An open notebook with colourful geological sketches

Transcribing Ruskin’s Notebooks

This project aims to make John Ruskin’s manuscript notebooks more accessible and to enable new ways of exploring Ruskin’s works and world.

We need your help to transcribe the manuscript notebooks of John Ruskin (1819–1900), artist, writer & radical thinker.

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An open notebook with colourful geological sketches
John Ruskin, ‘Diary of John Ruskin – 1861, 1862, 1863’, 1861-1863, MS 12 © The Ruskin, Lancaster University

Project Lead: Professor Sandra Kemp, The Ruskin