/2 Just as an example of the sort of thing I think should be emerging, I like James Baker's work in catalogue studies - particularly on the BL catalogue. And archival science throws up some great work (though the institutional framing gets in the way).

I wish I had strong recommendations on this. Most of the DH stuff is pretty inward looking, and the more critical stuff coming from media studies is concerned with either content or genre rather process. As a result I just end up complaining into the ether.1/

Just to be clear, there was no intention to dismiss those fields of study, but to imply that they are doing the work of critiquing the modern online textual landscape is not right. Sorry if the tone feels combative, it is not meant to be.

Thanks for the pidgeon hole! I try and follow all those fields (at a distance). Book history in partiucular has gained a huge filip from digitisation (throwing the form into strong relief). It is the lack of a critique of image and text on screen, and the uses historians make of it, that irritate.

Historians have been ignoring all this shit since before Google. We are avoiding developing a good analysts of the relationship between text and a knowable past, fit for the the post digital world.

Definitely the same exhibition. It is good. It was great to see some of the pieces I remember making in the day.

If you want extreme sugar culture look into 17th century Holland. Sugar and salt were the main preservatives in pre modern Europe, expensive but ubiquitous.

Part 218 of 200 in historically interesting things to inspire your ttrpg dnd

Ceramic hedgehog dated to the Neolithic period found at the Hamin archaeological site near Shebotu Town in Inner Mongolia, China

It's sobering to reflect on how much work and how many people have been involved in creating those datasets. Here's MOLA's *long* write-up of the creation of the LLP map data (and that was in part enhancing data previously laboriously made by Patrick Mannix): www.locatinglondon.org/about/mappin...

Please note that for this session only, we are at a different venue - Room 828, Institute of Education, 20 Bedford Way, WC1H 0AL