Oct 24, 2013
The next Digital History seminar will be streamed over live video link on 29 October 2013 at 5.15pm (GMT). See details below: Title: Ideology and Algorithms: The uses of nationalism in the American Civil War and topic Modeling in historical Research Speaker: Robert...
Oct 17, 2013
Going Underground: Travel Beneath the Metropolis 1863-2013James Wolfinger A Transatlantic Connection: Philadelphia, London, and Urban Public Transit at the Turn of the Twentieth Century18 January 2013By American standards, Philadelphia was a large, dense, and old city...
Oct 10, 2013
This year the Digital History seminar will again be streaming live over the internet. The first of these will be this coming Tuesday (15 October) when long-time attendee Adam Crymble (King’s College London) will be discussing his doctorate study. Please feel...
Oct 3, 2013
Asa Briggs Conference19 May 2011Various speakers Asa Briggs, British historian and author of a trilogy of books on Victorian life was 90 years old two years ago. To mark the occasion the IHR (which also shared its birthday with Lord Briggs) held a one day...
Sep 26, 2013
Going Underground: Travel Beneath the Metropolis 1863-2013David PikeHitchcock’s Underground18 January 2013 Abstract: “Hitchcock’s Underground” studies the fascinating intersection between one of cinema’s foremost directors and perhaps London’s most frequently filmed...
Sep 19, 2013
Digital History seminar23 October 2012Luke Blaxill (King’s College London)Quantifying the Language of British Politics, 1880-1914Abstract: This paper explores the power, potential, and challenges of studying historical political speeches using a specially constructed...