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Rejection
A little while back I had an article rejected. I’m not going to say which journal it was from. I still see value in ‘blind’ part of the blind peer review game. Suffice to say the article deserved to be...
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Week 9: #AcWriMo challenge
November is #AcWriMo. If you don’t know what #AcWriMo is – or indeed know nothing of its history – I recommend you head over to Anne Tarrant‘s excellent piece about it on Guardian Higher Ed. The basic...
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49456 books
Held on a large mass storage device in the corner of my office are (among other things) 49456 books, broken down into pdfs, ocr fragments, jp2 files, and reams of metadata. Most – if not all – of this...
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Making Fun of George Augustus Frederick
Last February I attended and spoke at a conference organised and funded by the VolkswagenStiftung. The conference was hosted at the splendid Herrenhausen Palace in Hanover and it examined caricature...
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Reading comic art
It is easy to forgot sometimes that reading visual evidence is tricky. For the newcomer, the many possible interpretations available can on one hand seen overwhelming, on the other constrained by more...
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Metadata for all the British Museum Satires: part four
The project to do work with all the data in the Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires Preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum has now moved from data wrangling...
View ArticleThe hard digital history that underpins my book
In my last blog I wrote about the ‘soft’ Digital History – or digital/’digital’/Digital [hH]istory – that went into my recent book on making and selling of satirical prints in Britain during the late...
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