Jack Newman
@jack-newman.com
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Antwerp, Centre for Digital Humanities & Literary Criticism. Formerly @ihr.bsky.social @memsunikent.bsky.social and @CHASE_DTP. https://www.jack-newman.com/
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Are you interested in local history? @vch-home.bsky.social @hackney-society.bsky.social @history.dulwichsociety.com
In this free workshop, you will be taught how to produce a short video from the material you have collected to share the stories you are uncovering. www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
In this free workshop, you will be taught how to produce a short video from the material you have collected to share the stories you are uncovering. www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
October 9, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Are you interested in local history? @vch-home.bsky.social @hackney-society.bsky.social @history.dulwichsociety.com
In this free workshop, you will be taught how to produce a short video from the material you have collected to share the stories you are uncovering. www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
In this free workshop, you will be taught how to produce a short video from the material you have collected to share the stories you are uncovering. www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
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1/ All of the papers in the special section of #Area I have co-edited with @ed-brookes.bsky.social are now available online. All focused on #participatory #historicalgeography they are full of practical reflections on innovative pieces of historical research. Follow this thread to find out more!
October 6, 2025 at 8:50 AM
1/ All of the papers in the special section of #Area I have co-edited with @ed-brookes.bsky.social are now available online. All focused on #participatory #historicalgeography they are full of practical reflections on innovative pieces of historical research. Follow this thread to find out more!
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Are you a postgraduate researcher trying out digital methods, tools or resources as a means of exploring historical phenomena? Consider applying for our Postgraduate Seminar Series ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2025/08/ihr-...
IHR Digital History Seminar Postgraduate Panels Call for Papers 2025-26 - Digital History Seminar
Are you a postgraduate researcher trying out digital methods, tools or resources as a means of exploring historical phenomena? Is your historical research made possible by the use of electronic tools ...
ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk
September 15, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Are you a postgraduate researcher trying out digital methods, tools or resources as a means of exploring historical phenomena? Consider applying for our Postgraduate Seminar Series ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2025/08/ihr-...
Are you a postgraduate researcher trying out digital methods, tools or resources as a means of exploring historical phenomena? Consider applying for our Postgraduate Seminar Series ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2025/08/ihr-...
IHR Digital History Seminar Postgraduate Panels Call for Papers 2025-26 - Digital History Seminar
Are you a postgraduate researcher trying out digital methods, tools or resources as a means of exploring historical phenomena? Is your historical research made possible by the use of electronic tools ...
ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk
September 15, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Are you a postgraduate researcher trying out digital methods, tools or resources as a means of exploring historical phenomena? Consider applying for our Postgraduate Seminar Series ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2025/08/ihr-...
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Join us online on 24 Sept to celebrate the 250th VCH Big Red Book!
Founded in 1899, @vchlondon.bsky.social is writing the #history of every place in #England, with partners across the country. We'll also celebrate #LocalHistory, #communityhistory & #place based history more widely. All welcome!
Founded in 1899, @vchlondon.bsky.social is writing the #history of every place in #England, with partners across the country. We'll also celebrate #LocalHistory, #communityhistory & #place based history more widely. All welcome!
September 15, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Join us online on 24 Sept to celebrate the 250th VCH Big Red Book!
Founded in 1899, @vchlondon.bsky.social is writing the #history of every place in #England, with partners across the country. We'll also celebrate #LocalHistory, #communityhistory & #place based history more widely. All welcome!
Founded in 1899, @vchlondon.bsky.social is writing the #history of every place in #England, with partners across the country. We'll also celebrate #LocalHistory, #communityhistory & #place based history more widely. All welcome!
This is a great model. Emily was kind enough to share it with our @vchlondon.bsky.social project and it has been so helpful. It allowed volunteers with no training to accurately transcribe Early Modern records. This would have been so much harder without her help
Just pushed the button on running the Egerton model for the last time before we make it public. We hit 1.1 million words in the training data and 126,000 in the verification set. This has been three years in the making, but it's a great model and really accurate. @transkribus.bsky.social
July 7, 2025 at 9:40 AM
This is a great model. Emily was kind enough to share it with our @vchlondon.bsky.social project and it has been so helpful. It allowed volunteers with no training to accurately transcribe Early Modern records. This would have been so much harder without her help
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🔊 Today at midday UK time, join the @ihr.bsky.social Digital History seminar (on Zoom) to celebrate 'Tudor Networks of Power', the winning entry for the 2024 Richard Deswarte Prize in Digital History ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2024/09/tues... #dhist
22 May 2025 – Deswarte Prize Seminar: Ruth Ahnert and Sebastian Ahnert on 'Tudor Networks of Power' - Digital History Seminar
This seminar is 12:00 pm – 13:30 pm GMT live on Zoom at https://zoom.us/j/97213610241 later posted to our YouTube channel. This seminar will celebrate the winning entry for the 2024 Richard Deswarte P...
ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk
May 22, 2025 at 7:49 AM
🔊 Today at midday UK time, join the @ihr.bsky.social Digital History seminar (on Zoom) to celebrate 'Tudor Networks of Power', the winning entry for the 2024 Richard Deswarte Prize in Digital History ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2024/09/tues... #dhist
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This looks like a super interesting PhD opportunity for an artist or historian engaged in creative practice-based research www.rca.ac.uk/study/apply-... @royalcollegeofart.bsky.social #nationalmaritimemuseum @josiekane.bsky.social
AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) Studentship: Thames Barge Stories
A fully funded Collaborative doctoral studentship between the National Maritime Museum and Royal College of Art from October 2025, under the AHRC’s Collaborative Doctoral Partnerships scheme.
www.rca.ac.uk
May 9, 2025 at 4:52 PM
This looks like a super interesting PhD opportunity for an artist or historian engaged in creative practice-based research www.rca.ac.uk/study/apply-... @royalcollegeofart.bsky.social #nationalmaritimemuseum @josiekane.bsky.social
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We're really looking forward to this: hope to see you there!
Join us next week for the @vchlondon.bsky.social lecture:
Women Making History in the Early Twentieth Century: Working for the VCH ‘Big Red Books’ with @amalexathorn.bsky.social.
Free to attend: www.history.ac.uk/events/women...
Women Making History in the Early Twentieth Century: Working for the VCH ‘Big Red Books’ with @amalexathorn.bsky.social.
Free to attend: www.history.ac.uk/events/women...
May 6, 2025 at 3:24 PM
We're really looking forward to this: hope to see you there!
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I love the juxtaposition here of @vchlondon.bsky.social #BigRedBooks with the (even bigger) volumes of Camden's Britannia (1695).
People have been writing about place for a long, long time.
For VCH online, see @bho.bsky.social, a full text of Camden here, btw: quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo2/B184....
People have been writing about place for a long, long time.
For VCH online, see @bho.bsky.social, a full text of Camden here, btw: quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo2/B184....
#VCH 'Victoria County History' is celebrating over 125 years of creating an encyclopaedic history of English counties. They’ve just announced new projects -
blog.history.ac.uk/2025/04/four... #LibraryofBham @vchlondon.bsky.social
blog.history.ac.uk/2025/04/four... #LibraryofBham @vchlondon.bsky.social
April 30, 2025 at 1:10 PM
I love the juxtaposition here of @vchlondon.bsky.social #BigRedBooks with the (even bigger) volumes of Camden's Britannia (1695).
People have been writing about place for a long, long time.
For VCH online, see @bho.bsky.social, a full text of Camden here, btw: quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo2/B184....
People have been writing about place for a long, long time.
For VCH online, see @bho.bsky.social, a full text of Camden here, btw: quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo2/B184....
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#ICYMI - #Skystorians We are delighted to announce the launch of FOUR new VCH projects across England.
We now have active projects in 22 of England's counties and two of the three historic Ridings of Yorkshire.
Welcome to the fold, #Dorset, #Kent, #Lincolnshire and #London! More in the blog:
We now have active projects in 22 of England's counties and two of the three historic Ridings of Yorkshire.
Welcome to the fold, #Dorset, #Kent, #Lincolnshire and #London! More in the blog:
Four New Victoria County History Projects - On History
This blog post was written by Ruth Slatter and Adam Chapman, Co-General Editors of the VCH. The Victoria County History (VCH), is delighted to announce that its national network of place-based history...
blog.history.ac.uk
April 30, 2025 at 1:37 PM
#ICYMI - #Skystorians We are delighted to announce the launch of FOUR new VCH projects across England.
We now have active projects in 22 of England's counties and two of the three historic Ridings of Yorkshire.
Welcome to the fold, #Dorset, #Kent, #Lincolnshire and #London! More in the blog:
We now have active projects in 22 of England's counties and two of the three historic Ridings of Yorkshire.
Welcome to the fold, #Dorset, #Kent, #Lincolnshire and #London! More in the blog:
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This is a bumper year for @vchlondon.bsky.social:
Four new projects (each breaking new ground in counties where we haven't been actively researching for around a century.
Many new books *including* our 250th Big Red Book (and that's in a county we haven't done before: Westmorland). #VCHRedBook250
Four new projects (each breaking new ground in counties where we haven't been actively researching for around a century.
Many new books *including* our 250th Big Red Book (and that's in a county we haven't done before: Westmorland). #VCHRedBook250
Despite being over 125 years old, one of our flagship projects @vchlondon.bsky.social continues to be a vibrant, growing national network of place-based historians. The network has very excitingly recently welcomed 4 new projects. Find out more in this @ihr.bsky.social blog post 👇
We are SUPER excited to share the news that the #VCH network is growing & has recently added 4 new projects in #Dorset, #Kent, #Lincolnshire & #London. These are all really exciting, collaborative projects, which you can find out more about here: blog.history.ac.uk/2025/04/four...
April 24, 2025 at 8:49 AM
This is a bumper year for @vchlondon.bsky.social:
Four new projects (each breaking new ground in counties where we haven't been actively researching for around a century.
Many new books *including* our 250th Big Red Book (and that's in a county we haven't done before: Westmorland). #VCHRedBook250
Four new projects (each breaking new ground in counties where we haven't been actively researching for around a century.
Many new books *including* our 250th Big Red Book (and that's in a county we haven't done before: Westmorland). #VCHRedBook250
Proud to be part of this. It's early days but feel very lucky to be able to do this important work.
We are SUPER excited to share the news that the #VCH network is growing & has recently added 4 new projects in #Dorset, #Kent, #Lincolnshire & #London. These are all really exciting, collaborative projects, which you can find out more about here: blog.history.ac.uk/2025/04/four...
Four New Victoria County History Projects - On History
This blog post was written by Ruth Slatter and Adam Chapman, Co-General Editors of the VCH. The Victoria County History (VCH), is delighted to announce that its national network of place-based history...
blog.history.ac.uk
April 24, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Proud to be part of this. It's early days but feel very lucky to be able to do this important work.
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Despite being over 125 years old, one of our flagship projects @vchlondon.bsky.social continues to be a vibrant, growing national network of place-based historians. The network has very excitingly recently welcomed 4 new projects. Find out more in this @ihr.bsky.social blog post 👇
We are SUPER excited to share the news that the #VCH network is growing & has recently added 4 new projects in #Dorset, #Kent, #Lincolnshire & #London. These are all really exciting, collaborative projects, which you can find out more about here: blog.history.ac.uk/2025/04/four...
Four New Victoria County History Projects - On History
This blog post was written by Ruth Slatter and Adam Chapman, Co-General Editors of the VCH. The Victoria County History (VCH), is delighted to announce that its national network of place-based history...
blog.history.ac.uk
April 24, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Despite being over 125 years old, one of our flagship projects @vchlondon.bsky.social continues to be a vibrant, growing national network of place-based historians. The network has very excitingly recently welcomed 4 new projects. Find out more in this @ihr.bsky.social blog post 👇
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Thrilled to see that this is now available online (for free)!
academic.oup.com/book/59910
@mappingthemarch.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/book/59910
@mappingthemarch.bsky.social
Literary Culture in the Medieval Welsh Marches: Networks, Places, Politics
Abstract. The Welsh Marches, a name that today refers to the borderland regions between England and Wales, are often coupled with images of idealized rusti
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April 22, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Thrilled to see that this is now available online (for free)!
academic.oup.com/book/59910
@mappingthemarch.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/book/59910
@mappingthemarch.bsky.social
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Did you know that we give away free credits to students who want to use Transkribus for their Bachelor, Master or PhD thesis?
Lean more about our Transkribus Scholarships 👇
www.transkribus.org/scholarship
Lean more about our Transkribus Scholarships 👇
www.transkribus.org/scholarship
April 22, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Did you know that we give away free credits to students who want to use Transkribus for their Bachelor, Master or PhD thesis?
Lean more about our Transkribus Scholarships 👇
www.transkribus.org/scholarship
Lean more about our Transkribus Scholarships 👇
www.transkribus.org/scholarship
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Want to know what kind of ‘non-medical’ ailments a medieval medical practitioner might have been able to treat you for? Thrilled to share some of my research in the journal of the @sshmedicine.bsky.social - open access and everything! doi.org/10.1093/shm/...
‘An experiment pervyd for a thynge y lost’: ‘Non-medical’ Charms and experimenta in Medieval Medical Manuscripts
Summary. This essay conducts a close examination of manuscripts of English provenance from the late Middle Ages which, while predominantly medical in natur
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April 15, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Want to know what kind of ‘non-medical’ ailments a medieval medical practitioner might have been able to treat you for? Thrilled to share some of my research in the journal of the @sshmedicine.bsky.social - open access and everything! doi.org/10.1093/shm/...
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Our partners - large and small - together ensure we can continue to do what we do. If you value our open access, multilingual work, please consider becoming a partner.
Deep thanks to @c2dh.uni.lu for renewing their membership to our Institutional Partnership Programme.
Their generous contribution empowers us to produce #DiamondOpenAccess resources for digital humanists around the world.
Thank you!✨
Join our global community tinyurl.com/support-PH
Their generous contribution empowers us to produce #DiamondOpenAccess resources for digital humanists around the world.
Thank you!✨
Join our global community tinyurl.com/support-PH
March 14, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Our partners - large and small - together ensure we can continue to do what we do. If you value our open access, multilingual work, please consider becoming a partner.
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Excited to run the annual @cemskcl.bsky.social colloquium on early modern war narratives in June! Check out the CFP below, please share widely, and submit an abstract!
Call for Papers for our Annual CEMS Colloquium! This year's theme is early modern war narratives. Organised by @emilyrowe1.bsky.social.
We're looking for 15-minute papers. Deadline for abstracts is 11 April. Full details below.
kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/lamen...
@kingsartshums.bsky.social
We're looking for 15-minute papers. Deadline for abstracts is 11 April. Full details below.
kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/lamen...
@kingsartshums.bsky.social
Early Modern War Narratives - Annual CEMS Colloquium — CEMS KCL Blog
Join CEMS for our annual colloquium. This year's theme is early modern war narratives. CfP deadline: 11th April.
kingsearlymodern.co.uk
March 12, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Excited to run the annual @cemskcl.bsky.social colloquium on early modern war narratives in June! Check out the CFP below, please share widely, and submit an abstract!
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#medievalsky This is a very specific question, but I'm looking for manuscripts (pre-1200) that combine some sort of time reckoning (e.g. computus) with T-O maps. I know they exist, but until now it's like searching for a needle in a haystack. For instance: digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/cca3...
St John's College MS 17 [2024 images]
View high resolution digitized images of St John's College MS 17 [2024 images] Computistical miscellany
digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
February 24, 2025 at 1:57 PM
#medievalsky This is a very specific question, but I'm looking for manuscripts (pre-1200) that combine some sort of time reckoning (e.g. computus) with T-O maps. I know they exist, but until now it's like searching for a needle in a haystack. For instance: digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/cca3...
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I find this very moving: a 10-year-old Ukrainian boy who moved to the West of Ireland 2 years ago as a refugee, speaking in Irish of his love of playing Irish music
February 21, 2025 at 4:07 PM
I find this very moving: a 10-year-old Ukrainian boy who moved to the West of Ireland 2 years ago as a refugee, speaking in Irish of his love of playing Irish music
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Applications are open for the 2025-27 Past & Present Fellowships @ihr.bsky.social are open
Applications close on 31st Jan 2025
Fellows appointed will commence on 1st Oct 2025 and be tenable for 24 months
Please share with your network
www.history.ac.uk/fellowships/...
Applications close on 31st Jan 2025
Fellows appointed will commence on 1st Oct 2025 and be tenable for 24 months
Please share with your network
www.history.ac.uk/fellowships/...
Past & Present Fellowships
Past & Present Fellowships are available for two years, and open to researchers who have completed a doctorate in history.
www.history.ac.uk
January 6, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Applications are open for the 2025-27 Past & Present Fellowships @ihr.bsky.social are open
Applications close on 31st Jan 2025
Fellows appointed will commence on 1st Oct 2025 and be tenable for 24 months
Please share with your network
www.history.ac.uk/fellowships/...
Applications close on 31st Jan 2025
Fellows appointed will commence on 1st Oct 2025 and be tenable for 24 months
Please share with your network
www.history.ac.uk/fellowships/...
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The Trust’s Study Abroad Studentship scheme is open until 7 January 2025. https://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/study-abroad-studentships
In Indonesia, @botanicalotter.bsky.social is working on ornamental plant #conservation through this scheme: https://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/study-abroad-studentships/cook
In Indonesia, @botanicalotter.bsky.social is working on ornamental plant #conservation through this scheme: https://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/study-abroad-studentships/cook
December 6, 2024 at 11:30 AM
The Trust’s Study Abroad Studentship scheme is open until 7 January 2025. https://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/study-abroad-studentships
In Indonesia, @botanicalotter.bsky.social is working on ornamental plant #conservation through this scheme: https://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/study-abroad-studentships/cook
In Indonesia, @botanicalotter.bsky.social is working on ornamental plant #conservation through this scheme: https://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/study-abroad-studentships/cook
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Gave a talk to secondary school students on 'Is an Interdisciplinary degree right for you?' Very well attended, but only open to Private School students (they organised).
If any state schools are hosting virtual events, and would like to hear more, please get in touch
If any state schools are hosting virtual events, and would like to hear more, please get in touch
November 28, 2024 at 2:48 PM
Gave a talk to secondary school students on 'Is an Interdisciplinary degree right for you?' Very well attended, but only open to Private School students (they organised).
If any state schools are hosting virtual events, and would like to hear more, please get in touch
If any state schools are hosting virtual events, and would like to hear more, please get in touch
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My latest article ‘State of the Field: Digital Legal History’. Come check it out: doi.org/10.21825/dlh... #OpenAccess #DLH #DigitalHumanities #methodology #projects
State of the Field: Digital Legal History.
This article presents a comprehensive analysis of the methodological advancements in Digital Legal History (DLH), focusing on pivotal processes such as digitisation, datafication, and the evolution of...
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November 20, 2024 at 8:38 AM
My latest article ‘State of the Field: Digital Legal History’. Come check it out: doi.org/10.21825/dlh... #OpenAccess #DLH #DigitalHumanities #methodology #projects