The Prime Ministers’ Rating Game: The Top Ten at No. 10

So who has been the best prime minster of Britain since 1945? A 2010 survey in The Political Quarterly [1] lists the following order:-AttleeThatcherBlairMacmillanWilsonChurchillCallaghanMajorHeathBrownDouglas-HomeEdenBased on a survey of academics, the list echoes a...

My first SPARQL queries

A few weeks ago, as mentioned in an earlier post, I attended the Linked Data course at the Oxford Digital Humanities Summer School. As part of the course we wrote (or tried to write) some SPARQL queries. SPARQL is the query language used to interrogate RDF and was...

What should the digital humanities be?

Nixon’s secretary, Rose Mary Woods, from the Gerald R. Ford Library and MuseumLast week I attended the Oxford Digital Humanities Summer School, where I was taking the course on linked data. As well as the course sessions there were plenary lectures, of which one...

Nineteenth-century print and digital resources

A recent issue of Media History has a special issue simply entitled “Ephemera”. The essays outline various justifications for the value of ephemera for historical research, covering such subjects as American humour in the late-Victorian British press, agony aunt...