Historical Methods for the 21st Century

Saturday, 15th November 2008
The National Archives, Kew, London

The AHC-UK in association with The National Archives, Institute for Historical Research and the Higher Education Academy Subject Centre for History, Classics and Archaeology are preparing a book on Historical Methods for the 21st Century to be published in print and online in spring 2009.

The work aims to fill a gap in the literature between general introductions to the use of ICT in history and specialist advanced literature on particular techniques. In turn it is hoped that this will help address the gap in the use of ICT in history teaching and research in the UK.

The 15th November will see various authors present outliones of their chapters alongside written drafts. Two sessions of discussions aim to identify links, ares of overlap and gaps that need to be filled.

The topics being covered are listed below and we intend to have outlines of the majority of these:

• The role of theory
• Catgories of historical analysis
• Searching The National Archives
• Using Digital Technology
• Organising Data
• Using Data Collections
• Web 2.0 Technologies
• Prosopography
• Population Studies
• GIS
• Local Studies
• Sound Archives
• Visual Archives
• Text Mining
• Data Mining
• Statistical Analysis

Your input to this process is very valuable in helping us shape the content and form of the work. Attendance is free, coffee and lunch will be provided, but participants must register in advance, no later than Wed 12th November by emailing i.anderson@hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk

10.30-11.00 Coffee

11.00-12.30 21st Century Methods Session 1

12.30-1.30 Lunch

1.30-3.00 21st Century Methods Session 2

3.00-3.30 Coffee

3.30-4.30 AHC-UK AGM