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Mexico’s top university orders 58,000 students to resit entrance exam after suspected cheating

National Autonomous University of Mexico says applicants must take test in person after online debacle

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Out today! 🥳 The King's Dinner: Family, nation, and identity on the British table, 1760-1820: uclpress.co.uk/book/the-kin.... My book with Rachel Rich, @sarahfoxhistory.bsky.social & @adamcrymble.bsky.social. It is #openaccess so come take a look! cc @uclpress.bsky.social #skystorians #foodhistory

The King’s Dinner

The King’s Dinner is about what it meant to be British at the end of the eighteenth century. Drawing on the vast kitchen ledgers of two royal households made newly available to research through digiti...

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If these ideas are interesting and you'd like to know more, then boy, do I have the book for you! Along the way, you get to learn about some very colorful characters. Tomorrow, a little bit more about them... press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

The Hobo

A panoramic history of America’s first climate migrants

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Convincing you to buy my book, day 3/31. Let's talk about climate disasters -- how are they experienced by people in their work or everyday lives? Hobos -- American migrant workers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries -- show us one possible answer.

Recently, FamilySearch digitized and uploaded tons of microfilmed records, including many from 18th-century Massachsuetts. They're using some sort of AI to transcribe/summarize the handwritten documents. I've noticed that the AI strips out references to race and enslavement in 18thc documents.

How @camunicampop.bsky.social researchers are turning static snapshots of Victorian Britain into dynamic life histories. The team are linking over 200 million census records, revealing how people moved, worked and lived in ways never before possible. 🔎 Read on 👉 www.hist.cam.ac.uk/news/tracing...

Come and hear @melissaterras.bsky.social at @ucldh.bsky.social on 2 June! "The More Things Change..." www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-more-t...

The more things change - Digital Humanities in a tumultuous world

UCLDH is delighted to welcome Melissa Terras, Professor of Digital Cultural Heritage(Edinburgh), to give the 2026 Susan Hockey Lecture.

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We will soon have fully linked British census data 1851-1921 thanks to @gproffit.bsky.social @alexislitvine.bsky.social Emma Diduch et al!! I'm late to the party but here are my initial thoughts on the 10% sample they've generously released openly. www.joshuarhodeshistorian.com/posts/nomina...

V&A censored catalogues after demands by Chinese printer www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...

V&A censored catalogues after demands by Chinese printer

Exclusive: Victoria and Albert Museum has deleted maps and images deemed sensitive by Beijing censors from exhibition publications

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Digital humanities grad students & faculty always want to offload the data cleaning drudgery on some undergrad research assistant, until they eventually come to realize that's the part of the process where the stack of qualitative assumptions comes from.

Anthony Moser@anthonymoser.com · 7mo ago

every quantitative measure is actually a stack of qualitative assumptions in a trenchcoat

What do we do with duplicates? The original and duplicate are placed in a Document Arena (or Docudome™), then we turn away from them and allow one to consume the other, unobserved. This is a double-blind trial, where we don't know which was the original. Thus, only the strongest document survives.

How are historians rethinking environmental and social history via improved OCR of imperial archives? Join us this Wednesday 3pm UK time to hear from @jimclifford.bsky.social and @historyjacob.bsky.social - registration link below.

Katie McDonough@kmcdono.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Join the Lancaster-Manchester Environmental #DH Seminar on March 11 @ 3pm UK (online) for a talk by @jimclifford.bsky.social & @historyjacob.bsky.social: "Solving OCR: Using olmOCR to Follow Commodities across the British World" www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/solving-oc... #dhist #ocr #envhist 🗃️

Ran the same OCR models on 68 pages of historic newspaper. Every model hallucinated or looped. DeepSeek-OCR-2, LightOnOCR-2, GLM-OCR – all melt down on dense newspaper columns. You can try yourself using this @hf.co dataset: huggingface.co/datasets/dav...

Daniel van Strien@danielvanstrien.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Re-OCR'd the complete 1771 Encyclopaedia Britannica (2,724 pages) with a single command on @hf.co Jobs. - 0.9B model (GLM-OCR) ~$0.002/page ~$5 total on an L4 GPU Before (old Tesseract ocr) → After

Lovely videos from @bucksarchives.bsky.social showing value of archival work. ALSO a perfect demonstration of why older traditional NLP approaches to Named Entity Recognition (NER) fail in historical contexts where people and place are not always mutually exclusive, nor easily distinguishable.

Buckinghamshire Archives@bucksarchives.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Let's play Bucks Name or Name Name

Any ideas what the word/s between 'necessary' and 'Registrar' are in this marginal note from the 1851 English census? I thought I was pretty sure but keep doubting if I've got it right!

Really pleased to announce the launch of the all-new, all-dancing, London Lives website - www.londonlives.org It has been thoroughly re-engineered to facilitate more types of search, and redesigned for phones and tablets. The team very much hopes peope like it. 1/

Was Manchester really as segregated as Engels said? What kept the rich and poor apart.... if anything? My first article is out today in @historicaljnl.bsky.social and I'm so pleased to share it with you all! doi:10.1017/S0018246X25101246 @stjohnscollege.bsky.social @camunicampop.bsky.social

🚨 The Economist has been telling you for years that polygamy causes civil war by locking men out of marriage. A new article with @rebeccasear.bsky.social and @anthrolog.bsky.social explains that the demography of marriage markets doesn't actually work that way. 🧵 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

High rates of polygyny do not lock large proportions of men out of the marriage market | PNAS

There is a widespread belief, in both the scholarly literature and the popular press, that polygyny prevents large numbers of men from marrying by ...

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Job Advert to join my team at UCL 💭Lecturer in Humanities Data Science 💭£54,931 - £57,979 💭Open Ended Contract 💭Great interdisciplinary team Closes 15 September 2025 www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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If you've ever wondered what life in an archive is like, we've discovered this 2005 mobile phone box we've somehow got that's a completely accurate depiction.

I’m no expert but I would’ve got a person to do it.

Excited to try this out! 👇

Just pushed the button on running the Egerton model for the last time before we make it public. We hit 1.1 million words in the training data and 126,000 in the verification set. This has been three years in the making, but it's a great model and really accurate. @transkribus.bsky.social

Wow - so many people already signed up for our Wills Project Transcribathon later this month! 🙏 If you drop by you can transcribe some lines & help make 25,000 English wills more accessible for all. In person & online, join us here: willstranscribathon.eventbrite.com #EarlyModern 🗃️ #Palaeography

My new article on protest marches and processions in London,1780-1915, has just been published online! Thanks to the editors and reviewers of Historical Research for making it such a smooth process. academic.oup.com/histres/adva...

The development of political procession routes and policing the right to march in London, 1780–1915

Abstract. Processions and marches were an integral part of popular politics, protest and urban life. This article maps the routes of 101 civic, political a

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📢WILLS TRANSCRIBATHON KLAXON📢 Join us on Thursday 24 July to transcribe wills and go behind the scenes of the wills project! In person and on Zoom - full details & registration here: willstranscribathon.eventbrite.com #EarlyModern 🗃️ #transcription @leverhulme.ac.uk @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social

New @nber.org working paper from our colleague Kasey Buckles @kaseybuckles.bsky.social (along with Joe Price and Zach Ward), "Grandchild? Multigenerational Mobility in American History." Check it out: www.nber.org/papers/w33923

Like Great-Grandparent, Like Great-Grandchild? Multigenerational Mobility in American History

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

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📢 new paper klaxon 📢 @felixkersting.bsky.social and I reconsider agrarian inequality in German and Swedish history and the role played (or not played) by landlordism in the road to fascism in Germany and democracy in Sweden. I’m very happy about this one! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Welcome to the archives.

Very proud to see @charmianmansell.bsky.social on this shortlist!

Royal Historical Society@royalhistsoc.org · last yr.

The shortlist for the Society's 2025 First Book Prize for early career historians is now available bit.ly/4kkm4lW Eight titles have been selected, following an open call for submissions of books published in 2024. Two winners of the 2025 prize will be announced in July. #Skystorians

I have finished posting the 420,000 words in Thomas Turner's diary of 18thC rural life ( as transcribed by Dean K Worcester). This is significantly more than the published edition (Vaisey, 1984). www.thomasturner.org.uk It's a work in progress. #18c