Twenty-five years of the web

12 March 2014 marked the 25th birthday of the web. As you would expect, there was a great deal of coverage online, both in relatively formal reporting contexts (e.g. newspaper interviews with Sir Tim Berners-Lee) and in social media. The approach taken by Nominet (one...

Ursula Bloom’s First World War

In a previous post I mentioned an article which analysed the newspaper reporting of the beginning of the First World War. By happenstance I had begun to read the autobiography of the prolific writer Ursula Bloom – Youth at the Gate – which documents the beginning of...

Our first workshop

On 26 February we held a very successful half-day workshop on web archiving and research. Despite the blue skies and sun over London – something almost lost to living memory – about 40 people took part in the event. The Principal Investigator, Jane...

Reflections and Resolutions of an Independent Scholar

This post by Kimm Curran originally appeared on the History Lab Plus blog (https://historylabplus.wordpress.com/). ‘Tis the season for reflecting on where our path has led us and which map to choose for the future. For many of us this allows us to think about where we...