This paper describes the background and development of Check Your Privilege (https://privilege.huc.knaw.nl/), a digital privilege game designed to create awareness in the context of diversity and inclusion workshops.

In this presentation we quantify the signs of abandonment to measure the planned obsolesce of online digital humanities projects. We intend this study to be a step forward towards better preservation strategies for the planned obsolesce of online digital humanities projects.

Loyalist Migrations is a spatial history project in its early stages. It visualizes the movement of exiles and refugees who fled the United States in the aftermath of the American Revolution. The project is a partnership between the Huron University College’s Community History Centre, the Map and Data Centre at Western, and the United Empire L…[Read more]

While a range of approaches and techniques for linguistic annotation and classification are currently available, they have not been designed to handle multimodal texts with a pronounced visual dimension such as posters, webpages, or moving images (i.e., film, TV). In this paper, we present an approach for annotation and classification of…[Read more]

Images present in paper for CSDH 2020 but available here as reference.

“The Culture of Curiosity Project” studies the discourse and cultural context of early modern collections of rarities and curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700. Central to this research is the Digital Ark, a web archive of some fifty XML-encoded catalogues, inventories, and records of these collections. Our focus in phase two of this pro…[Read more]

This conference paper represents a work in progress on interface in the videogame Life Is Strange: Before the Storm’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Tempest. By observing the ways in which the user is able to make Shakespeare’s work their own, this paper argues that the failure and reimagining of the early modern work is celebrated and that in…[Read more]

What worked and what didn’t work as I pursued a History PhD later in life than would have been wise. Distilled into seven lessons.

Writing a factual or fictional dream is a difficult task as its ›otherness‹ will challenge all of our accustomed modes of narration. So the existence of established cultural and textual patterns is a welcome help. This collection of essays describes these patterns, their historical and individual modifications and their relation to the dre…[Read more]

Historians of electronics (and subjects that depend on electronics like communications, instrumentation, and computation) have access to a vast digitized archive of primary sources. The majority of these sources are freely available. Turkel and various collaborators have used web crawlers to collect millions of pages of these documents to subject…[Read more]

In this essay Queen Margaret’s curses in Richard III become part of a feminist ethics on the early modern stage. As a parrhesiast, in Foucault’s terms, Margaret speaks truth to power and claims a right of citizenship. That Margaret elicits universal revulsion from the other characters while also holding a unique, though not untroubled, pos…[Read more]

This dissertation ‘Inns and Innkeeping in North Hertfordshire: 1660-1815’ addresses the lack of a localised study on this building type and supplements the wider body of work that has been undertaken, on inn form, function and innkeeping lifestyles in other regions of England during the long eighteenth century.

Young Michelangelo Buonarroti’s experience was deeply marked by his cult of Antiquity, reverberated in the creation of artworks such as the Sleeping Cupid and the Bacchus and shared with Raffaele Riario and Jacopo Galli, his patrons during his first stay in Rome (1496-1501). The cardinal-camerlengo Raffaele Riario was an important promoter of t…[Read more]

The peculiar iconography of the winged horse surmounted by several puttos, as appears in the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili sixth woodcut, turns out to be unprecedented and enigmatic at a glance and it’s the result of the depth and complexity of the author’s concepts. Considering the iconographic details of the sculptural group as well as the text sca…[Read more]

This essay explores glass engravings by Dutch authors Anna Roemers Visscher, Maria Tesselschade
Roemers Visscher, and Anna Maria van Schurman. I place these engravings in their rich contemporary
contexts, comparing them to other art forms that were the product of female pastime. Like
embroidery, emblems, and alba amicorum, engraved glasses…[Read more]