James Baker
I may not have been brought up with an artist-engraver such as Isaac Cruikshank (1764–1811) for a father, but between Beano, Dandy, and the occasional Giles annual I was as a boy surrounded by cartoons. Today in my research continues this passion.
Cradled in Caricature is then a place for my thoughts on primarily – but not exclusively – history, caricature, visual culture, and the digital humanities, with posts ranging from discussions of talks, to snippets of ongoing research or summaries of my published work.
Categories used most frequently by the blogger:
History DHums Research Caricature digital history Writing Digital Humanities Conferences Public talk open access Teaching Data dhist satire DH software Cruikshank satirical prints georgian british museum
5 April 2023
tl;dr – we must do everything we can to ensure that generative AI doesn’t win. Back in 2019 we had an idea. We wanted to gather together catalogue-related professionals at UK and...
Leaving, Arriving, Building: one year at Soton DH
12 August 2022
This is more of a personal blog than I typically write. Tomorrow I start two (and a bit) weeks of annual leave, and I wanted to do something to mark a real point of transition for me:...
10 June 2022
Last week at Digital Humanities Benelux 2022, I had the pleasure of working with colleagues from the Digital Humanities Climate Coalition and Historians for Future to run a workshop...
6 May 2021
In September 2001 I arrived at the University of Southampton to study a degree in History. In September 2021 I’ll be returning to Southampton to take up the post of Director of...