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The Measure of the Archive: The Robustness of Network Analysis in Early Modern Correspondence

Network analysis of historical correspondence can be a fruitful way to address historical research questions, and has been increasingly used in historical studies over the past decade. As with many areas of quantitative humanities research, the …

Converting the British Library’s Catalogue of British and Irish Newspapers into a Public Domain Dataset: Processes and Applications

This paper describes the production of a title-level list of British, Irish, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies newspapers (1621–2019) held by the British Library, and its potential for reuse and research. The data was extracted from …

How the World Jogges: Interconnectedness Modularity and Virality in Seventeenth Century News

More Difficult from Dublin than from Dieppe’: Ireland and Britain in a European Network of Communication

Recent early modern news histories have tended to emphasise the international scope of the networks on which news travelled. New techniques, falling under the umbrella term ‘digital humanities’, allow for the examination of news as a complete …