I don't know what is worse in this story: -The proposed destruction of originals -The ridiculous assumption that digital files will be safe+accessible "forever" -The antiquated view to preserve "paper copies of noteworthy wills [of] historical importance" (define "noteworthy")

Starting now! The first postgrad panel of 2024 for IHR Digital History Seminar! Hamilton, Data Archaeology and Demonstrations in Revolutionary Paris 👇👇 ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2023/07/tuesda…

Excited to be back coordinating this module & teaching on it, alongside the excellent Alexandra Ortolja-Baird! It's a pleasure to work with our students and to see what they do when they're in charge - it gives them huge freedom, and they flourish with it!

Come join the IHR Digital History Seminar online reading group on Tuesday 6 February at 13.00 GMT to discuss Jo Guldi's "Dangerous Art of Text Mining". All welcome, details here 👇 ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2023/07/tuesda…

Today at Univ. Ports History we created cabinets of curiosity. Nothing more exhausting or intellectually stimulating than classification: where to put the carved nautilus shell, or the Roman glass ensconced in mortar? WHAT ABOUT THE OSTRICH EGG? Learn by doing. Despair by categorising.

Starting now! IHR Digital History Seminar discussion group:

The 2024 Richard Deswarte Prize in Digital History is now open for submissions of works published since January 2023. Nominate your work or a work that you 💜. Deadline 31 May. Full details here: ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2021/12/the-...

Help please! Any good image suggestions for post-war European anti-consumerism? Would love something about coca-cola-colonisé but that seems a dead end...

Come study with us! 2 x *Fully Funded* #PhD Studentships. 'From Sail to Steam, Carbon to Green: Empowering Port Communities in the Global South' One lucky student will research the port of Callao, #Peru, the other #Macau LRF Heritage & Education Centre Centre for Port Cities and Maritime Cultures port.ac.uk/study/postgrad…

Today, some of our L6 students did a VR tour of the British Museum as part of their option, 'Collecting the World: From Cabinets of Curiosity to the British Museum'. Thank you, Faculty of CCI, UoP, for hosting the session. We all had a great time! UoP_SASHPL UoP Humanities and Social Sciences University of Portsmouth

Tomorrow at 5.30 GMT (Zoom) the brilliant Matti La Mela will present 'Accessing nature before “allemansrätten”? Using computational text analysis to study a tradition before it was named' for IHR Digital History Seminar. Join us here👇#dhist ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2023/07/tuesda…

Issue No 177: Read about Dalrymple's charts and views of the coasts of China and stories of private collectors in national collections..

Next Tuesday 19 June marks the final IHR Digital History Seminar seminar for the year. Nik Ribianszky will present “The Continuing Development of Generations of Freedom: The Natchez Database of Free People of Color, 1779-1865.” Join online at 17.30 GMT 👇#dhist ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2023/07/tuesda…

UK universities valued more than institutions like parliament and BBC, finds survey: theguardian.com/education/arti…

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The IHR Digital History Seminar seminar might be over for 23-34 but you can still access all the recorded presentations via our Youtube channel 👇 Look out for next year's line-up coming out soon! #dhist #digitalhistory youtube.com/@ihrdigitalhis…

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Digital History CFP! Please consider submitting a paper for our postgrad panels for the IHR digital history seminar! IHR Digital History Seminar

🇬🇧 Today marks a very dark day for fundamental human rights in the UK. Daniel Shaw and his co-defendants have been sentenced to spend 4 & 5 years in a prison cell for planning a peaceful protest. This decision is beyond comprehension. Full statement here: unece.org/sites/default/…

Last day to submit for our Digital History Postgraduate panels!