Visualizing Parliamentary Discourse with Word2Vec and Gephi.

This is a post by Kaspar Beelen. Kaspar is a post-doctoral researcher with the Toronto part of the project team. Introduction For historians, the idea of “automated” content analysis is still contested and treated with a justified dose of suspicion. How...

Behind the scenes at British History Online

A few months ago, I posted an image of seventeen volumes to the BHO Twitter account. These volumes were from several different series: London Record Society, Victoria County History Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire and Calendar of Scottish papers. That day, we were...

PASSAGE: A symposium on writing about walking in London, 1500-1900

The Dr Seng Tee Lee Centre, Senate House Library October 27th 2015 The University of London’s Senate House Library will be hosting a symposium in connection with a new project to begin later this year being jointly run by the Centre for Metropolitan History at the...

IHR research guides give hands-on support to students and researchers

This post was originally published on the Talking Humanities blog of the School of Advanced Study The Institute of Historical Research (IHR) has just published Using Film as a Source, the first in a new series of research guides designed to equip students and new...

Update on IHR Fellows – new jobs, grants and publications!

News from our 2014-15 Junior Research Fellows Mellon Fellow Kate Imy recently published an article in Gender and History that was based in part on a conference paper that she gave at an IHR-funded conference during her time as a Fellow at the IHR.  ‘Queering the...