Managing your Data for Historians – new AHRC-funded project History DMT

Historians don’t often like to think about data management.  Indeed, it is almost considered an ugly word or a taboo.  Data Management gets in the way of the interesting stuff – the research, the learning.  Nevertheless, it is vital to the work that we do.  History is...

Urbanising China in war and peace, Wuxi 1911-1945

Metropolitan History seminar23 November 2011Urbanising China in war and peace, Wuxi 1911-1945Toby Lincoln (Centre for Urban History, Leicester)   Toby Lincoln examines Wuxi at the beginning of the twentieth century asking questions of its urban development, its...

Text Mining for Historians: Natural Language Processing

The Institute of Historical Research now offer a wide selection of digital research training packages designed for historians and made available online on History SPOT.  Most of these have received mention on this blog from time to time and hopefully some of you will...

La Dictablanda: Soft Authoritarianism in Mexico, 1940-1968

Latin American History8 January 2013Ben Smith (Warwick)La Dictablanda: Soft Authoritarianism in Mexico, 1940-1968  In 1929 the National Revolutionary Party (PNR) was formed and later renamed Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).  Between 1940 and 1970 this...