Just a quick post today to draw your attention to the minor updates to the blog layout. It’s nothing major; I would like to do more and really give the History SPOT blog a fresh look, but that will have to wait for another time – perhaps the summer when...
Digital History seminarBen Schmidt (Princeton University)Unintended consequences: digital reading and the loci of cultural changeTuesday 12 March 2013, 5.15pm GMT Live Stream (click here on Tuesday to view the live stream) Abstract: Large scale digital reading is, as...
Studies of Home9 January 2013Abigail Williams (University of Oxford)Sighs and settees: recovering the lost history of reading aloud in the eighteenth century What did we do before television? Radio, of course! But what did we do before Radio? In the fifteenth...
Latin American HistoryRothschild, Quicksilver and Mining: A Global Monopoly from a Bolivian PerspectiveTristan Platt (St Andrews)29 November 2011 The trade in quicksilver (more commonly called Mercury) was a potentially lucrative business at the turn of the...
Tim Sherratt (Independent scholar) Exposing the Archives of White Australia Digital History Seminar, Institute for Historical Research https://www.history.ac.uk/events/seminars/321 | #dhist Bedford Room G37, Senate House, Ground floor, 5:15 pm (GMT) With the passing...
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...
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