Announcements and discussion of the IHR Digital History Seminar, online and in London
https://www.slideshare.net/historyspot/cordell-scientific-american 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 demonstrate how reprinting, excerpting, and...
https://www.slideshare.net/historyspot/mapping-paris Venue: John S Cohen Room 203, 2nd floor, IHR, North block, Senate House Abstract Paris is a city renowned for its artistic communities. Images spring to mind of neighbourhoods like Montmartre and Montparnasse...
Rosie Sherrington (Historic England), Alison Oram (Leeds Beckett University), Justin Bengry (Birkbeck, University of London and Leeds Beckett University) Co-hosted with the Public History and History of Sexuality seminars. Venue: Room S246, 2nd floor,...
https://www.slideshare.net/historyspot/political-meetings-mapper-with-british-library-labs-mapping-the-origins-of-british-democratic-movements-with-textmining-nlp-geoparsing-and-crowdsourcing Venue: Room SH246, 2nd floor, South block, Senate House Abstract Political Meetings Mapper (https://politicalmeetingsmapper.co.uk) was one of the two winning entries to the British Library Labs competition in 2015 ( https://labs.bl.uk/). The project...
https://www.slideshare.net/historyspot/european-or-imperial-metropolis-depictions-of-london-in-british-newspapers-18701900 Venue: John S Cohen Room, 203 Senate House Malet Street London WC1E 7HU Download a map of the central precinct with directions for getting to the University of London Senate House. Abstract...
Slide Show https://www.slideshare.net/DigiVictorian/remixing-digital-archives-the-victorian-meme-machine-ihr-digital-history-seminar-10-nov-2015 Abstract History has not been kind to Victorian jokes. While the great works of nineteenth-century art and literature have been preserved and celebrated by successive generations, even the period’s most popular...
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...
Slide Show https://www.slideshare.net/historyspot/the-challenge-of-digital-sources-in-the-web-age-common-tensions-across-three-web-histories-19942015 Abstract The sheer amount of social, cultural, and political information that is generated and, crucially, preserved every day presents new exciting opportunities to historians. A large amount of this information is...