2004

Recasting the Past: Digital Histories

27th November 2004
The National Archives, Kew, London

Introduction

In November 2004 the AHC-UK hosted its annual one day conference in association with The Royal Historical Society. The conference theme was 'Recasting the Past: Digital Histories' with 20 papers presented by historians, graduate students, archivists and information professionals' form as far afield as Canada and South Africa as well as the UK. The conference was held at The National Archives in Kew, London.

Theme

The aim of the conference was to explore how the ever increasing number and variety of digital and electronic sources have changed the way in which history, and historical sources, are created, selected, researched, taught, written, presented and used. Even historians who do not use computer methodologies are likely to encounter sources in digital form or have their access to analogue sources mediated electronically. Whilst the digital form can transcend the constraints of time and space it brings new problems and challenges to historians and historical research.

Abstracts

The conference programme and abstracts are available here

Papers

Three papers (by Schonfeld, White and Koster) from the conference are available here

A paper by Segell is available here in PDF format

Conference Report

A conference report by Vanessa Carr published in Ariadne is available here