Topic: Digital methods
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A guide to using collections of digitised newspapers as historical sources
Learn moreThe impresso team has prepared a guide for scholars on using collections of digitised newspapers as historical sources, published on the PARTHENOS platform.
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International Oral History Workshop
Learn moreThis July 2019 workshop at C²DH was focused on digital oral history in the United States, its evolution over the past 20 years, and the prominent tools and methods currently available in the field. We used a combination of demonstrations, hands-on exercises, contributions from participants, and open discussion to facilitate an intercontinental dialogue, all aimed…
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Lecture by Jane Winters: Reflections on the past, present and future of digital archives. Recording and interview.
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Nibbling at text: identifying discourses on Europe in a large collection of historical newspapers using topic modelling
Learn moreHow can computer-assisted methods help us to solve problems that are fundamental to historical research? In a series of two blog posts we discuss a research pilot that aims to identify anti-modernist discourses on Europe in historical Swiss newspapers from the period 1939-1945.
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Lecture Tim Hitchcock – Beyond Close and Distant Reading: recording and interview
Learn moreLecture by Tim Hitchcock, Professor of Digital History at the University of Sussex, and exclusive interview for the C²DH’s ‘New Horizons’ lecture series.
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Experimenting with the use of interactive digital storytelling in academia
Learn moreOn 19 and 20 March, the C²DH hosted a two-day hands-on workshop on the use of interactive digital storytelling for academic historians with Sandra Gaudenzi, one of the leading experts in interactive storytelling and a senior lecturer at the University of Westminster.
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Integrating the digital into the academic curriculum of history – How to engage your audience
Learn moreAfter launching the Ranke.2 teaching platform on digital source criticism in autumn 2018, I assumed that its appearance and form – short colourful animations and easy-to-digest chunks of information – would soon catch the attention of lecturers and encourage them to use it in their courses. But a recent meeting with colleagues made me realise…
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“Contemporary history in the digital era” study day (Lausanne, 4 July 2018): Challenges facing history in the digital age, a new “allure of the archives”?
Learn moreThe aim of the “Contemporary history in the digital era – sources, methodologies and criticism” day (Lausanne, 4 July 2018), the result of a partnership between the Universities of Lausanne and Luxembourg, the infoclio.ch website and the International Association of Contemporary History of Europe (IACHE), was to encourage collective reflection on the role of technological…
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DHBenelux 2018 – Integrating Digital Humanities
Learn moreThe theme of this year's annual DHBenelux conference was "Integrating Digital Humanities". Max Kemman provides a review of the conference, and how the discussions focused on the integration of the practices of scholars and librarians.