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A Nation Without Nationalism
Nationalism
What geography made possible, history made inevitable. Gilmour, at least in this book, is not one for nuanced or qualified judgements. Italy as he views it can be numbered among the world’s failed states, indeed he believes it was ‘impossible to create a successful…
History And The Second Decade Of The Web
Historians should think in verbs, not nouns
Although technologists constantly praise computers as ‘universal machines’, and while it is true that they are remarkably flexible and powerful, this does not mean that we should use them for every kind of historical effort or production. We can truly begin to think about…
Three ways to advance digital history
More than ten years of experience with the web has allowed us to understand what the medium does well and what it does poorly, and how we may improve online historical efforts so they capitalize on the web’s strengths while avoiding its weaknesses. This essay explores three…
World War 1 As Linked Open Data
Wikipedia is not accurate enough for historical research
..while Wikipedia contains numerous articles related to military history, many historians remain sceptical of it as a resource for either themselves or their students [19]. Indeed, while Wikipedia seems reassuringly accurate compared to traditional reference sources in the…