Posted in civil war, digital history, england, historiography, seventeenth century, tagged digital history, dnb, henry walker, word cloud, word clouds, wordle on 23 June 2008 | 4 Comments »
A very useful post the other day from Lisa Spiro at Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, covering two things:
Using word clouds
Text comparison tools
I’ve been messing around with both over the last couple of days. Below are some thoughts on uses of word clouds.
Word clouds are a useful visual representation of the frequency with which a [...]
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I’ve had a paper accepted for the Birkbeck Early Modern Society conference in July. The full programme can be found here. My paper will be on the pamphlet war that took place between John Taylor and Henry Walker in the summer of 1641. This dispute is quite a celebrated one, not least because of the [...]
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Posted in books, britain, civil war, england, historiography, ireland, scotland, seventeenth century, tagged 1640s, 1650s, books, civil war, england, historiography, history, ireland, oliver cromwell, scotland on 5 June 2008 | No Comments »
Skimming through the Palgrave catalogue, I’ve noticed a couple of books that will be out in December that may be of interest.
The first is a collection edited by John Adamson on the English civil wars. The contributors and essays are:
- Introduction - High Roads and Blind Alleys: The English Civil war and its Historiography: John [...]
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A couple of days ago, while searching for something else, I found a pamphlet on EEBO called The Character of a Cavaliere, or a Warning Piece to Round-Heads. The woodcut on the right - which seems to have been recycled in a few pamphlets of the early 1640s - shows the eponymous cavalier. Printed in [...]
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Posted in books, britain, civil war, england, historiography, review, scotland, seventeenth century, wales, tagged 1640s, book, books, britain, charles i, civil wars, early modern, england, god's fury england's fire, historiography, history, ireland, john pym, michael braddick, oliver cromwell, religion, review, scotland, wales on 28 March 2008 | 3 Comments »
God’s Fury, England’s Fire. A New History of the English Civil Wars.
by Michael Braddick.
London: Penguin Books, 2008.
In the summer of 1642, the bookseller Nathaniel Butter [DNB] put on sale a quarto pamphlet about a strange fish caught at Woolwich. A relation of a terrible monster [EEBO] told the story of a fish shaped like a [...]
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