Digitisation and history
Though by the 1980s it appeared that many areas of history were becoming increasingly dependent on databases and their analysis, these fell out of fashion as the cultural and linguistic turns cast doubt on the value of quantitative and empirical methods. It was only with the emergence of the concept of hypertexts and the technologies first of the CD-ROM and then the World Wide Web that interest in the potential of digitising historical resources began to rise again, assisted by initiatives such as the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE)'s 'Teaching & Learning Technology Programme' and the Arts and Humanities Research Board (AHRB)'s 'Resource Enhancement Scheme'. This has led to the provision of large quanties of online primary source material, as well as revolutionising the use of monographs though their increasing digital availability, though thus far little has changed in the way history is actually written and presented.
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- Historians:
- Floud, Roderick (interview)
Laslett, Thomas Peter Ruffell
Wrigley, Edward Anthony - Institutions:
- Arts and Humanities Research Council
Dictionary of National Biography
Royal Historical Society Bibliography - Themes:
- Archive skills and tools for historians
History and computing
Images in history
Related publications
- Peter Laslett, 'Signifying nothing : traditional history, local history, statistics and computing', History and Computing, 11 (1999), 129–33
Matthew Woollard, 'Introduction: what is history and computing? An introduction to the problem', History and Computing, 11 (1999), 1–8
