InScribe Paleography Learning materials

In this blog post I would like to introduce you to our latest research training module on History SPOT.  InScribe is an online course for the study of Palaeography and Manuscript Studies developed by several of the institutes within the School of Advanced Study...

Computer-Assisted Review

Archives and Society seminar6 November 2012Kirsten Ferguson-Boucher (University of Aberystwyth)Computer-Assisted Review  Kirsten Ferguson-Boucher talks about Computer-Assisted Review (also called content analysis amongst other things).  There is a lot of detail...

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...