Project blog
Networking Archives is a three-year, AHRC funded research project which will merge the early modern correspondence data collected in Early Modern Letters Online with metadata from the Gale State Papers Online to create thereby the UK's largest meta-archive of curated early modern correspondence metadata.
The resulting dataset and accompanying infrastructure will allow researchers to interrogate and analyse epistolary metadata on an unprecedented scale and to pose new kinds of questions on the history of 'intelligencing' from the 16th to 18th centuries.
Co-Citation Networks from Letter Mentions: A Short Guide
13 May 2021
Figure 1: Community Detection in a large academic co-citation network. A link is drawn (as a grey line) between two authors (as coloured circles) if they are both cited in the same...
Exploring the State Papers with Word Embeddings
26 April 2021
Text and Models Digital Humanities is often concerned with creating models of text: a general name for a kind of representation of text which makes it in some way easier to interpret....
19 April 2021
Calendars of State Papers and Networking Archives Most of the quantitative research on the Networking Archives project has been using the metadata from the digitised correspondence...
Women in the State Papers Online - Through the Data
15 April 2021
You can’t search for women in the State Papers Online. There’s no way of knowing how many letters they wrote, or received, or how often they were mentioned. If you know...