The Bible, Shakespeare and national dictionaries of biography

When I first started to edit BBIH I used the Concise Dictionary of National Biography and then the CD-Rom version. Both were very useful, however searching them did slow down the process of editing and checking material for inclusion. Then came the online versions of...

Alternatives to Google

For the past few months, after years of having Google’s search screen as my homepage, I have been trying an alternative search engine. I had been reading  Karen Blakeman’s blog for a while, and in this post she recommended using four other search engines,...

The digital history of mathematics

There is a joke among mathematicians that if you have an idea that no one has ever had before you should check, before publishing, that it’s not in Gauss’s papers. Gauss seems to have anticipated later findings across practically all areas of mathematics,...

Exploring the Domain Dark Archive

Bookings are open now for the first of a series of day workshops on the Domain Dark Archive, a comprehensive archive of websites from the UK web domain for the period 1996 to 2010. Our new JISC-funded AADDA project (Analytical Access to the Domain Dark Archive) is a...