Digging into Parliamentary Data tutorial

Jaap Kamps and Maarten Marx (both University of Amsterdam) will give a tutorial at Digital Libraries 2014, London, called Digging into Parliamentary Data. Date: Monday, 8th September. The tutorial will show how to incrementally annotate textual corpora, starting from...

New reviews: Black Detroit, guano, predestinarians and Stalinism

Just occasionally the monastic silence that prevails in the IHR Digital office is broken by the gentle chiming of hushed conversation (work-related of course). In one such interlude this morning I mentioned today’s reviews, and expressed my concern that perhaps a...

Digging into Linked Parliamentary Data

The IHR is one of the partners on an international project, Digging into Linked Parliamentary Data, to research parliamentary language on an unprecedented scale. We are leading the UK arm of a collaboration with the Netherlands and Canada which will enrich and analyse...

Introducing the new Postdoctoral Fellow in North American History

Welcome to the inaugural blog post in a series promoting the American history resources available at the IHR. In this post I would like to take the opportunity to introduce myself. My name is Benjamin Bankhurst and I have recently joined the School of Advanced Study...

Introducing the History of Parliament

This is a post by Paul Seaward, introducing the History of Parliament – of which he is the director – and its involvement in the project. The History of Parliament has long been an established feature in the landscape of British history. The product of an...