Category: history
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Menzies Lecture by Professor Graeme Davison, Monash University, Australia
Professor Graeme Davidson, an Historian from Monash University in Australia, delivered the annual Menzies Lecture at King’s College London on Tuesday Night (20th October). The lecture is one of the events from the Menzies Centre for Australian Studies at King’s College. In his lecture titled ‘Narrating the Nation’ Graeme discussed the foundation narratives that settlers…
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The ‘Dark Side’ of the Enlightenment
“The Alchemist in Search of the Philosopher’s Stone,” by Joseph Wright, 1771 Dan Edelstein, a Stanford French professor, has been exploring an aspect of the Age of Enlightenment that is less familiar to most, the so-called “dark side†of the enlightenment. He described the differentiating factors. “The prevailing understanding of the enlightenment is one in…
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A vision of Britain through time
Another fantastic resource from the JISC. The JISC-funded A Vision of Britain Through Time website launches today, giving access, often for the first time, to over two centuries’ worth of facts, figures, surveys, maps, election results and travel writing showing how 15,000 UK places have changed. The changing story of Britain’s towns and villages can…
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Roy Rosenzweig fellowship for innovation in digital history
(Roy Rosenzweig is the founder of the Centre for History and New Media at George Mason University in the US. The centre is progressive in both its approach to history and technological innovation. This fellowship may be of interest to you budding digital humanists out there). In 2009, George Mason University and the American Historical…
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The Virtual Museum of the Pacific: A Semantic Web-based Content Management System
The Virtual Museum of the Pacific (VMP) is a Rich Internet Application with a Web Services architecture used to manage and navigate 400 objects from the Australian Museum’s (http://www.austmus.gov.au/) Pacific Island collections. This project tests a new means of facilitating access for Indigenous people and researchers to museum-based digital collections whose artefacts are physically distributed…
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Redmond Barry 1854 fellowship
The University of Melbourne solicits proposals for its Redmond Barry 1854 fellowship. The fellowship facilitates research by enabling scholars to access the collections of the State Library of Victoria and the University of Melbourne. This programme aims to: promote the library and its support for scholarly activity and research; support research that would benefit from…