Ruth Byrne, Lancaster

Institute of Historical Research The History of Learning Digital History, c. 1980-2017 Adam Crymble (University of Hertfordshire) Digital History seminar series

Institute of Historical Research The History of Learning Digital History, c. 1980-2017 Adam Crymble (University of Hertfordshire) Digital History seminar series

Institute of Historical Research What do we know about the ODNB? Elite Lives at Scale Christopher N. Warren (Carnegie Mellon University) On its release in 2004, the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography was called ‘the greatest book ever,’ ‘a more enthralling read than all the novels ever entered for the Booker Prize put together.’ The Daily Mail, where these giddy pronouncements appeared, is not known for understatement, but more cautious academic researchers have long held the ODNB...

Institute of Historical Research What do we know about the ODNB? Elite Lives at Scale Christopher N. Warren (Carnegie Mellon University) On its release in 2004, the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography was called ‘the greatest book ever,’ ‘a more enthralling read than all the novels ever entered for the Booker Prize put together.’ The Daily Mail, where these giddy pronouncements appeared, is not known for understatement, but more cautious academic researchers have long held the ODNB...

Institute of Historical Research Hearing voices: Sound, space and experience at the Old Bailey Tim Hitchcock (University of Sussex) Combining 3D modelling of the Old Bailey courtroom c.1800 with textual analysis of the recorded speech of defendants tried there, this paper explores how we might reconstruct the ‘voices’ of the dead, and locate them in an understandable material context. By combining statistical analysis of one of the most extensive verbatim records we possess of speech acts...

Institute of Historical Research Hearing voices: Sound, space and experience at the Old Bailey Tim Hitchcock (University of Sussex) Combining 3D modelling of the Old Bailey courtroom c.1800 with textual analysis of the recorded speech of defendants tried there, this paper explores how we might reconstruct the ‘voices’ of the dead, and locate them in an understandable material context. By combining statistical analysis of one of the most extensive verbatim records we possess of speech acts...

Institute of Historical Research Documenting British slave-owners in the Caribbean c.1763 - c.1860 Keith McClelland (University College London) Digital History seminar series

Institute of Historical Research Documenting British slave-owners in the Caribbean c.1763 - c.1860 Keith McClelland (University College London) Digital History seminar series

Institute of Historical Research Making an Impression: Book Illustrations and their Technologies in Britain, 1780-1850 Will Finley (University of Sheffield) Digital History seminar series

Institute of Historical Research Making an Impression: Book Illustrations and their Technologies in Britain, 1780-1850 Will Finley (University of Sheffield) Digital History seminar series

Institute of Historical Research "The Best Mechanical Paper in the World": Scientific American, Reprinting, and the Circulation of Popular Science in Nineteenth-Century Newspaper Ryan Cordell In this talk, Ryan Cordell will draw from the Viral Texts project (http://viraltexts.org) at Northeastern University to demonstrate how reprinting, excerpting, and related textual practices shaped popular ideas about science and mechanics in the mid-nineteenth-century, both in the US and...

Institute of Historical Research "The Best Mechanical Paper in the World": Scientific American, Reprinting, and the Circulation of Popular Science in Nineteenth-Century Newspaper Ryan Cordell In this talk, Ryan Cordell will draw from the Viral Texts project (http://viraltexts.org) at Northeastern University to demonstrate how reprinting, excerpting, and related textual practices shaped popular ideas about science and mechanics in the mid-nineteenth-century, both in the US and...

Institute of Historical Research European or imperial metropolis? Depictions of London in British newspapers, 1870-1900 Tessa Hauswedell (University College London) Digital History seminar series

Institute of Historical Research European or imperial metropolis? Depictions of London in British newspapers, 1870-1900 Tessa Hauswedell (University College London) Digital History seminar series

Institute of Historical Research Remixing Digital Archives: The Victorian Meme Machine Bob Nicholson (Edge Hill University) 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 gags have largely been forgotten. In the popular imagination, the Victorians have long been regarded as terminally humourless; a straitlaced society who, in the words...

Institute of Historical Research Remixing Digital Archives: The Victorian Meme Machine Bob Nicholson (Edge Hill University) 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 gags have largely been forgotten. In the popular imagination, the Victorians have long been regarded as terminally humourless; a straitlaced society who, in the words...

Institute of Historical Research Boutique Big Data: Reintegrating Close and Distant Reading of 19th-Century Newspapers Dr Melodee Beals (Loughborough University) 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 relied upon scissors-and-paste journalism to meet consumer demands for the latest political...

Institute of Historical Research Boutique Big Data: Reintegrating Close and Distant Reading of 19th-Century Newspapers Dr Melodee Beals (Loughborough University) 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 relied upon scissors-and-paste journalism to meet consumer demands for the latest political...

Institute of Historical Research Virtual Rome: a digital reconstruction of the ancient city Dr Matthew Nicholls (Reading) Dr Matthew Nicholls of the Department of Classics at the University of Reading has made a detailed digital reconstruction of the city of Rome as it appeared c.AD315. In this talk he will introduce the model and discuss some of the tools and methodology involved in its creation, including questions about date, level of detail, and conjecture. He will then talk about the...

Institute of Historical Research Virtual Rome: a digital reconstruction of the ancient city Dr Matthew Nicholls (University of Reading) Dr Matthew Nicholls of the Department of Classics at the University of Reading has made a detailed digital reconstruction of the city of Rome as it appeared c.AD315. In this talk he will introduce the model and discuss some of the tools and methodology involved in its creation, including questions about date, level of detail, and conjecture. He will then...

Institute of Historical Research Text Mining the History of Medicine Sophia Ananiadou (Manchester University) I will present the results of a collaborative and interdisciplinary project between the National Centre for Text Mining (NaCTeM) and the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (CHSTM) at the University of Manchester, demonstrating the capabilities of innovative text mining tools to allow the automatic extraction of information from two historical archives: the...

Institute of Historical Research Text Mining the History of Medicine Sophia Ananiadou (Manchester University) I will present the results of a collaborative and interdisciplinary project between the National Centre for Text Mining (NaCTeM) and the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (CHSTM) at the University of Manchester, demonstrating the capabilities of innovative text mining tools to allow the automatic extraction of information from two historical archives: the...

Institute of Historical Research Lost Visions: retrieving the visual element of printed books Julia Thomas, Nicky Lloyd and Ian Harvey (Cardiff) Despite the mass digitization of books, illustrations have remained more or less invisible. As an aesthetic form, illustration is conventionally positioned at the bottom of a hierarchy that places painting and sculpture at the top. The hybridity or bimediality of illustration is also problematic, the genre having fallen between the cracks of...