Using technology creatively: digital history

Using technology creatively: digital history. Corfield, P. J. & Hitchcock, T. In Becoming a Historian: An Informal Guide, pages 93–102. University of London Press, 2022.

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Whether the research project focuses upon the history of poetry or economics – whether it is about gender, discourse, diplomacy or cash flows – the way historians analyse their sources has changed substantially in the last thirty years.¹ As a large (though selective) proportion of inherited print and manuscripts have been digitized, all historians have become ‘digital’. They access many of their sources as digital files and write history while sitting in front of a screen.Furthermore, ‘born digital’ sources are increasingly important, and images that were traditionally inaccessible in museum collections are now much more available – and available for analysis in

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