One of our summer interns from Leicester University, Charlotte Ward, writes in a guest post: For my BA dissertation I am looking at ‘Crime and Punishment in the British Navy and Army during the wars with France from 1793-1815’ so I decided that I would create a...
This time last year the IHR was preparing to host the conference Novel approaches: from academic history to historical fiction. The conference covered such areas as the transition of historians from writing history to writing historical fiction; the differences and...
At BHO we are considering the possibility of republishing some of the transcriptions produced by Eighteenth Century Collections Online Text Creation Partnership (ECCO-TCP). Our aim would be to select texts that work particularly well with current BHO content, but we...
This is a guest post by Kathryn Hemingway, one of IHR Digital’s summer interns from the University of Leicester. In attempting to create my first connection on Connected Histories, I chose the topic of the Stamp Act Crisis of 1765. It was my intention to choose...
Like most people who have had RSI, I sympathise with the words of the Cole Porter song: Comes the measles, you can quarantine the room. Comes a mouse, you can chase it with a broom. When my RSI has been at its worst I have unplugged my mouse and put it away, so that I...
Noam Chomsky We’re all familiar with traditional citation metrics: you measure references to books, articles, and people, and those references occur in other books and articles. For example between 1980 and 1992, according to this article, the linguistics maven...
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