Category: Archive

  • Web Archives as Big Data: experimenting with the internet as a historical source

    Web Archives as Big Data: experimenting with the internet as a historical source

    by Marta Musso On the 3rd of December, the Institute for Historical Research hosted a conference on the challenges and opportunities that the digital world offers to researchers in the humanities. As we live in the middle of the digital revolution, we don’t have full perception of the massive changes that the switch to digital…

  • Growing Up Without a Beard: Child Kings and Facial Hair

    Growing Up Without a Beard: Child Kings and Facial Hair

    By Emily Ward From discussions about how to decorate it for Christmas, to a phenomenon called ‘peak beard’, and even an entire forthcoming Somerset House exhibition, one thing is certain – beards are having their moment in the media spotlight. Facial hair has been linked with a range of characteristics across a number of studies, including…

  • Becoming a Lord in Three Easy Steps

    Becoming a Lord in Three Easy Steps

    By Fraser McNair Social mobility is not new. Any medieval society was filled with as many ambitious people looking to make their way in the world as any modern one. What is more difficult to see, in many cases, is how a wannabe nobleman turned their dreams into reality…

  • Cambridge University Digital History Seminar: lesson 1, “The digital dark age?”

    Cambridge University Digital History Seminar: lesson 1, “The digital dark age?”

    The Cambridge University Digital History Seminar has decided to make available online all the material discussed in class. We start from the first lesson, an introduction to digital sources by Marta Musso. The seminar was held at the History Faculty on the 28th of October, 2014.  The PDF with notes can be downloaded and used…

  • 2.0 History in Brazil

    2.0 History in Brazil

    by Renata Duran, Londrina State University According to the ICT in Education survey (CGI.br, 2013) conducted by the Internet Steering Committee in Brazil (CGI.br), through its Regional Centre of Studies for the Development of the Information Society (cetic.br), “almost all urban public schools have computers (99%) […].