Category: history
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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…
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Genevan Sex Crimes Database
Thanks to Alistair Dunning for the Link Exhibit is a tool from MIT. It “enables web site authors to create dynamic exhibits of their collections. The collections maybe browsed using facetted browsing. Assorted views of the collections are provided including tiles, maps, etc”. It allows anyone to put tabular data online with astonishing ease. http://simile.mit.edu/wiki/Exhibit…
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US Presidential Speeches Tag Cloud
I will have to think about this one and get back to you. I like it a lot, but I have to think about its accuracy; the process is only half the story (and some academics build their career on advancing only half the story) (link)
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NSW Migration Heritage Online Projects
The Migration Heritage Centre at the Powerhouse Museum is a New South Wales Government initiative supported by the Community Relations Commission. www.migrationheritage.nsw.gov.au They do some excellent online oral history work. See some of the sites that they launched last year (thanks to Annette Loudon Website Coordinator). Belongings http://www.belongings.com.au A Place For The Friendless Female: Sydney’s…
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Darwin’s Missing Notes Go Online
A MISSING notebook clutched by British naturalist Charles Darwin, who circumnavigated the globe, returned to Britain and demolished the Victorian hubris that humans stood alone as the pinnacle of creation, was published for the first time yesterday.The original notebook, which documents Darwin’s observations throughout his five-year voyage to the Amazon, Patagonia and the Pacific aboard…