Category: history
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The Desmond Tutu Digital Archive
(Another ambitious project from the Centre for Computing in the Humanities here at King’s…see other CCH projects at link) The purpose of the Desmond Tutu Digital Archive project is to create a multimedia digital archive of the personal papers and recordings of Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, which will be made available over the internet free…
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Henry III Fine Rolls Project
The Henry III Fine Rolls Project is a three year enterprise commencing in April 2005, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. It aims to publish the Fine Rolls of Henry III from 1216 down to 1248. It is hoped that a second three year project will complete publication down to the end of…
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Peer review and evaluation of digital resources for the arts and humanities
The mechanisms for the evaluation and peer review of the traditional print outputs of scholarly research in the arts and humanities are well established, but no equivalent exists for assessing the value of digital resources and of the scholarly work which leads to their creation. This project proposes to establish a framework for evaluating the…
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Darwin’s letters on the Web
The AHDS (Arts and Humanities Data Service) provided some of the initial advice for this project. And boy did Charles Darwin write a lot of letters! Evolutionary theorist Charles Darwin thought the voyage of the Beagle was a “magnificent scheme” allowing him to spend time “larking round the world”. His delight at the five-year cruise…
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400 Years of Jamestown and ‘Virtual Jamestown’
It is 400 years since the British first landed in North America and none other than the Queen of England is in the United States to celebrate. And here is a site that I worked on some years ago produced by the Virginia Centre for Digital History at the University of Virginia. I did the…
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The Reading Experience Database 1450-1945
The Reading Experience Database is about 10 years old now. It seeks to gather and provide access to (from a community of scholars) evidence of the history of reading in the UK over a 500 years period (pretty ambitious huh?). It is built on some solid conceptual and scholarly ideas, and has just undergone a…