Text Mining for Historians: Natural Language Processing

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...

How can historians develop an effective social media presence?

On Tuesday 29 January we held a workshop at the Institute of Historical Research for postgraduate students and early career researchers. The main aim of the event was to learn from best practice in the archives and library sector, and to help historians develop skills...

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...

InScribe goes live

After a period of tests, the introductory module of the new online course on Palaeography and Manuscript Studies is now available. InScribe provides a set of materials suitable both for someone interested in exploring Palaeography for the first time as well as for...