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History in the Public Eye
By Amy Schaffman Amy is a Modern European History MPhil student in the Faculty of History. She is currently researching WWII Anglo-American relations through the lens of the overseas evacuation of children. Public history occupies a strange place within the field of history. Its non-academic components are many and varied: museums, memorials, television programs, popular…
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To ask or not to ask: that is the question
By Emily Ward, @1066unicorn Palms sweating, mouth dry, heart pounding in my chest, my thoughts racing. I realise that I’m going to do it. Tentatively I gather my courage, swallow down the fear and start to raise my hand. Hand up, there’s no going back; I’m spotted and heads turn my way. Eyes on me,…
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The British Library: Ivory Tower?
By Fred Smith @Fred_E_Smith The British Library is overflowing with young, frappuccino-supping undergraduates more interested in checking Facebook and watching Netflix than carrying out ‘serious’ research. At least this is the impression one might take from reading an article in The Times newspaper last month.[1] Several prominent academics, including former professor of Renaissance literature at the University…
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Karl Marx 2.0
By Niccolò Serri Niccolò Serri is a PhD student in Economic and Social History at the University of Cambridge A team based at the International Institute of Social History (IISH) in Amsterdam has completed the digitisation of the Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels papers collection. Despite the almost indecipherable hand-writing of the father of modern socialism,…
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Reflections on Making ‘Big Data’ Human
By Emily Ward @1066unicorn and Carys Brown @HistoryCarys If there was one thing that the Making Big Data Human conference made clear, it was that ‘Big Data’, and indeed digital methodologies in general, provide some very exciting opportunities to advance historical research. From the ambitious and wide-ranging National Archives’ Traces Through Time project, which looks…
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