Category: 2015-2016

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Tuesday 17 May – Ryan Cordell – “The Best Mechanical Paper in the World”: Scientific American, Reprinting, and the Circulation of Popular Science in Nineteenth-Century Newspapers

Cordell scientific american from Digital History Venue: John S Cohen Room 203, 2nd floor, IHR, North block, Senate House Abstract In this talk, Ryan Cordell will draw from the Viral Texts project at Northeastern University to...

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Tuesday 2 February – Katrina Navickas – Political Meetings Mapper with British Library Labs: mapping the origins of British democratic movements with text-mining, NLP, geo-parsing and crowd-sourcing

Political Meetings Mapper with British Library Labs: mapping the origins of British democratic movements with text-mining, NLP, geo-parsing and crowd-sourcing from Digital History Venue: Room SH246, 2nd floor, South block, Senate House Abstract Political...

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Tuesday 27 October 2015 – Melodee Beals – Boutique Big Data: Reintegrating Close and Distant Reading of 19th-Century Newspapers

  Slide Show Forthcoming   Abstract From their earliest incarnations in the seventeenth-century, through their Georgian expansion into provincial and colonial markets and culminating in their late-Victorian transformation into New Journalism, British newspapers have...