This blog is a space for me to rant in that most seventeenth-century sense of the word; and to cut and paste the ideas and comments that don't seem to fit in more traditional forms of academic publication.
22 May 2013
In recent years I find myself using the terms Stuff and Dead People in talks and titles more and more. And as a historian I find myself conceptualising my work as being about...
Hearing the Dead - Ten years of the Old Bailey Online
11 April 2013
The Old Bailey Homepage, 2003The Old Bailey Online has now been around for a decade - and we are celebrating. But it also seems a good moment to take stock of what went right...
4 March 2013
Between the Finch Report in the UK, and more direct moves towards a comprehensive Open Access policy for government funded research in the US, it seems we are confronted by an important...