Big Data in the Humanities: lessons from papyrus and Instagram

This is a cross-posting of an item that our colleague Josh Cowls has just written for his own blog. Thanks to Josh for permission to repost here.   I’m currently in Washington DC to attend the IEEE International Conference on Big Data. The first day is set...

Search results for historical material

This is a guest post by Jaspreet Singh, a researcher at the L3S Research Center in Hanover. Jaspreet writes: When people use a commercial search engine to search for information, they represent their intent using a set of keywords. In most cases this is to quickly...

Institute of Historical Research gets royal reopening

The Institute of Historical Research was officially reopened by Her Royal Highness Princess Anne, on Tuesday 14 October. The Princess Royal, who is Chancellor of the University of London, was given a tour of the Institute’s new facilities including the library,...

Research training at the IHR

Training in research skills for young and aspiring researchers has been central to the IHR’s remit since its foundation in 1921. In recent years, the training programme has expanded and diversified, reflecting both a great broadening in the scope of historical enquiry...

New issue of Historical Research

Historical Research – November 2014 (vol. 87, no. 238) Contents: Articles Toward a historical dialectic of culinary styles (pages 581–590) Ken Albala Episcopal emotions: tears in the life of the medieval bishop (pages 591–610) Katherine Harvey Licit medicine or...