Quantifying the Language of British Politics, 1880-1914

Sep 19, 2013

Digital History seminar23 October 2012Luke Blaxill (King’s College London)Quantifying the Language of British Politics, 1880-1914Abstract: This paper explores the power, potential, and challenges of studying historical political speeches using a specially constructed...

The Old Bailey Corpus: Spoken English in the 18th and 19th Centuries

Apr 19, 2012

Digital History seminar21 February 2012Magnus Huber (Giessen)The Old Bailey Corpus: Spoken English in the 18th and 19th Centuries The Old Bailey Proceedings Online is a heavily used resource by historians of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries who want to look at...