The Future of the Past

The most recent session in our Digital History seminar was a little different from most: a roundtable with a very wide theme. Entitled ‘The Future of the Past’, it featured Melissa Terras (UCL), Adam Farquhar (British Library), Torsten Reimer (JISC) and...

Digital History seminar – spring term 2012

We’re delighted to be able to publicise our programme for this term, full details of which are available on the main IHR site.First up is Professor Magnus Huber (Universitaet Giessen), who will speak on what can be learned from the Old Bailey Online corpus for...

"I’m not a digital historian, but.."

One noticeable oddity in the first few sessions of the new Digital History seminar has been the slight reluctance amongst some scholars to consider themselves a “digital historian.” Just as one sometimes hears the phrase “I’m not a feminist,...

New Digital History seminar at the IHR

We’re delighted to be able to announce details of the first term of the new Digital History seminar, in association with IHR Digital. There will be three sessions in May and June, and the first will be on Tuesday 17th May, with Professor Adrian Bell (Reading) and Dr...