Text mining for Historians

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...

Blogging for Historians

When you read a blog post about History what are you looking for?  If you own a blog do you write posts about historical topics?  Why do you do this?  What do you get out of it?  These are all things that are of interest for the Blogging for Historians project.  The...

Building and Using Databases for Historical Research – now live!

Today we are presenting the second of our recent additions to online training. The Institute of Historical Research are very pleased to announce the launch of our first extensive and comprehensive online training course: Building and Using Databases for Historical...

Profiling Irish Crime in London, 1801-1820

British History in the Long eighteenth century seminar24 October 2012Adam Crymble (King’s College, London University)Profiling Irish Crime in London, 1801-1820Through a combination of close and distant reading of the online Old Bailey Proceedings in conjunction with...

2012 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 4,329 films were submitted to the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. This blog had 24,000 views in 2012. If each view were a film, this blog would power 6 Film...