Colonial Despatches

Edition 2.3

• The site design has been refreshed.
• New content on decolonization has been added.
• The Search page has been substantially enhanced with the addition of type-ahead controls to search more easily for proper names, and some detailed instructions for effective searching.

Edition 2.2

• Added more organizations to index as well as some descriptions (currently 64 organizations).
• Tagged majority of organizations in the database (12761).
• Added a few hundred more abstracts.
• All places with a known location have a map.
• The initial version of the Indigenous glossary of terms has been completed.
• Fixed a couple encoding bugs (missing divs in transcribed enclosures, unwanted text edits).
• Removed titles and roles from Despatch citations as per request from Principal Investigator.
• Mentions of [entity] in the documents in the indexes are now sorted by date sent and date received when available.

Edition 2.1

• Several new sections have been added to the About page, including:
  • Colonial Office Staff and Consultants
  • The Despatches at Court
  • Decolonizing the Despatches
  • Glossary of Terms
• Many more biographies and abstracts have been added to the collection.
• The search page now allows the use of wildcards (* = anything and ? = zero or one character). This can be helpful when searching for names or terms that may be inconsistently spelled.
• The facsimile browser has been rewritten to improve its responsiveness.
• Encoding Documentation and Guidelines have been updated.