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Blogs written in the 2011 to 2014 phase of Soton DH

Greening the Digital Humanities

Greening the Digital Humanities, a community workshop exploring the environmental impacts and sustainability of Digital Humanities research, was held on November the 10th 2021. It was jointly organised by the University of Edinburgh Centre for Data, Culture & Society, Sussex Humanities Lab, University of Southampton Digital Humanities, and Alan Turing Institute Data Science and Humanities Special Interest Group. Continue reading →

Southampton DH is back!

I mean, it never went away. There has been loads of great work going on since 2015. But this Autumn a new phase of Southampton Digital Humanities has launched: James Baker has arrived as Director of Digital Humanities, we've opened our new Digital Humanities Hub, and we've filled in with kit (thanks AHRC!). And we'll soon have a new website. So watch this space. And then that space (because we'll be archiving this space). Continue reading →

Lights Camera Action

Taplow House, a housing block within the notorious Aylesbury estate, southeast London, named after Taeppa’s Low, a 7th Century Anglo-Saxon burial mound 29 miles west along the River Thames, this 1960’s housing development, famous for the Channel 4 ident, the one where the camera pans across desolate concrete walkways. The regeneration is underway, a project that will see Taplow House disappear in 2024. Continue reading →