bodies |journal=Journal of Print Culture |volume=3 |issue=1 |pages=131–160 |year=2003 }}</includeonly> <noinclude> == Template:Trewin2003 == Shortcut for citing Barbara Trewin's "Societies in Print: In-House Publishing among Victorian Learned Bodies" (''Journal of Print Culture'', vol. 3, issue 1, 2003). Wraps {{Cite journal}} with every fix...")
  • 08:54, 3 July 2026 Eashcroft talk contribs created page Fenwick House Press (Created page with "Fenwick House Press is the publishing imprint of the Royal Society of Everyday Phenomena, established in 1874 and named in honour of the Society's founding President, Sir Reginald Fenwick. The Press publishes the Society's official histories, research reports, and occasional monographs arising from its research programmes, including the Society's centenary history of 1958. It is among the older surviving examples of a learned society operating its own dedicated publi...")
  • 02:36, 3 July 2026 Eashcroft talk contribs created page Template:Deakin2015 (Created page with "<includeonly>{{Cite journal |author=Deakin, Alistair |title=Reading Patterns into Noise: A Critique of Typographic Drift |journal=Journal of Print Culture |volume=15 |issue=2 |pages=88–104 |year=2015 }}</includeonly> <noinclude> == Template:Deakin2015 == Shortcut for citing Alistair Deakin's "Reading Patterns into Noise: A Critique of Typographic Drift" (''Journal of Print Culture'', vol. 15, issue 2, 2015). Fully fixed — takes no parameters, since every use s...")
  • 02:35, 3 July 2026 Eashcroft talk contribs created page Typographic Drift (Created page with "Typographic Drift is a term used within editorial folklore to describe a proposed recurring pattern in which printed text departs from its intended or approved form for reasons that cannot be attributed to conventional causes such as compositor error, mechanical fault, or transcription mistake. The term originates from a nineteenth-century investigation by the Royal Society of Everyday Phenomena into the Great Comma Incident, and has since been applied retrospect...")
  • 02:23, 3 July 2026 Eashcroft talk contribs created page Template:Whitmore1887 (Created page with "<includeonly>{{Cite news |author=Whitmore, Albert |title=Panic Follows Bank Notice Error |newspaper=The City Intelligencer |date=15 March 1887 }}</includeonly> <noinclude> == Template:Whitmore1887 == Contemporary report on the panic following the Ludgate Bank's 14 March 1887 notice, published the next day in a different Fleet Street paper from the one that printed the notice itself. == Usage == <pre> <ref>{{Whitmore1887}}</ref> </pre> Category:Source templates </...")
  • 02:22, 3 July 2026 Eashcroft talk contribs created page Template:Marsh2010 (Created page with "<includeonly>{{Cite journal |author=Marsh, Diana |title=Panic on Ludgate Hill: The Bank Notice Scandal of 1887 |journal=Journal of Financial History |volume=22 |issue=4 |pages=301–324 |year=2010 }}</includeonly> <noinclude> == Template:Marsh2010 == Shortcut for citing Diana Marsh's "Panic on Ludgate Hill: The Bank Notice Scandal of 1887" (''Journal of Financial History'', vol. 22, issue 4, 2010). Fully fixed — takes no parameters, since every use so far cites...")
  • 02:22, 3 July 2026 Eashcroft talk contribs created page Great Comma Incident (Created page with "The Great Comma Incident refers to a printing error of 14 March 1887, in which a single misplaced comma in a public notice from the Ludgate Bank, published in ''The London Sentinel'', rendered the notice's crucial final clause ambiguous at the height of unrelated rumours about the bank's financial position. The resulting confusion triggered a brief but severe run on the bank's deposits. The incident is closely associated with the compositor Thia Typo, who set the not...")
  • 02:06, 3 July 2026 Eashcroft talk contribs created page File:Folklorica Institute illustration.jpg
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  • 02:01, 3 July 2026 Eashcroft talk contribs created page Template:Coombe1958 (Created page with "<includeonly>{{Cite book |author=Coombe, Margaret |title=The Royal Society of Everyday Phenomena: A Centenary History, 1858–1958 |place=London |publisher=Fenwick House Press |year=1958 |page={{{page|}}} }}</includeonly> <noinclude> == Template:Coombe1958 == Shortcut for citing Margaret Coombe's ''The Royal Society of Everyday Phenomena: A Centenary History, 1858–1958'' (Fenwick House Press, 1958), the Society's official centenary history. Wraps {{Cite book}} wi...")
  • 02:00, 3 July 2026 Eashcroft talk contribs created page Royal Society of Everyday Phenomena (Created page with "The Royal Society of Everyday Phenomena is a London-based learned society founded in 1858 for the systematic investigation of recurring, unexplained irregularities in ordinary daily life. It received a royal charter in 1871. The Society is best known for its long-standing research programme into the concept of ''Typographic Drift'', which grew out of its investigation into the Great Comma Incident, and for the retrospective connections later scholars have drawn b...")
  • 01:30, 3 July 2026 Eashcroft talk contribs created page Template:Ferris2005 (Created page with "<includeonly>{{Cite journal |author=Ferris, Owen |title=Thia Typo and the Emergence of Typographic Drift |journal=Journal of British Folklore Studies |volume=41 |issue=1 |pages=3–22 |year=2005 }}</includeonly> <noinclude> == Template:Ferris2005 == Shortcut for citing Owen Ferris's "Thia Typo and the Emergence of Typographic Drift" (''Journal of British Folklore Studies'', vol. 41, issue 1, 2005). Fully fixed — takes no parameters, since every use so far cites...")
  • 01:29, 3 July 2026 Eashcroft talk contribs created page Template:Rowe1975 (Created page with "<includeonly>{{Cite book |author=Rowe, Constance |title=Thia Typo: The Compositor and the Myth |place=London |publisher=Fleet Street Press |year=1975 |page={{{page|}}} }}</includeonly> <noinclude> == Template:Rowe1975 == Shortcut for citing Constance Rowe's ''Thia Typo: The Compositor and the Myth'' (Fleet Street Press, 1975), the standard biography. Wraps {{Cite book}} with every fixed field pre-filled; only the page number varies per citation. == Usage == <pre> <...")
  • 00:56, 3 July 2026 Eashcroft talk contribs created page Template:Bianchi2016 (Created page with "<includeonly>{{Cite news |author=Bianchi, Tom |title=Folklorica Institute Names New Senior Archivist |newspaper=The Bloomsbury Gazette |date=3 February 2016 }}</includeonly> <noinclude> == Template:Bianchi2016 == Shortcut for citing Tom Bianchi's "Folklorica Institute Names New Senior Archivist" (''The Bloomsbury Gazette'', 3 February 2016). Fully fixed — takes no parameters. == Usage == <pre> <ref>{{Bianchi2016}}</ref> </pre> Category:Source templates </noincl...")
  • 00:55, 3 July 2026 Eashcroft talk contribs created page Template:Holloway2026 (Created page with "<includeonly>{{Cite news |author=Holloway, Priya |title=Bloomsbury Archive Launches Digital Encyclopedia |newspaper=The Holborn Post |date=1 July 2026 }}</includeonly> <noinclude> == Template:Holloway2026 == Shortcut for citing Priya Holloway's "Bloomsbury Archive Launches Digital Encyclopedia" (''The Holborn Post'', 1 July 2026). Fully fixed — takes no parameters. == Usage == <pre> <ref>{{Holloway2026}}</ref> </pre> Category:Source templates </noinclude>")
  • 00:55, 3 July 2026 Eashcroft talk contribs created page Template:Whitfield1998 (Created page with "<includeonly>{{Cite journal |author=Whitfield, Rosalind |title=Archival Practices of the Folklorica Institute, 1861–1901 |journal=Journal of British Folklore Studies |volume=34 |issue=2 |pages=112–130 |year=1998 }}</includeonly> <noinclude> == Template:Whitfield1998 == Shortcut for citing Rosalind Whitfield's "Archival Practices of the Folklorica Institute, 1861–1901" (''Journal of British Folklore Studies'', vol. 34, issue 2, 1998). Fully fixed — takes no...")
  • 00:54, 3 July 2026 Eashcroft talk contribs created page Template:Pemberton1991 (Created page with "<includeonly>{{Cite book |author=Pemberton, Clara |title=The Folklorica Institute: A History, 1861–1990 |place=London |publisher=Institute Press |year=1991 |page={{{page|}}} }}</includeonly> <noinclude> == Template:Pemberton1991 == Shortcut for citing Clara Pemberton's ''The Folklorica Institute: A History, 1861–1990'' (Institute Press, 1991). Wraps {{Cite book}} with every fixed field pre-filled; only the page number varies per citation. == Usage == <pre> <ref...")
  • 17:19, 2 July 2026 Eashcroft talk contribs created page Edmund Ashcroft (Created page with "Edmund Ashcroft (born 12 March 1974) is a British archivist and the Senior Archivist of the Folklorica Institute, a position he has held since 2016. Ashcroft directed the Institute's 2026 relaunch of its internal reference index as the publicly accessible ''Encyclopedia Folklorica'', of which he serves as editorial director within the Institute's Department of Public Engagement. == History == Ashcroft studied History at Durham University before joining the Folk...")
  • 17:11, 2 July 2026 Eashcroft talk contribs created page Encyclopedia Folklorica (Created page with "''Encyclopedia Folklorica'' is the principal ongoing publication of the Folklorica Institute, a continuously updated reference work documenting the people, institutions, historical events, places, creatures, objects, and concepts the Institute holds to lie at the margins of everyday attention. The encyclopedia developed out of a private reference index maintained by the Institute since the early twentieth century and was made freely accessible to the public in digita...")
  • 17:04, 2 July 2026 Eashcroft talk contribs created page Folklorica Institute (Created page with "The Folklorica Institute is a London-based learned society and independent archival institution founded in 1861 for the systematic study and documentation of ordinary, overlooked, and anomalous aspects of everyday life. Headquartered in Bloomsbury, the Institute maintains one of the largest privately held archives of oral testimony, disputed manuscripts, and folkloric ephemera in the United Kingdom. Since 2026, its holdings have been made publicly accessible through ''...")
  • 13:57, 2 July 2026 Eashcroft talk contribs created page Template:Cite encyclopedia (Created page with "<includeonly>{{{author|}}}. "{{{title|}}}." ''{{{encyclopedia|}}}''{{{edition|}}}. {{{publisher|}}}, {{{year|}}}.{{{volume|}}}{{{pages|}}}{{{url|}}}{{{access-date|}}}</includeonly><noinclude> = Template:Cite encyclopedia = Formats a citation for an encyclopedia article. == Usage == <pre> <ref>{{Cite encyclopedia |author= |title= |encyclopedia= |edition= |publisher= |year= |volume= |pages= |url= |access-date= }}</ref> </pre> == Parameters == {| class="wiki...")
  • 13:56, 2 July 2026 Eashcroft talk contribs created page Template:Cite news (Created page with "<includeonly>{{{author|}}}. "{{{title|}}}." ''{{{newspaper|}}}''{{{date|}}}.{{{page|}}}{{{url|}}}{{{access-date|}}}</includeonly><noinclude> = Template:Cite news = Formats a citation for a newspaper or magazine article. == Usage == <pre> <ref>{{Cite news |author= |title= |newspaper= |date= |page= |url= |access-date= }}</ref> </pre> == Parameters == {| class="wikitable" ! Parameter ! Required ! Description |- | author | Yes | Author of the article. |- | title...")
  • 13:55, 2 July 2026 Eashcroft talk contribs created page Template:Cite journal (Created page with "<includeonly>{{{author|}}}. "{{{title|}}}." ''{{{journal|}}}''{{{volume|}}}{{{issue|}}}. {{{pages|}}}. {{{year|}}}.{{{doi|}}}{{{url|}}}{{{access-date|}}}</includeonly><noinclude> = Template:Cite journal = Formats a citation for an academic journal article. == Usage == <pre> <ref>{{Cite journal |author= |title= |journal= |volume= |issue= |pages= |year= |doi= |url= |access-date= }}</ref> </pre> == Parameters == {| class="wikitable" ! Parameter ! Required !...")
  • 13:53, 2 July 2026 Eashcroft talk contribs created page Template:Cite book (Created page with "<includeonly>{{{author|}}}. ''{{{title|}}}''{{#if:{{{edition|}}}| {{{edition}}}.}}{{#if:{{{place|}}}| {{{place}}}:}} {{{publisher|}}}, {{{year|}}}.{{#if:{{{isbn|}}}| ISBN {{{isbn}}}.}}{{#if:{{{page|}}}| p. {{{page}}}.}}{{#if:{{{url|}}}| [{{{url}}} Online].}}{{#if:{{{access-date|}}}| Retrieved {{{access-date}}}.}}</includeonly><noinclude> = Template:Cite book = Formats a citation for a printed or online book. == Usage == <pre> <ref>{{Cite book |author= |title= |edi...")
  • 13:49, 2 July 2026 Eashcroft talk contribs created page Template:External link (Created page with "== External links == * {{External link |title=City of London Corporation |url=https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/ }} * {{External link |title=Historic England |url=https://historicengland.org.uk/ }}")
  • 01:16, 2 July 2026 Eashcroft talk contribs created page Template:Further reading (Created page with "<includeonly> * {{#if:{{{author|}}}|{{{author}}}. }} ''{{{title|Untitled}}}''{{#if:{{{edition|}}}|, {{{edition}}}}}. {{#if:{{{place|}}}|{{{place}}}: }}{{#if:{{{publisher|}}}|{{{publisher}}}}}{{#if:{{{year|}}}|, {{{year}}}}}. {{#if:{{{isbn|}}}| ISBN {{{isbn}}}.}} </includeonly> <noinclude> = Template:Further reading = Formats entries for the ''Further reading'' section. == Usage == <pre> {{Further reading |author= |title= |edition= |place= |publisher= |year= |i...")
  • 01:10, 2 July 2026 Eashcroft talk contribs created page City of London (Created page with "= City of London = thumb|350px|The City of London skyline, viewed from across the River Thames. The City forms the historic core of London and remains a distinct local government area within it. The '''City of London''' — commonly known as ''the City'' or ''the Square Mile'' — is a city, ceremonial county and local government district forming the historic centre of London, England.<ref name="col2"...")
  • 00:49, 2 July 2026 Eashcroft talk contribs created page Sandbox (Created page with "This is a test sentence.<ref>This is my first test reference.</ref> This sentence cites the same reference again.<ref>This is my first test reference.</ref> == References == <references />")
  • 00:45, 2 July 2026 Eashcroft talk contribs created page Template:Cite web (Created page with "<includeonly>{{{last|}}}{{#if:{{{first|}}}|, {{{first}}}|}}. “{{{title|No title}}}.” ''{{{website|}}}''{{#if:{{{publisher|}}}|, {{{publisher}}}|}}{{#if:{{{date|}}}|, {{{date}}}|}}. [{{{url|}}} {{{url|}}}] {{#if:{{{access-date|}}}| (accessed {{{access-date}}})|}}.</includeonly> <noinclude> == Usage == <pre> {{cite web |url= |title= |website= |publisher= |last= |first= |date= |access-date= }} </pre> </noinclude>")
  • 00:07, 2 July 2026 Eashcroft talk contribs created page Fleet Street (Created page with "= Fleet Street = thumb|350px|Fleet Street in the City of London. For centuries the street was synonymous with British journalism and publishing. '''Fleet Street''' is a historic street in the City of London, England, extending east from Temple Bar to Ludgate Circus. For more than three centuries it served as the traditional centre of the British newspaper industry, becoming so closely associated with journalism that th...")
  • 21:27, 1 July 2026 Eashcroft talk contribs created page Thia Typo (Created page with "= Thia Typo = '''Miss Thia Typo''' (1848–1917) was an English typesetter employed in the newspaper district of Fleet Street during the late nineteenth century. Although remembered publicly for an extraordinary number of printing errors attributed to her, historians of the Royal Society of Everyday Phenomena argue that many of these incidents represented the earliest documented examples of ''Typographic Drift''. Thia Typo has since become one of the most f...")
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