Digital History seminar (live stream tonight)

The IHR Seminar in Digital History would like to welcome you to its first seminar of the academic year. Presenter:  Camille Desenclos (École nationale des chartes, Sorbonne) Title: ‘Rethinking historical research in the digital age: a TEI approach’ Date: October 9,...

The Origins of a Coming Ideal: Meritocracy in Britain 1750-1850

British History in the Long 18th CenturyThe Origins of a Coming Ideal: Meritocracy in Britain 1750-1850Penelope J. Corfield (Emeritus Professor)25 May 2010 This is a guest post by James Wilkinson, one of IHR Digital’s summer interns from the University of...

History SPOT is changing

On the 19th September History SPOT celebrated its 1 year birthday, or rather we didn’t.  We completely missed the date.  However, the 1 year mark, while important, is not as important as what we intend to do for the near future.  A while back I mentioned that...

Launching digital tools modules: Semantic Mark-up and Text Mining

Two new inter-related free modules are now available on the History SPOT platform beginning a series on digital tools. The first is about semantic mark-up – this is a beginner’s guide to marking up a text in XML so that it is searchable for information pertinent to...