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  • New article: On digital contemporary history

    A little article of mine has just appeared in the Danish historical journal Temp, based on a lecture given in Copenhagen to the Danish Assocation for Research in Contemporary History in January 2016. It suggests that there has been a relative lack of digitally enabled historical research on the recent past, when compared to earlier…

  • Welcoming the new Journal of Open Humanities Data

    After some months in the making, I am delighted to be able to draw attention to the new Journal of Open Humanities Data. I’m particularly pleased to be a member of the editorial board. Fully peer-reviewed, JOHD carries “publications describing humanities data or techniques with high potential for reuse.” The journal accepts two kinds of…

  • Method in the web archive for the arts and humanities: a conference report

    [In early December 2014 the Big UK Domain Data for the Arts and Humanities project held an excellent day conference on the theme of web archives as big data. A good part of the day was taken up with short presentations from the project’s bursary holders, arts and humanities scholars all, reflecting both on their…

  • Book review: The Future of Scholarly Communication (Shorley and Jubb)

    [This review appeared in the 24 July issue of Research Fortnight, and is reposted here by kind permission. For subscribers, it is also available here.] Perhaps the one thing on which all the contributors to this volume could agree is that scholarly communication is changing, and quickly. As such, it is a brave publisher that…

  • On historians’ electronic ‘papers’

    [This post was written for inclusion in the blog of the Institute of Historical Research’s winter conference on History and Biography] I should say straight away that I am neither an archivist, nor a specialist in digital preservation (in its strict sense.) But I am an historian, and professionally interested in the impact of the…