The first meeting of the London Digital Humanities Group will take place in the Lock-keepers Cottage, Mile End Campus, Queen Mary, University of London on Tuesday 19 January 2010 at 5pm. Tim Hitchcock (University of Hertfordshire) and Robert Shoemaker (University of Sheffield), the directors of the Old Bailey Proceedings Online, will talk about:

Connected Histories: New Methodologies for Searching Distributed Electronic Sources

This paper will introduce two new projects which will facilitate integrated searching of diverse datasets. The first, Plebeian Lives and the Making of Modern London, incorporates manuscript records from several London archives, the Old Bailey Proceedings, and historical datasets from the former AHDS, while the second, in partnership with the Institute of Historical Research, will create a federated search engine for over a dozen major electronic resources in British History, 1500-1900, including British History Online, EEBO, ECCO, the Burney Collection, and the Parliamentary Papers.

For directions to Queen Mary, and to download a map of the campus, see http://www.qmul.ac.uk/about/campus/mileend/index.html

The second meeting of the group will take place on 23 March, when the speakers will be Ian Gregory and David Cooper (both University of Lancaster), who will talk about the practical and theoretical possibilities and problems of a literary GIS, building on interdisciplinary work that combines geography and literature.

All are welcome to attend. For further information please contact s.dixon@qmul.ac.uk.

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