As detailed in one of the other working papers in this series (Tools and Methods for Historical Research) digital methods for the bulk [read more...]

To address the question of what is currently available to historians, one must inevitably turn first to the Web for an overview of initiatives that are the result of recent (and not-so-recent) attempt [read more...]

Of all of the computer-related tools for historical research, database (and statistics) packages have had the most consistent use by the widest constituency of researchers using digital methods in the [read more...]

Having considered issues to do with the presentation and structuring of data, the former principally in the form of web resources and the latter as database and textual information systems, the next s [read more...]

The use of quantitative methods is an intrinsic part of historical research but has not always met with blanket favour over the years in all areas of the discipline. [read more...]

Charles Joseph Minard’s visualization of the Napoleonic Army’s advance and subsequent retreat from Russia in the 1812-13 campaign is widely cited as one of the most effective graphical depictions [read more...]

To find a remarkable implementation of a system that uses GIS as one of the component parts of its technology, one need look no further than Google Earth to illustrate an essential facet of what it is [read more...]

On a theoretical map of arts and humanities subject areas where disciplines could be positioned to try and demonstrate overlap and methodological common ground, there would be a strong case for placin [read more...]

A suggestion for an area of tools development voiced at the Methods Network Tools Development Workgroup (for a report see http://www.methodsnetwork.ac.uk/redist/pdf/wg1report.pdf) involved a method of [read more...]

Taking the idea of scholarly collaboration and interaction one stage further, an important development that is gaining ground in the context of the arts and humanities is the use of the Access Grid. [read more...]