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Newnham College Cambridge hosts Wikipedia edit-a-thon to mark International Women’s Day 2017
Know something about an eminent woman? Think it should be shared? Newnham College Cambridge are marking International Women’s Day 2017 by improving the gender balance of Wikipedia, and they’re looking for contributors.
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Blogging for Researchers: training sessions with Cambridge Digital Humanities
Doing History in Public has teamed up with Cambridge Digital Humanities to give two training sessions on blogging for researchers as part of this term’s Learning Programme. The training sessions are open to PhD students and staff at the University of Cambridge. Find out about how to use blogging in your research, the benefits and…
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Public History in the Digital Sphere: /r/AskHistorians
By Joe Rachman What sparked the craze for martial arts, particularly kung fu, in 1970s America? Why did some Serbs commit acts of genocide in the late twentieth century despite Serbs themselves having been victims of genocide during World War Two? What started the Opium Wars? Did Zarathustra, the supposed founder of Zoroastrianism, actually exist?…
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Top 3 Digital Tools for Doing History
By Evelyn Strope (@emstrope) As we all continue to navigate an increasingly virtual world during the coronavirus pandemic, I thought I would share a list of my favorite digital tools that I use to organize sources, annotate readings, manage citations, draft chapters, and conceptualize the ‘big picture’ of the PhD, in the hopes that they…
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Courtroom to Classroom: Teaching with Old Bailey Online
By Dr. Stephanie Brown (Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/stephemmabrown.bsky.social) Old Bailey Online is a vast and searchable digital collection of nearly 200,000 trial accounts from London’s central criminal court from 1674 to 1913. A pioneer of digital humanities, Old Bailey Online also holds remarkable pedagogical value. In my teaching, I have found it to be an unparalleled resource…
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