Digital Tools for historians workshop (Thursday 21 June 2012)

History SPOT will soon be home to training modules from the IHR Digital project (funded by JISC) HISTORE.  This project is developing short modules introducing various digital tools that might be of use to historians.  For instance, I’m currently working on the...

Taking the Field: Telling the Stories of Grassroots Cricket

Sport and Leisure History9 January 2012 Dr Emma Peplow (University of Glamorgan/Marylebone Cricket Club)Taking the Field: Telling the Stories of Grassroots Cricket   Most histories of cricket ignore the grassroots game in favour of the bigger teams.  Emma Peplow...

The Old Bailey Corpus: Spoken English in the 18th and 19th Centuries

Digital History seminar21 February 2012Magnus Huber (Giessen)The Old Bailey Corpus: Spoken English in the 18th and 19th Centuries The Old Bailey Proceedings Online is a heavily used resource by historians of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries who want to look at...