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, england, seventeenth century, tagged 1678, cereologists, crop circle, crop circles, devil, e.p. thompson, history, moral economy, mowing-devil, pamphlet, popular politics, popular religion, seventeenth century on 7 June 2008 | 3 Comments »
The Mowing-Devil is a quarto pamphlet printed in 1678.1 It tells the story of a farmer whose field of oats was destroyed by the devil, after the farmer rejected the price asked by a mower and said that the devil could mow it instead.
The pamphlet is often prayed in aid by crop circle enthusiasts as [...]
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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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Posted in england, historiography, seventeenth century, tagged history, seventeenth century, england, bulstrode whitelocke, oliver cromwell, lord falconer, lord chancellor, speech, 1654, 1650s, commonwealth, christina, sweden, treaty on 5 June 2008 | No Comments »
Regular readers will probably have picked up that my day job is as a civil servant in one of the big UK Government departments. I deliberately don’t post about anything work-related - this is a blog about history, after all - but I figure I’m on safe ground with this post.
Officials working on policy often [...]
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