Digital Connections

Digital Connections: new methodologies for British history, 1500-1900 I spent an enjoyable afternoon yesterday (a distinct contrast, I might add, to the rest of my day, but that is another story) at the Digital Connections workshop at the Institute of Historical Research in London, which introduced two new resources for historical research: the federated search [...]

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Discovering UK Archives (#ukad and other things)

A round-up and some brief reflections on a number of different events and presentations I’ve attended recently: Many of this term’s Archives and Society seminars at the Institute of Historical Research have been been on particularly pertinent subjects for me, and rather gratifyingly have attracted bumper audiences (we ran out of chairs at the last [...]

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Aren’t we a friendly, sociable bunch! Reflections on #DR10

On Monday I attended an event at the British Library – Digital Researcher: Managing your networks and building your profile.  I hadn’t intended to blog about it here, since the subject seemed somewhat tangential to the focus of this blog (or at least to the focus of this blog hitherto – on which more, possibly, [...]

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Missing Links – the Enduring Web, British Library 21st July 2009

Finally getting around to posting a little something about the web archiving conference held at the British Library a couple of weeks ago. From a local archives perspective, it was particularly interesting to hear a number of presenters acknowledge the complexity and cost of implementation and use of currently available web archiving tools.  Richard Davis, [...]

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Digital Lives Conference, British Library

All UK local archives hold collections of ‘personal papers’ – diaries, correspondence, working papers and notes scribbled by dignitaries and officials, local people ‘made good’, and even the average person-in-the-street can provide a rich seam of historical content for social history.  For many local authority archive services, personal digital archives – perhaps a few floppy disks [...]

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