Grassmoor School Visit to the University of Nottingham by Dr Larissa Allwork.
August 15, 2016
Dr Allwork is Impact Fellow at the Centre for Hidden Histories, this article originally appeared on their website 15th July 2016. On 13th June 2016, 25 year six students and their teachers from Grassmoor School in Derbyshire spent the day at the University of Nottingham learning about the First World War and being introduced to digital technology …
Five years of DHC Student Volunteers.
July 13, 2016
This week DHC says goodbye to the 2015-16 student volunteer team – some for good as they graduate (good luck guys!) some just until September when they have already agreed they will return. This was the fifth year of the volunteer Scheme and feels like something of a milestone, so I thought it would be …
DHC Volunteer Projects 2016 part three: the Slide Librarians.
June 7, 2016
Readers of Digital Dialogues may be surprised that we house a slide collection in the Digital Humanities Centre but, whilst as a society we have often been quick to abandon the analogue for digital, there are many arguments for not being so hasty. Some of these arguments may be set forth in future blogs (see …
DHC Volunteer Projects 2016: The Digital Archivists.
March 8, 2016
Readers of this blog will know that besides working shifts in the Digital Humanities Centre helping out users, the DHC volunteers also work on projects over the course of the academic year. These tend to be themed around aspects of the DHC; digitisation, digital imaging, archiving and digital marketing. They provide the volunteers with work …
Life lines and Sewing World: DHC gets a mention in two publications in one week!
November 27, 2015
Life Lines book launch. On Wednesday 18th November I was pleased to attend the launch event for the Life Lines book at Nottingham Archives. This handsome and fascinating book brings together the individual research and discoveries of Life Lines; a group of Nottinghamshire amateur historians with a special interest in World War One. The book is …
Volunteering in the DHC 2015; a Historian’s perspective by Depeeka Mistry.
November 17, 2015
History undergraduate Depeeka Mistry provides some initial impressions of the Digital Humanities Centre after a couple of months of volunteering. The Digital Humanities Centre is a hub of advanced technology and a haven for every Humanities student, from the outside it is a just a room, but inside it is a Tardis of new technology! …
Digitising the Lake District: the Maysons project by DHC Volunteer alumnus Craig Goodere.
May 11, 2015
“The Grandest Views: Models of Lakeland from Victorian Times to the Present Day” exhibition is showing at the Keswick Museum and Art Gallery from Monday 9 February to Sunday 17 May. It is based on a research project led by Dr Gary Priestnall – a senior lecturer at the University of Nottingham’s School of Geography …
DHC Personnel and Projects 2014-15
November 11, 2014
There is a lot going on in DHC at the moment and now that the new Research Associate and Student Volunteer team are in place, and the projects well underway, I thought it time to provide an update. Research Assistant. History Post Graduate Harriet Davis is this year’s DHC’s Research Associate. Previously the role primarily …
‘Lest we forget’: Life Lines’ World War I digitisation workshop in DHC.
October 13, 2014
Life Lines is a public engagement initiative by the University of Nottingham’s Lakeside Arts Centre and the Manuscripts and Special Collections (MSC) Department. It began in April 2014, and is funded by Innovations in Museum Displays whose mantra is ‘participation over interaction’. The aim of the Life Lines project is to engage Lakeside visitors by …
Digital Humanities Network: the Digital Media Lab at UNNC (May 14, 2014)
May 29, 2014
Last week Nottingham’s Digital Humanities Network held its first event, part of a series over the next few months of exploring Digital Humanities facilities across the Nottingham campuses and its partner institutions. The first of these visits was to UNNC, Nottingham’s campus at Ningbo China, where colleagues have been busy setting up the “Digital Media …
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