Exploring the Domain Dark Archive

Bookings are open now for the first of a series of day workshops on the Domain Dark Archive, a comprehensive archive of websites from the UK web domain for the period 1996 to 2010. Our new JISC-funded AADDA project (Analytical Access to the Domain Dark Archive) is a...

Searching for condoms on ECCO

Perhaps it’s the library geek in me but I enjoy articles which describe the construction and improvement of online searching. One such piece is by Patrick Spedding about using the Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO). This collection is derived from the...

The Siege of Jerusalem poem as digital media

The Siege of Jerusalem is a Middle English poem from the late fourteenth century which relates the fall of the city in 70AD. Literary critics and historians have discussed the poem, particularly focusing on its anti-Semitism and graphic portrayal of violence. There...

The shock of the old

When I worked for EEBO-TCP it seemed to me that many features of early printing were replicated on early websites. The to-and-fro of intemperate bloggers, responding angrily to each other’s posts, reminded me of the equally intemperate pamphlet wars that I...

Digitisation of legal history

© United Kingdom Supreme CourtWhat is the heraldic emblem of Northern Ireland? I learned the answer on a recent tour of the UK Supreme Court, whose logo represents the constituent parts of the UK with their emblems.The court came into existence in 2009 and immediately...

The Future of the Past

The most recent session in our Digital History seminar was a little different from most: a roundtable with a very wide theme. Entitled ‘The Future of the Past’, it featured Melissa Terras (UCL), Adam Farquhar (British Library), Torsten Reimer (JISC) and...