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Community Archiving in Egypt: a new Public History Partnership

The C²DH is thrilled to announce a new partnership between the project “Public History as a New Citizen Science of the Past” (PHACS) and Sard Center for History and Social Research (Shubra’s Archive) on community archives and practices of public history in Cairo (Egypt) and Shubra.

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CfP: SHOT 2025 Annual Meeting

Hosted by the C²DH at the Belval Campus of the University of Luxembourg from 9 to 11 October, the 2025 SHOT (Society for the History of Technology) Annual Meeting is organised under the theme ‘Technologies of Migration – Migrating Technologies’.

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The First Digital Love Letters: A Hidden Story of Code

In 1952, the Ferranti Mark I, one of the world’s first computers at the University of Manchester, did something extraordinary—it generated a series of randomly assembled love letters. These were no ordinary declarations of passion; they were written entirely by an algorithm.

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Ferdaous Affan: Unraveling colonial propaganda with digital tools

With a diverse background in data and knowledge engineering, plus using digitisation and AI in news archives, PhD candidate Ferdaous Affan aims to shed new light on the historical impact of colonial discourse. She shares more on the challenges of researching propaganda plus the enriching interactions she has had at the C²DH.

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Public History ACTIVE Principles

Like those components of a medicine that produce the desired effect, our active principles largely affect the ways in which we practice and reflect upon public history. They provide a summary of what the Public History and Outreach (PHO) Research Group at the C²DH stands for and what defines its work across projects and disciplines.

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