Category Archives: history

Recovering an ‘ephemeral’ life online

During the past two decades, the Internet and its applications have become one of the richest sources of bibliographical information available to scholars. Through email lists, web-pages, blogs, video and sound-recordings, and publications in various guises, the traces of one’s online life on line can be rich and varied.  At perhaps no other time in [...]

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Founders and Survivors: Australian Life Courses in Historical Context; 1803-1920

Founders and Survivors: Australian Life Courses in Historical Context; 1803-1920 Project report. Dr Craig Bellamy, VeRSI, June 2010 I recently attended a project workshop for the ARC funded Founders and Survivors project:  http://www.foundersandsurvivors.org Led by Professor Janet McCalman from the University of Melbourne, Associate Professor Hamish Maxwell-Stewart from the University of Tasmania, and an interdisciplary [...]

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Menzies Lecture by Professor Graeme Davison, Monash University, Australia

Professor Graeme Davidson, an Historian from Monash University in Australia, delivered the annual Menzies Lecture at King’s College London on Tuesday Night (20th October).  The lecture is one of the events from the Menzies Centre for Australian Studies at King’s College. In his lecture titled ‘Narrating the Nation’ Graeme discussed the foundation narratives that settlers [...]

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The ‘Dark Side’ of the Enlightenment

“The Alchemist in Search of the Philosopher’s Stone,” by Joseph Wright, 1771 Dan Edelstein, a Stanford French professor, has been exploring an aspect of the Age of Enlightenment that is less familiar to most, the so-called “dark side” of the enlightenment. He described the differentiating factors. “The prevailing understanding of the enlightenment is one in [...]

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A vision of Britain through time

Another fantastic resource from the JISC. The JISC-funded A Vision of Britain Through Time website launches today, giving access, often for the first time, to over two centuries’ worth of facts, figures, surveys, maps, election results and travel writing showing how 15,000 UK places have changed. The changing story of Britain’s towns and villages can [...]

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Science and Heritage Post-doctoral Fellowships Call

(This would be  a great opportunity for those interested in pursuing a career in public history. You have to be less that five years out of your PhD;  I am 6 years out. Damn! ) (The Harley Davidson ‘Heritage’. A legendary synthesis between science and heritage ) The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and [...]

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Roy Rosenzweig fellowship for innovation in digital history

(Roy Rosenzweig is the founder of the Centre for History and New Media at George Mason University in the US. The centre is progressive in both its approach to history and technological innovation. This fellowship may be of interest to you budding digital humanists out there). In 2009, George Mason University and the American Historical [...]

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    Hi, my name is Dr Craig Bellamy and I am a digital humanities analyst for the Victorian eResearch Strategic Initiative, a consortium based at the University of Melbourne, however, the views expressed in this blog are the responsibility of the author alone.

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