Adam Crymble
@adamcrymble.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Digital Humanities and author of 'Technology and the Historian' (Illinois, 2021).
We got our first peer review back on our monograph, 'The King's Dinner'.
Really grateful for whenever colleagues engage seriously with our work and help us make it better.
Really grateful for whenever colleagues engage seriously with our work and help us make it better.
June 2, 2025 at 11:33 AM
We got our first peer review back on our monograph, 'The King's Dinner'.
Really grateful for whenever colleagues engage seriously with our work and help us make it better.
Really grateful for whenever colleagues engage seriously with our work and help us make it better.
I'm an immigrant who studies migration history.
If I were studying us right now, I’d say: both sides of the migration debate are too busy trying to win—and not listening.
The other side’s words can be frustrating. But good policy listens to both, and rises above the noise.
If I were studying us right now, I’d say: both sides of the migration debate are too busy trying to win—and not listening.
The other side’s words can be frustrating. But good policy listens to both, and rises above the noise.
May 12, 2025 at 3:40 PM
I'm an immigrant who studies migration history.
If I were studying us right now, I’d say: both sides of the migration debate are too busy trying to win—and not listening.
The other side’s words can be frustrating. But good policy listens to both, and rises above the noise.
If I were studying us right now, I’d say: both sides of the migration debate are too busy trying to win—and not listening.
The other side’s words can be frustrating. But good policy listens to both, and rises above the noise.
Book Manuscript submitted! 🎉
The King’s Dinner: family, nation, and identity on the British Table, 1760-1820 is off for a peer review at UCL press.
Thanks to my fabulous coauthors for getting us to the end. Sarah Fox, Rachel Rich, and Lisa Smith.
The King’s Dinner: family, nation, and identity on the British Table, 1760-1820 is off for a peer review at UCL press.
Thanks to my fabulous coauthors for getting us to the end. Sarah Fox, Rachel Rich, and Lisa Smith.
April 4, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Book Manuscript submitted! 🎉
The King’s Dinner: family, nation, and identity on the British Table, 1760-1820 is off for a peer review at UCL press.
Thanks to my fabulous coauthors for getting us to the end. Sarah Fox, Rachel Rich, and Lisa Smith.
The King’s Dinner: family, nation, and identity on the British Table, 1760-1820 is off for a peer review at UCL press.
Thanks to my fabulous coauthors for getting us to the end. Sarah Fox, Rachel Rich, and Lisa Smith.
My Global #DigitalHumanities students had to write recommendations for using technology to uplift the cultural sectors of low and middle-income countries. Here's the map of the countries they chose. Really interesting to read their reports. #UCLDH #London
February 5, 2025 at 9:51 AM
My Global #DigitalHumanities students had to write recommendations for using technology to uplift the cultural sectors of low and middle-income countries. Here's the map of the countries they chose. Really interesting to read their reports. #UCLDH #London
🎓An ECR with a piece of 18th c. history writing that could use feedback from 'critical friends'?
Join us at UCL on 19 Feb to get targeted feedback on your paper, and give the same to others. Full details on applying at the link below.
Please share.
adamcrymble.org/cfp-18th-cen...
Join us at UCL on 19 Feb to get targeted feedback on your paper, and give the same to others. Full details on applying at the link below.
Please share.
adamcrymble.org/cfp-18th-cen...
December 3, 2024 at 11:24 AM
🎓An ECR with a piece of 18th c. history writing that could use feedback from 'critical friends'?
Join us at UCL on 19 Feb to get targeted feedback on your paper, and give the same to others. Full details on applying at the link below.
Please share.
adamcrymble.org/cfp-18th-cen...
Join us at UCL on 19 Feb to get targeted feedback on your paper, and give the same to others. Full details on applying at the link below.
Please share.
adamcrymble.org/cfp-18th-cen...
This is still by far the best book I have written.
📔‘Technology and the Historian’
Charting the evolution of digital history practice.
www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...
📔‘Technology and the Historian’
Charting the evolution of digital history practice.
www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...
November 18, 2024 at 10:29 PM
This is still by far the best book I have written.
📔‘Technology and the Historian’
Charting the evolution of digital history practice.
www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...
📔‘Technology and the Historian’
Charting the evolution of digital history practice.
www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...
Calling Digital Humanities grads!
Survey forms.office.com/e/zKqFu4fK4D
We are researching the career paths, progression, and skills development of graduates with DH training. Please help shape the future of Digital Humanities education.
The survey will take c. 10-15 minutes to complete.
Survey forms.office.com/e/zKqFu4fK4D
We are researching the career paths, progression, and skills development of graduates with DH training. Please help shape the future of Digital Humanities education.
The survey will take c. 10-15 minutes to complete.
November 6, 2024 at 12:08 PM
Calling Digital Humanities grads!
Survey forms.office.com/e/zKqFu4fK4D
We are researching the career paths, progression, and skills development of graduates with DH training. Please help shape the future of Digital Humanities education.
The survey will take c. 10-15 minutes to complete.
Survey forms.office.com/e/zKqFu4fK4D
We are researching the career paths, progression, and skills development of graduates with DH training. Please help shape the future of Digital Humanities education.
The survey will take c. 10-15 minutes to complete.
Found my old printed copy of Programming Historian back when it was still small enough to print and bind.
Here's a lesson from Laura Turner O'Hara on finding patterns in text using Regular Expressions.
Lesson's still available online: programminghistorian.org/en/lessons/c...
Here's a lesson from Laura Turner O'Hara on finding patterns in text using Regular Expressions.
Lesson's still available online: programminghistorian.org/en/lessons/c...
September 16, 2024 at 8:41 AM
Found my old printed copy of Programming Historian back when it was still small enough to print and bind.
Here's a lesson from Laura Turner O'Hara on finding patterns in text using Regular Expressions.
Lesson's still available online: programminghistorian.org/en/lessons/c...
Here's a lesson from Laura Turner O'Hara on finding patterns in text using Regular Expressions.
Lesson's still available online: programminghistorian.org/en/lessons/c...
Ya why not? She invented the rose diagram.
September 4, 2024 at 9:57 AM
Ya why not? She invented the rose diagram.
Royal Historical Society elections are open.
Please consider voting for 🦊Dr Sarah Fox🦊. She brings a post-92, early career, and Northern voice to the council.
You're spoiled for choice for your second vote.
Please consider voting for 🦊Dr Sarah Fox🦊. She brings a post-92, early career, and Northern voice to the council.
You're spoiled for choice for your second vote.
September 3, 2024 at 9:51 AM
Royal Historical Society elections are open.
Please consider voting for 🦊Dr Sarah Fox🦊. She brings a post-92, early career, and Northern voice to the council.
You're spoiled for choice for your second vote.
Please consider voting for 🦊Dr Sarah Fox🦊. She brings a post-92, early career, and Northern voice to the council.
You're spoiled for choice for your second vote.
What is with the bleed through/phantom text on BRAND NEW article pdfs put out by Taylor and Francis? They are practically unreadable.
I've seen this 3 times this week.
I've seen this 3 times this week.
August 8, 2024 at 1:52 PM
What is with the bleed through/phantom text on BRAND NEW article pdfs put out by Taylor and Francis? They are practically unreadable.
I've seen this 3 times this week.
I've seen this 3 times this week.
Red locations are CURRENTLY discharging sewage.
Orange locations have done so in the past 48 hours.
#USSPension owns 20% of this company.
Orange locations have done so in the past 48 hours.
#USSPension owns 20% of this company.
March 30, 2024 at 8:07 AM
Red locations are CURRENTLY discharging sewage.
Orange locations have done so in the past 48 hours.
#USSPension owns 20% of this company.
Orange locations have done so in the past 48 hours.
#USSPension owns 20% of this company.
Thames Water is dumping huge volumes of sewage into our waterways.
Academics in the UK own 20% of this company through their USS pension scheme. The second largest owner.
Check out their live map of the dozens of places they're discharging sewage right this second.
www.thameswater.co.uk/edm-map
Academics in the UK own 20% of this company through their USS pension scheme. The second largest owner.
Check out their live map of the dozens of places they're discharging sewage right this second.
www.thameswater.co.uk/edm-map
March 30, 2024 at 8:05 AM
Thames Water is dumping huge volumes of sewage into our waterways.
Academics in the UK own 20% of this company through their USS pension scheme. The second largest owner.
Check out their live map of the dozens of places they're discharging sewage right this second.
www.thameswater.co.uk/edm-map
Academics in the UK own 20% of this company through their USS pension scheme. The second largest owner.
Check out their live map of the dozens of places they're discharging sewage right this second.
www.thameswater.co.uk/edm-map
📣New Open Access Article
Unintentional Migration:🍀Irish soldiers demobilised in London after major 18th- and early 19th-century wars were an important but overlooked source of unintentional Irish migrants to the capital.
#migration #history
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Unintentional Migration:🍀Irish soldiers demobilised in London after major 18th- and early 19th-century wars were an important but overlooked source of unintentional Irish migrants to the capital.
#migration #history
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
March 12, 2024 at 9:01 AM
📣New Open Access Article
Unintentional Migration:🍀Irish soldiers demobilised in London after major 18th- and early 19th-century wars were an important but overlooked source of unintentional Irish migrants to the capital.
#migration #history
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Unintentional Migration:🍀Irish soldiers demobilised in London after major 18th- and early 19th-century wars were an important but overlooked source of unintentional Irish migrants to the capital.
#migration #history
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
The Migration Museum in London is looking for (hourly paid) curators for their new community space. #migration
www.migrationmuseum.org/migration-mu...
www.migrationmuseum.org/migration-mu...
January 3, 2024 at 12:57 PM
The Migration Museum in London is looking for (hourly paid) curators for their new community space. #migration
www.migrationmuseum.org/migration-mu...
www.migrationmuseum.org/migration-mu...
Here is John Wyckham Archer's painting of the area in the mid-nineteenth century.
January 2, 2024 at 7:39 AM
Here is John Wyckham Archer's painting of the area in the mid-nineteenth century.
Jewish Credit, Debt, and Economic Integration in Eighteenth-Century London.
New study by Alex Wakelam shows Jewish widespread use of legal system to collect unpaid debts evidence they had been 'normalised' into London society, if not integrated.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
New study by Alex Wakelam shows Jewish widespread use of legal system to collect unpaid debts evidence they had been 'normalised' into London society, if not integrated.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
December 23, 2023 at 5:23 PM
Jewish Credit, Debt, and Economic Integration in Eighteenth-Century London.
New study by Alex Wakelam shows Jewish widespread use of legal system to collect unpaid debts evidence they had been 'normalised' into London society, if not integrated.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
New study by Alex Wakelam shows Jewish widespread use of legal system to collect unpaid debts evidence they had been 'normalised' into London society, if not integrated.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
We've been eating Turkey for Christmas in England since the Georgian era.
Great piece on 'Christmas at Kew' in the 1780s by my wonderful colleague Sarah Fox on our collaborative research into dining and identity:
theconversation.com/christmas-at...
Great piece on 'Christmas at Kew' in the 1780s by my wonderful colleague Sarah Fox on our collaborative research into dining and identity:
theconversation.com/christmas-at...
December 22, 2023 at 7:49 AM
We've been eating Turkey for Christmas in England since the Georgian era.
Great piece on 'Christmas at Kew' in the 1780s by my wonderful colleague Sarah Fox on our collaborative research into dining and identity:
theconversation.com/christmas-at...
Great piece on 'Christmas at Kew' in the 1780s by my wonderful colleague Sarah Fox on our collaborative research into dining and identity:
theconversation.com/christmas-at...
Really wonderful exhibit 'Unforgotten Lives' at the London Metropolitan Archives, highlighting a number of Black, Indigenous, and Asian inhabitants of London in the past five hundred years.
The web presence doesn't do it justice
www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/events/unfor...
The web presence doesn't do it justice
www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/events/unfor...
December 21, 2023 at 8:13 AM
Really wonderful exhibit 'Unforgotten Lives' at the London Metropolitan Archives, highlighting a number of Black, Indigenous, and Asian inhabitants of London in the past five hundred years.
The web presence doesn't do it justice
www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/events/unfor...
The web presence doesn't do it justice
www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/events/unfor...
A German immigrant to London named Rudolph Ackermann brought us the glorious "Microcosm of London" series, drawn collaboratively by Pugin and Rowlandson in the early 19th century at Ackermann's expense.
These views into London's spaces are a celebration of Ackermann's adopted home.
These views into London's spaces are a celebration of Ackermann's adopted home.
November 22, 2023 at 12:00 PM
A German immigrant to London named Rudolph Ackermann brought us the glorious "Microcosm of London" series, drawn collaboratively by Pugin and Rowlandson in the early 19th century at Ackermann's expense.
These views into London's spaces are a celebration of Ackermann's adopted home.
These views into London's spaces are a celebration of Ackermann's adopted home.
'Buying a German Sausage' for the King's granddaughter.
A Protestant German bridegroom was a good match for a royal woman in the early nineteenth century. Large sausages were a common visual trope about Germans in Britain.
I don't think German men put much effort into refuting the stereotype.
A Protestant German bridegroom was a good match for a royal woman in the early nineteenth century. Large sausages were a common visual trope about Germans in Britain.
I don't think German men put much effort into refuting the stereotype.
November 20, 2023 at 4:56 PM
'Buying a German Sausage' for the King's granddaughter.
A Protestant German bridegroom was a good match for a royal woman in the early nineteenth century. Large sausages were a common visual trope about Germans in Britain.
I don't think German men put much effort into refuting the stereotype.
A Protestant German bridegroom was a good match for a royal woman in the early nineteenth century. Large sausages were a common visual trope about Germans in Britain.
I don't think German men put much effort into refuting the stereotype.
It may be a summer habit, when eggs were cheaper. The King paid more from Nov to April for his eggs. 11s per hundred. 8s per hundred in summer. And we know he paid premium prices, so I'd bump it down a little for huntsmen
That's delivered though. You could save money by going to get your own eggs.
That's delivered though. You could save money by going to get your own eggs.
November 18, 2023 at 1:02 PM
It may be a summer habit, when eggs were cheaper. The King paid more from Nov to April for his eggs. 11s per hundred. 8s per hundred in summer. And we know he paid premium prices, so I'd bump it down a little for huntsmen
That's delivered though. You could save money by going to get your own eggs.
That's delivered though. You could save money by going to get your own eggs.
'Irish Peg in a Rage'
A London street veg seller depicted by Carington Bowles in the 1770s.
By the looks of things, she's challenging a Macaroni to a duel over a spilt beer. Without family connections to secure better work, many migrants needed to turn to subsistence roles such as street selling.
A London street veg seller depicted by Carington Bowles in the 1770s.
By the looks of things, she's challenging a Macaroni to a duel over a spilt beer. Without family connections to secure better work, many migrants needed to turn to subsistence roles such as street selling.
November 18, 2023 at 11:07 AM
'Irish Peg in a Rage'
A London street veg seller depicted by Carington Bowles in the 1770s.
By the looks of things, she's challenging a Macaroni to a duel over a spilt beer. Without family connections to secure better work, many migrants needed to turn to subsistence roles such as street selling.
A London street veg seller depicted by Carington Bowles in the 1770s.
By the looks of things, she's challenging a Macaroni to a duel over a spilt beer. Without family connections to secure better work, many migrants needed to turn to subsistence roles such as street selling.
'The Sauce Shop' by Rowlandson, 1776.
A view into one of London's Italian Warehouses, which sold wares from the Continent to wealthy Londoners. Great window into historical migrant culture.
Read more in Riello, 'A Taste of Italy' www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
British Museum collection.
A view into one of London's Italian Warehouses, which sold wares from the Continent to wealthy Londoners. Great window into historical migrant culture.
Read more in Riello, 'A Taste of Italy' www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
British Museum collection.
November 17, 2023 at 3:08 PM
'The Sauce Shop' by Rowlandson, 1776.
A view into one of London's Italian Warehouses, which sold wares from the Continent to wealthy Londoners. Great window into historical migrant culture.
Read more in Riello, 'A Taste of Italy' www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
British Museum collection.
A view into one of London's Italian Warehouses, which sold wares from the Continent to wealthy Londoners. Great window into historical migrant culture.
Read more in Riello, 'A Taste of Italy' www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
British Museum collection.
'A cellar in the Rookery', mid 19th century painting by John Wyckham Archer of London's infamous slum.
likely an imagined image, but indicative of what might have been in rented accommodation.
Dining and cooking implements, cleaning tools, a place to sit and lie down.
But look at those stairs.
likely an imagined image, but indicative of what might have been in rented accommodation.
Dining and cooking implements, cleaning tools, a place to sit and lie down.
But look at those stairs.
November 12, 2023 at 9:51 AM
'A cellar in the Rookery', mid 19th century painting by John Wyckham Archer of London's infamous slum.
likely an imagined image, but indicative of what might have been in rented accommodation.
Dining and cooking implements, cleaning tools, a place to sit and lie down.
But look at those stairs.
likely an imagined image, but indicative of what might have been in rented accommodation.
Dining and cooking implements, cleaning tools, a place to sit and lie down.
But look at those stairs.