Institute of Historical Research Seminar in Digital History

Hamish Maxwell-Stewart (Tasmania) 'From Cradle to Antipodean Grave: Reconstructing 19th Century Criminal Lives'

Time: Tuesday, 20 March, 5:15 pm GMT+1

Venue: S261 (Senate House, second floor) and streamed live on the web at historyspot.org.uk

"From Cradle to Antipodean Grave: Reconstructing 19th Century Criminal
Lives"

Between 1803 and 1853 some 59,000 men and 13,500 women were shipped to the
Australian penal colony of Van Diemen's Land as convicts. Upon landing a [read more...]

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Institute of Historical Research Seminar in Digital History

Round Table, 'The Future of the Past'

Time: Tuesday, 20 March, 5:15 pm GMT (People from US watching the live stream keep in mind time difference is 1 hour less than usual)

Venue: S261 (Senate House, second floor) and streamed live on the web at historyspot.org.uk [read more...]

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Venue: Rm 261 (Senate House, second floor) and streamed live on the web at historyspot.org.uk (Please note this is a different room to last time)

Time: Tuesday, 6 March, 5.15 pm GMT

Dan Cohen (George Mason University)

'Finding Meaning in a Million Victorian Books'

Dan Cohen, Director of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media and an Associate Professor of History at George Mason University, will be presenting on his work on text mining Victorian literature. [read more...]

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Venue: ST276 (Stewart House, second floor) and streamed live on the web at historyspot.org.uk

Time: Tuesday, 21 February, 5.15 pm GMT

Magnus Huber (Giessen)

'The Old Bailey Corpus: Spoken English in the 18th and 19th Centuries'

Magnus Huber will be discussing the use of historical court records in the investigation of langauge change. A full abstract can be found below.

Abstract:

The 'Proceedings of the Old Bailey', London's central criminal court, were
published between 1674 and 1913 and constitute a large body of texts from [read more...]

IHR Digital History Seminar Spring Series

Tuesdays 5:15pm Senate House (various locations), University of London

21 February Magnus Huber (Giessen)
'The Old Bailey Corpus: Spoken English in the 18th and 19th Centuries'
Room ST276, Stewart House, second floor

6 March Dan Cohen (George Mason)
'Finding Meaning in a Million Victorian Books'
S261 (Senate House, second floor)

20 March Adam Farquhar(British Library), Andrew Prescott(KCL), Melissa Terras(UCL)
The Future of the Past (round table session)
S261 (Senate House, second floor) [read more...]

Institute of Historical Research Seminar in Digital History

'Digital landscapes and Archaeology' Peter Rauxloh (Museum of London Archaeology)

Venue: ST276 (Stewart House, second floor) and streamed live on the web at historyspot.org.uk

Time: Tuesday, December 6, 5.15 pm GMT

The central theme of the seminar series, is how digital technologies have enabled researchers into the past to gain new insights, new views and new perspectives on their subject which would otherwise be missed. This presentation will discuss such technologies in the context of two major projects carried out by MOLA, and will consider how digital technologies have effected the capture, manipulation and presentation of various types of data concentrating on the spatial. [read more...]

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The IHR is delighted to be able to announce details of the first term of the new IHR Digital History seminar, in association with IHR Digital.

There will be three sessions in May and June, and the second one will be on Tuesday 31 May, with Professor Richard Rodger (Edinburgh) speaking on 'Space, place and the city: a simple anti-GIS approach for historians'. [read more...]

Major EU Holocaust Research Project [read more...]