Do historians use digital tools in the same way? This question will be central in this blog. As historians of medicine, working with digitised medical journals and digital tools, with an interest in the development of discourses, concepts and ideas, we took the opportunity to compare our research methods. In her PhD, Eva Andersen (University … Continued
DHBenelux 2019 was held at the University of Liège (Belgium), and it was the first time I attended this conference. As someone working in computational text analysis for historical and literary studies, I was excited to see quite a few text-related projects. Why do humanities researchers turn to text as social and cultural data? Edward … Continued
The way historians organise and carry out their research has changed over the past two decades. We no longer (only) spend time in archives, but consult archival material more and more via online databases and repositories from our office or the comfort of our living room. The repositories are managed by libraries, universities, research institutions … Continued