Developing guidelines for the citation of audio-visual material

You may be interested to hear the latest update from the AVcitation project. Have you ever wondered how to cite a TV advert? Or extra features on a DVD? What about a scene from a director’s cut feature film or amateur film footage held in an archive? Or how do you...

2012 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 4,329 films were submitted to the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. This blog had 24,000 views in 2012. If each view were a film, this blog would power 6 Film...

Text mining – articles, courses and podcasts I

  The journal Victorian Studies has published a series of articles under the title Forum on evidence and interprestation in the digital age. [1] Andrew Stauffer, in his introduction, quotes a comment from the Daily News, 1869…. Must we not pity the historians of...

Digital Milton

On 13th November the IHR’s annual Creighton Lecture will be given by Professor Quentin Skinner, on Milton as a theorist of liberty. Quentin Skinner is well known as a historian of political thought and has written extensively on major figures such as Hobbes and...

InScribe: a new way to learn Palaeography

Welcome to InScribe: Palaeography Learning Materials! This new project, based at the School of Advanced Study (University of London), was devised by Prof Michelle Brown (who left the School in July) and Dr Jane Winters. InScribe is a new online resource (VLE) to...