Tuesday 1 December 2026 – Richard Deswarte Prize Seminar – Alan Galey, Ellen Forget, Brendan Allen, and Raffaele Viglianti on ‘ApertureScience.Com: A Critical Edition’

This seminar is 14:00 pm – 15:30 pm GMT live on Zoom at https://zoom.us/j/91033967047, later posted to our YouTube channel.

Session chair: James Baker

In this special seminar, Alan Galey, Ellen Forget, Brendan Allen, and Raffaele Viglianti will join the IHR Digital History Seminar to discuss their prize winning entry: ‘ApertureScience.Com: A Critical Edition’, Scholarly Editing, 42 (2025).

Richard Deswarte (1965-2021) was one of the founding convenors of the Digital History seminar at the Institute of Historical Research (IHR), University of London, an advocate for the value and importance of digital history, and an irreplaceable member of the community of digital historians in the UK and beyond.

This annual prize, established in his memory, celebrates the best of digital history internationally. It offers an award of £500 for the best output in digital history published in the 17 months prior to the submission deadline. More information on the prize is available here.