Deadline approaching: considering attending #AHA24 in San Francisco? December 15 is the last day for preregistration pricing. Visit our website to learn more about registration and hotels, access the program, and more. @histodons#histodonshttps://www.historians.org/annual-meeting
🎁 Looking for an original present for anybody curious to learn about the fascinating history of chess & its remarkable impact on culture, art, science, education, social advancement, prison reform and more?
FILM PAGE: ideasroadshow.com/chess/
BOOK PAGE: ideasroadshow.com/chessays/
On this day in 1833, Eliza Baldwin died. See this and other gravestone inscriptions from Templemartin, Co. Cork, in the Journals: https://tinyurl.com/baldwin1833
There is a paper story to this painting from 1672 waiting to be told. Meet Jan Berckheyde's "A Notary in His Office" highlighted in 5 steps - a thread for friends of #paperhistory and #mediahistory of #EarlyModernEurope, and for #histodons in general. Expect a view into the inky paper states of Europe, a paper age dealing also with waste papers, fresh paper sheets waiting to be used, a high paper demand, and some document bags literally full of used papers. Let's roll @histodons
@histodons Wherever paper was used, waste paper could also be found. Here, in detail no. 5 paper leftovers, waste papers, are lying on the floor next to a used quill. The presence of fresh unused papers, written upon "used" papers, and waste papers, in one scene remind #histodons of the material life of hand-made paper in early modern Europe: it was produced, it was used, and it was recycled - often to fresh 'new' paper. #EarlyModernEurope was a paper age with #recycling rhythms.
Congratulations to CBI Sr. Research Fellow William Aspray who just published Understanding Information History: The Case of America in 1920 (Springer).
By the way @histodons , its probably old news for people who are already engaging with this, but I just learned about two fascinating pioneers of humanities computing, Andrew and Kathleen Booth at Birkbeck College, London, who apparently worked on #NLP (specifically machine translation, but together with students/collabs. on other things) starting in the early 50s (perhaps earlier).
...and I've stumbled across so many great quotes now which could just as well have been written today and not in, like, 1970. I really feel the urge to start sharing some of them, because that groundhog-day experience I keep having is as entertaining as it is lowkey frustrating lol.😅 Also saw it's topical for some people so maybe it'd even be useful?!
Vern L. Bullough, 1967, "The Computer and the Historian: Some Tentative Beginnings" in: Computers and the Humanities, Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 61-64. https://www.jstor.org/stable/30199211
@histodons This is a great and interesting read for the history of digital hisory in general, lots more quotable bits. Also one of the early and few genuine historians mentioning simulations, albeit a bit misguiding as "predictive history".