Digital History seminar

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...

Ruth Byrne, Lancaster