Ruth Byrne, Lancaster
Institute of Historical Research The History of Learning Digital History, c. 1980-2017 Adam Crymble (University of Hertfordshire) Digital History seminar series
Institute of Historical Research What do we know about the ODNB? Elite Lives at Scale Christopher N. Warren (Carnegie Mellon University) On its release in 2004, the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography was called ‘the greatest book ever,...
Institute of Historical Research Hearing voices: Sound, space and experience at the Old Bailey Tim Hitchcock (University of Sussex) Combining 3D modelling of the Old Bailey courtroom c.1800 with textual analysis of the recorded speech of defe...
Institute of Historical Research Documenting British slave-owners in the Caribbean c.1763 - c.1860 Keith McClelland (University College London) Digital History seminar series
Institute of Historical Research Making an Impression: Book Illustrations and their Technologies in Britain, 1780-1850 Will Finley (University of Sheffield) Digital History seminar series
Institute of Historical Research "The Best Mechanical Paper in the World": Scientific American, Reprinting, and the Circulation of Popular Science in Nineteenth-Century Newspaper Ryan Cordell In this talk, Ryan Cordell will draw from the Viral...
Institute of Historical Research "The Best Mechanical Paper in the World": Scientific American, Reprinting, and the Circulation of Popular Science in Nineteenth-Century Newspaper Ryan Cordell In this talk, Ryan Cordell will draw from the Viral...
Institute of Historical Research European or imperial metropolis? Depictions of London in British newspapers, 1870-1900 Tessa Hauswedell (University College London) Digital History seminar series
Institute of Historical Research Remixing Digital Archives: The Victorian Meme Machine Bob Nicholson (Edge Hill University) History has not been kind to Victorian jokes. While the great works of nineteenth-century art and literature have been...
Institute of Historical Research Boutique Big Data: Reintegrating Close and Distant Reading of 19th-Century Newspapers Dr Melodee Beals (Loughborough University) From their earliest incarnations in the seventeenth-century, through their Georg...
Institute of Historical Research Virtual Rome: a digital reconstruction of the ancient city Dr Matthew Nicholls (University of Reading) Dr Matthew Nicholls of the Department of Classics at the University of Reading has made a detailed digital...
Institute of Historical Research Virtual Rome: a digital reconstruction of the ancient city Dr Matthew Nicholls (Reading) Dr Matthew Nicholls of the Department of Classics at the University of Reading has made a detailed digital reconstructio...
Institute of Historical Research Text Mining the History of Medicine Sophia Ananiadou (Manchester University) I will present the results of a collaborative and interdisciplinary project between the National Centre for Text Mining (NaCTeM) and...
Institute of Historical Research Lost Visions: retrieving the visual element of printed books Julia Thomas, Nicky Lloyd and Ian Harvey (Cardiff) Despite the mass digitization of books, illustrations have remained more or less invisible. As ...
Institute of Historical Research Tracking the Emergence of New Words across Time and Space Jack Grieve (Aston) Very little is known about how new words spread in language. New words are regularly identified by lexicographers, linguists, and t...
Institute of Historical Research Tracking the Emergence of New Words across Time and Space Jack Grieve (Aston) Very little is known about how new words spread in language. New words are regularly identified by lexicographers, linguists, and...
Institute of Historical Research Citizen History and its discontents Mia Ridge (Open University) An increasing number of crowdsourcing projects are making claims about 'citizen history' - but are they really helping people become historians,...
Institute of Historical Research Interrogating the archived UK web: Historians and Social Scientists Research Experiences Dr Gareth Millward is currently a Research Fellow at the Centre for History in Public Health at the London School of Hygiene...
Institute of Historical Research Introducing Paper Machines Jo Guldi (Brown University) Historians of the twentieth century have to contend with a technological problem, the issue of archives too large to process by traditional methods. Whil...