Cultural Heritage Infrastructures in Digital Humanities: a review

Cultural Heritage Infrastructures in Digital Humanities. Agiatis Benardou, Erik Champion, Costis Dallas and Lorna M. Hughes (eds). Routledge, 2017. [This review first appeared in the LSE Review of Books.] The digital turn in humanities research over the last three decades has enabled the asking of new research questions: the availability of fresh tools and techniques,… Read More

The silence of the archive: a review

[A review that appeared first in the LSE Review of Books.] David Thomas, Simon Fowler and Valerie Johnson. The Silence of the Archive. Facet, 2017. In the past two to three decades, the archival profession has been caught between two currents of cultural and technological change: simultaneous, largely unrelated, both apparently inexorable. Largely confined to… Read More