History and computing
Developments in ICT have affected the practice of history in different ways since the 1960s. Cliometric and quantitative history were made possible by the capacity of the new technology to process large amounts of data, though theoretical questions remained as to the validity of these kind of approaches. Since then all historians have been affected by the ubiquitousness of the PC, but a split remains between those happy to use generic word-processing/database software and others interested in developing a historical information science.
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- Historians:
- Floud, Roderick – interview
Laslett, Thomas Peter Ruffell
Wrigley, Edward Anthony - Institutions:
- Arts and Humanities Research Council
Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure
Dictionary of National Biography - Themes:
- Archive skills and tools for historians
Cliometric history
Digitisation and history
Images in history
Quantitative 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
