Sources of Evidence for Automatic Indexing of Political Texts

Political texts on the Web, documenting laws and policies and the process leading to them, are of key importance to government, industry, and every individual citizen.  Yet access to such texts is difficult due to the ever increasing volume and complexity of the...

New reviews: Magna Carta, Lady Antonia, memory and French Army

We’re delighted to be able to present to you a review of the new BL exhibition on Magna Carta: Law, Liberty, Legacy. John Sabapathy reviews a wonderful exhibition which is as much about Magna Carta’s 800 year reception as its immediate 13th-century matrix (no....

The Historical Aspects of Dilipad: Challenges and Opportunities

This post originally appeared on the Digging into Linked Parliamentary Data project blog, and is a guest post by one of the historians working the project, Luke Blaxill. The Dilipad project is on one hand exciting because it will allow us to investigate ambitious...