Caroline Barron on RCHME

Professor Caroline Barron has kindly written a guest post for us about the importance of the London volumes of the Royal Commission series. Four of the five volumes are now freely available on British History Online and can be found here. The outstanding volume, on...

Text mining – articles, courses and podcasts I

  The journal Victorian Studies has published a series of articles under the title Forum on evidence and interprestation in the digital age. [1] Andrew Stauffer, in his introduction, quotes a comment from the Daily News, 1869…. Must we not pity the historians of...

GIS in the Digital Humanities: A free one day seminar

Lancaster University Friday 30th November, 2012 Geographical Information Systems (GIS) are becoming increasingly used by historians, archaeologists, literary scholars, classicists and others with an interest in humanities geographies. Take-up has been hampered by a...

Digital Milton

On 13th November the IHR’s annual Creighton Lecture will be given by Professor Quentin Skinner, on Milton as a theorist of liberty. Quentin Skinner is well known as a historian of political thought and has written extensively on major figures such as Hobbes and...