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What is Digital Humanities? Well, it’s personal
What is Digital Humanities? “The stuff humanities people do when they get a computer.” - Daniel Hooper (whatisdigitalhumanities.com) If you ever mention the term “digital humanities” it won’t be long...
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Hist 2401E Thursday Tutorial – 9/19/13
Hello History 2401E Thursday tutorial! Each Sunday and I am going to write a brief post with information to supplement our Thursday tutorial. This information is completely optional, so if you decide...
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Pulmone Kimchi Museum – ivrytwr video
While this video is nearly a year old now, visiting the Kimchi Museum in Seoul was a great way to end our video series exploring the cultural heritage sites and museums of Korea. This chapter of...
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Hist 2401E – 10/10/13
Podcast: Download: hist-2401e-101013.mp3 Links: As we can see in the readings this week, each ‘historian’ who writes about Arthur has his own agenda. How Arthur is depicted generally says more about...
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Hist 2401E – 10/24/2013
Podcast: Download: hist-2401e-102313.mp3 Links: Free Online Books From the Metropolitan Museum of Art – The MET has recently put a large number of its medieval manuscripts online, this article links...
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Podcasting and history – reflections from a casual podcaster
Since my childhood I’ve had a deep appreciation and love for radio. My youth was filled with car trips listening to CBC radio, nights hiding under blankets listening covertly to strange night-time...
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Collaboration, not crowd-sourcing: Digital Doors Open – the London Roundhouse
For my first digital history assignment I have chosen to build a Facebook page that functions as an interactive timeline for the London Roundhouse, an historic building at 240 Waterloo St. in thought...
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Experiments in using digital research methods in my workflow
Since I started taking William J. Turkel’s Digital Research Methods course I’ve been trying to find ways to use these methods in my workflow. The more I’m exposed to these research methods, the more...
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HIST 2401E – 21/11/13 Feudalism: the other f-word
This week we’re discussing a controversial topic among medievalists – feudalism. In my undergraduate studies I had a professor who threatened to fail anyone who used what he referred to as the...
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An introduction to maker culture for historians
The term “maker” is rapidly approaching ubiquity with everyone from universities, to schools, to libraries rushing to build their own makerspaces. Despite increasing institutional support for...
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