On Friday, 24 January 2020 I sent out a tweet asking people what they thought were the key digital humanities readings and projects every historian should look at. This post summarises their responses.
On Saturday, 10 June 2017, I was invited to give the keynote at Oral History Victoria’s symposium ‘Oral history in a digital age’. This post is an edited version of that talk.
A little over a hundred years ago, the ethnographer and anthropologist Frances Densmore sat down with the Blackfoot chief, Mountain Chief. She was capturing Native American music and culture using a phonograph, a device already around 40 years old when this photograph was taken.
Today, three archivists (I was one) and three historians met to discuss what skills and resources were important when teaching a capstone history subject – not as part of a dedicated ‘digital humanities’ course, but as a necessary introduction to… Continue Reading →
All the work I’m involved in is collaborative. But day to day, working in a large institution on funded projects, sometimes under-resourced, often working toward tight deadlines, it’s rarely easy to find the time for just catching up with a cross-section… Continue Reading →
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