Online History Courses

At the workshop held by the IHR on Tuesday this week we held presentations from myself, my colleagues at the IHR Simon Trafford and Mark Merry (IHR Training), and Chris Williams, Stuart Mitchell, and Wendy Mears from the Open University History MA course.  Over the...

Delivering Online Training and Teaching

Earlier this week the IHR held an afternoon workshop on the topic of developing online research training and course delivery.  The event attracted around 20 people from various professions and bringing with them differing expertise.  In all the event was a great...

SPOT Newsletter: 22 June 2011

Hello and welcome to this week’s SPOT Newsletter. Today we have two papers on Britain. The first focuses on gambling laws in the early twentieth century whilst the second discusses the proliferation of museums in the nineteenth century. Although these topics do not...

Digital History seminar

Yesterday we held the final Digital History seminar live stream for this semester.  Professor Tim Hitchcock admitted that this was perhaps not his most interesting talk (in terms of historical antidotes) but an important one for the promotion of new technologies as a...

Online Training Workshop: 21 June 2011

There are still spaces on our workshop about Developing Online Research Training and Course Delivery if anyone would like to join us?  Please email us at history.spot@sas.ac.uk to register interest.  This should be an interesting event as the discussion around online...

IHR Live Stream: Text Mining the Old Bailey Proceedings

Digital History seminar series 14 June 2011 Professor Tim Hitchcock (Hertfordshire) Text Mining the Old Bailey Proceedings  Please join us next Tuesday for our third Digital History seminar live stream.  In this session Professor Tim Hitchcock will talk about the Old...