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15:3915:39, 3 July 2026 The London Sentinel (hist | edit) [9,858 bytes] Eashcroft (talk | contribs) (Created page with "‘’’’‘The London Sentinel’’’’’ was a London newspaper best known in Folklorica scholarship for publishing the public notice from Ludgate Bank that precipitated the Great Comma Incident of 14 March 1887. The notice, set by the compositor Thia Typo, contained a misplaced comma that rendered its crucial final clause ambiguous during a period of unrelated rumours concerning the bank’s financial position. Although the paper itself was not the...")
14:3714:37, 3 July 2026 Josiah Vane (hist | edit) [5,981 bytes] Eashcroft (talk | contribs) (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=...")
14:2714:27, 3 July 2026 Institute Press (hist | edit) [7,343 bytes] Eashcroft (talk | contribs) (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]...")
08:5408:54, 3 July 2026 Fenwick House Press (hist | edit) [5,293 bytes] Eashcroft (talk | contribs) (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...")
02:3502:35, 3 July 2026 Typographic Drift (hist | edit) [6,900 bytes] Eashcroft (talk | contribs) (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...")
02:2202:22, 3 July 2026 Great Comma Incident (hist | edit) [6,355 bytes] Eashcroft (talk | contribs) (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...")
02:0002:00, 3 July 2026 Royal Society of Everyday Phenomena (hist | edit) [5,576 bytes] Eashcroft (talk | contribs) (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...")

17:1917:19, 2 July 2026 Edmund Ashcroft (hist | edit) [3,763 bytes] Eashcroft (talk | contribs) (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...")
17:1117:11, 2 July 2026 Encyclopedia Folklorica (hist | edit) [5,736 bytes] Eashcroft (talk | contribs) (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...")
17:0417:04, 2 July 2026 Folklorica Institute (hist | edit) [6,446 bytes] Eashcroft (talk | contribs) (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 ''...")
01:1001:10, 2 July 2026 City of London (hist | edit) [14,086 bytes] Eashcroft (talk | contribs) (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"...")
00:4900:49, 2 July 2026 Sandbox (hist | edit) [228 bytes] Eashcroft (talk | contribs) (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 />")
00:0700:07, 2 July 2026 Fleet Street (hist | edit) [12,425 bytes] Eashcroft (talk | contribs) (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...")

21:2721:27, 1 July 2026 Thia Typo (hist | edit) [4,715 bytes] Eashcroft (talk | contribs) (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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