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	<description>A blog (mostly) about early modern history</description>
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		<title>Things noted</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:45:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Early modern:

Fernando Cervantes in the TLS reviews a range of books on early modern Spain.
Phil Withington, &#8216;Citizens, Soldiers and Urban Culture in Restoration England&#8217;, English Historical Review (2008).
John Morrill reviews Patrick Little (ed.), The Cromwellian Protectorate (2007), a great deal of which can be read on limited preview on Google Books.
Imago Urbis: Giusepe Vasi&#8217;s Grand [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Comparator</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:13:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[digital history]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I posted previously about being inspired by Digital Scholarship in the Humanities to mess about with word clouds. The same post also gave me the idea to try some text comparison tools.
TAPoR&#8217;s Comparator tool allows you to type in the URLs for two different pieces of text. It then compares the two, producing a word [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Word clouds</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 20:21:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[henry walker]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Great ideas that originated in the pub - part 96</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2008 09:09:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[pope]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
I&#8217;m reading Tim Harris&#8217;s wonderful Restoration at the moment, and I just came across a lovely anecdote of some students in Edinburgh plotting to burn an effigy of the pope after a night down the pub.1
There happened to be hanging up in the pub a copper plate showing an engraving of the pope being burned [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pamphlet wars</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:28:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
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