Tim Hitchcock
This blog is a space for me to rant in that most seventeenth-century sense of the word; and to cut and paste the ideas and comments that don't seem to fit in more traditional forms of academic publication.
Categories used most frequently by the blogger:
Digital Humanities Digitisation methodology history Big Data Academic Writing Humanities born digital historiography mapping Microfilm Three Dimensions culturomics 18th century positivism selection bias History from below Locating London's Past book history Early Modern History
The long and the short of the eighteenth century
16 May 2019
What follows is the text for a short presentation I gave at a one day conference in late May 2019: Eighteenth Century Now: The Current State of British History. The event was organised...
Historical simulacra: breathing life into the digital dead
26 January 2019
The blog post that follows is adapted from the text of a short presentation I gave to a symposium held at the Unviersity of Sussex on the 18th of January 2019 - Subjectivity,...
Twenty five years of the REF and me.
3 April 2018
Over on Twitter there has been a recent series of posts on the #REF, and a lot of contention about its use and its worth; and its impact on the humanities in particular. The raw emotion...
5 July 2017
I was recenlty charged to say a few words at a launch event for James Baker's new monograph, The Business of Satirical Prints in Late-Georgian England. I am afraid that in the...