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The Digital History seminar at the Institute of Historical Research

School of Advanced Study, University of London


    • Feb 20, 2018 LATEST EPISODE
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    • 68 EPISODES


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    The Language of Migration in the Victorian Press: A Corpus Linguistic Approach

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 20, 2018 49:53


    Ruth Byrne, Lancaster

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    The History of Learning Digital History, c. 1980-2017

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 16, 2017 47:11


    Institute of Historical Research The History of Learning Digital History, c. 1980-2017 Adam Crymble (University of Hertfordshire) Digital History seminar series

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    The History of Learning Digital History, c. 1980-2017

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 16, 2017


    Institute of Historical Research The History of Learning Digital History, c. 1980-2017 Adam Crymble (University of Hertfordshire) Digital History seminar series

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    What do we know about the ODNB? Elite Lives at Scale

    Play Episode Listen Later May 22, 2017


    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,...

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    What do we know about the ODNB? Elite Lives at Scale

    Play Episode Listen Later May 22, 2017 43:11


    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,...

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    Hearing voices: Sound, space and experience at the Old Bailey

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 24, 2017 44:35


    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...

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    Hearing voices: Sound, space and experience at the Old Bailey

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 24, 2017


    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...

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    Documenting British slave-owners in the Caribbean c.1763 - c.1860

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 30, 2017 49:48


    Institute of Historical Research Documenting British slave-owners in the Caribbean c.1763 - c.1860 Keith McClelland (University College London) Digital History seminar series

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    Documenting British slave-owners in the Caribbean c.1763 - c.1860

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 30, 2017


    Institute of Historical Research Documenting British slave-owners in the Caribbean c.1763 - c.1860 Keith McClelland (University College London) Digital History seminar series

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    Making an Impression: Book Illustrations and their Technologies in Britain, 1780-1850

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 7, 2016


    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

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    Making an Impression: Book Illustrations and their Technologies in Britain, 1780-1850

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 7, 2016 35:02


    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

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    "The Best Mechanical Paper in the World": Scientific American, Reprinting, and the Circulation of Popular Science in Nineteenth-Century Newspape

    Play Episode Listen Later May 16, 2016 58:54


    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...

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    "The Best Mechanical Paper in the World": Scientific American, Reprinting, and the Circulation of Popular Science in Nineteenth-Century Newspaper

    Play Episode Listen Later May 16, 2016


    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...

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    European or imperial metropolis? Depictions of London in British newspapers, 1870-1900

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 18, 2016 49:04


    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

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    European or imperial metropolis? Depictions of London in British newspapers, 1870-1900

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 18, 2016


    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

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    Remixing Digital Archives: The Victorian Meme Machine

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 9, 2015 54:00


    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...

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    Remixing Digital Archives: The Victorian Meme Machine

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 9, 2015


    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...

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    Boutique Big Data: Reintegrating Close and Distant Reading of 19th-Century Newspapers

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 26, 2015


    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...

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    Boutique Big Data: Reintegrating Close and Distant Reading of 19th-Century Newspapers

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 26, 2015


    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...

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    Virtual Rome: a digital reconstruction of the ancient city

    Play Episode Listen Later May 25, 2015 40:34


    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...

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    Virtual Rome: a digital reconstruction of the ancient city

    Play Episode Listen Later May 25, 2015


    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...

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    Text Mining the History of Medicine

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 23, 2015 57:23


    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...

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    Text Mining the History of Medicine

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 23, 2015


    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...

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    Lost Visions: retrieving the visual element of printed books

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 9, 2015


    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 ...

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    Lost Visions: retrieving the visual element of printed books

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 9, 2015 48:40


    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 ...

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    Tracking the Emergence of New Words across Time and Space

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 23, 2015


    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...

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    Tracking the Emergence of New Words across Time and Space

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 23, 2015 62:02


    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...

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    Citizen History and its discontents

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 17, 2014 56:35


    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,...

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    Citizen History and its discontents

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 17, 2014


    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,...

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    Interrogating the archived UK web: Historians and Social Scientists Research Experiences

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 3, 2014 57:52


    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...

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    Interrogating the archived UK web: Historians and Social Scientists Research Experiences

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 3, 2014


    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...

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    Introducing Paper Machines

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 6, 2014 50:30


    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...

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    Introducing Paper Machines

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 6, 2014


    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...

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    Mapping the medieval countryside

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 16, 2014


    Institute of Historical Research Mapping the medieval countryside Dr Matthew Holford (University of Winchester) Digital History Seminar Series

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    Mapping the medieval countryside

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 16, 2014 85:05


    Institute of Historical Research Mapping the medieval countryside Dr Matthew Holford (University of Winchester) Digital History Seminar Series

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    Digitising the First World War: opportunities and challenges

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 2, 2014


    Institute of Historical Research Digitising the First World War: opportunities and challenges Professor Sir Deian Hopkin (President of the National Library of Wales) Digital History Seminar Series

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    Digitising the First World War: opportunities and challenges

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 2, 2014 76:57


    Institute of Historical Research Digitising the First World War: opportunities and challenges Professor Sir Deian Hopkin (President of the National Library of Wales) Digital History Seminar Series

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    Virtual St Paul's Cathedral and Paul's Cross

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 17, 2014


    Institute of Historical Research John Schofield (St Paul's Cathedral) and John Wall (North Carolina State University) http://vpcp.chass.ncsu.edu/ Digital History

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    Virtual St Paul's Cathedral and Paul's Cross

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 17, 2014 76:18


    Institute of Historical Research John Schofield (St Paul's Cathedral) and John Wall (North Carolina State University) http://vpcp.chass.ncsu.edu/ Digital History

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    Ideology and algorithms: the uses of nationalism in the American Civil War and topic modelling in historical research

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 19, 2013


    Rob Nelson (University of Richmond) 29 October 2013 Digital History seminar Institute of Historical Research

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    The Programming Historian 2: collaborative pedagogy for digital history

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 19, 2013


    Adam Crymble (King’s College London) 15 October 2013 Digital History seminar Institute of Historical Research

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    Web Archives: A New Class of Primary Source for Historians? - Peter Webster

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 10, 2013 26:55


    Institute of Historical Research Web Archives: A New Class of Primary Source for Historians? Peter Webster (British Library) When viewed in historical context, the speed at which the world wide web has become fundamental to the exchange of in...

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    Web Archives: A New Class of Primary Source for Historians? - Richard Deswarte

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 10, 2013 22:04


    Institute of Historical Research Web Archives: A New Class of Primary Source for Historians? Richard Deswarte (UEA) When viewed in historical context, the speed at which the world wide web has become fundamental to the exchange of information...

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    From computers and history to digital history: a retrospective - Sir Roderick Floud

    Play Episode Listen Later May 27, 2013 21:00


    Institute of Historical Research From computers and history to digital history: a retrospective Sir Roderick Floud (Gresham College) Historians were among the first humanities scholars to utilize computers as research tools, recognizing their...

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    From computers and history to digital history: a retrospective - Dr Don Spaeth

    Play Episode Listen Later May 27, 2013 17:52


    Institute of Historical Research From computers and history to digital history: a retrospective Dr Don Spaeth (Glasgow) Historians were among the first humanities scholars to utilize computers as research tools, recognizing their value as ea...

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    From computers and history to digital history: a retrospective - Professor Robert Shoemaker

    Play Episode Listen Later May 27, 2013 22:34


    Institute of Historical Research From computers and history to digital history: a retrospective Professor Robert Shoemaker (Sheffield) Historians were among the first humanities scholars to utilize computers as research tools, recognizing the...

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    The People of Medieval Scotland database: A prosopographical survey

    Play Episode Listen Later May 13, 2013 56:24


    Institute of Historical Research The People of Medieval Scotland database: A prosopographical survey Matthew Hammond This is a seminar about a prosopographical database, ‘The People of Medieval Scotland, 1093-1314’, which has been in produ...

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    'Unintended Consequences': Digital reading and the loci of cultural change

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 11, 2013 53:47


    Institute of Historical Research 'Unintended Consequences': Digital reading and the loci of cultural change Ben Schmidt (Princeton University) Digital History seminar series

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    Exposing the Archives of White Australia

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 25, 2013 61:41


    Institute of Historical Research Exposing the Archives of White Australia Tim Sherratt (Independent Scholar) Digital History seminar series

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    Mapping Everyday Life: Digital Harlem, 1915-1930

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 7, 2013


    Institute of Historical Research Mapping Everyday Life: Digital Harlem, 1915-1930 Stephen Robertson (University of Sydney) Digital History seminar series

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    An Ecology for Digital Scholarship

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 3, 2012 25:48


    Institute of Historical Research An Ecology for Digital Scholarship Jason M. Kelly (IUPUI) Digital History seminar series

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