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Call for Papers – Making ‘Big Data’ Human: Doing History in a Digital Age
Alison Richard Building, University of Cambridge, 9th September 2015 With Keynote Speaker Prof. Jane Winters, Professor of Digital History and Head of Publications, Institute of Historical Research In a digital society, it is hard to escape discussions of ‘big data’, massive amounts of information that need database and software techniques for full processing. But beyond…
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When is Research Worth it?
By Matthew Tibble Matthew is an MPhil student in Early Modern History at the University of Cambridge. He is currently researching religious counsel during the mid-Tudor period. I have been studying history for the better part of four years, yet it was only recently that I managed to fulfil the archetypal ambition of making an…
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Making ‘Big Data’ Human: Doing History in a Digital Age – Conference Programme
We are pleased to announce the final programme for the “Making ‘Big Data’ Human: Doing History in a Digital Age” conference, as set out below (updated 29/08/15). Registration for the conference is free but please sign up here if you would like to attend. Graduate Student Travel Bursaries – A number of travel bursaries are available for graduate…
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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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