Historical Vision in a Digital Age

Cultural and Social History

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 343-348

  Jordanova, Ludmilla ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

digital culture; historical practice; images; portraiture

Indexed keywords

EID: 84938564781     PISSN: 14780038     EISSN: 14780046     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2752/147800414X13983595303237     Document Type: Article

References (12)

1. I.GregoryIan and P.EllPaul, Historical GIS: Technologies, Methodologies and Scholarship (Cambridge, 2007); A.K.KnowlesAnne Kelly (ed.), Placing History: How Maps, Spatial Data, and GIS Are Changing Historical Scholarship (Redlands, CA, 2008).
2. W.McCartyWillard, Humanities Computing (Basingstoke, 2005); S.SchreibmanSusan (eds), A Companion to Digital Humanities (Malden, MA, Oxford and Carlton, Victoria, 2004), ch. 5 is about history; M.DeeganMarilyn and W.McCartyWillard (eds), Collaborative Research in the Digital Humanities (Farnham, Surrey, and Burlington, VT, 2011).
3. www.npg.org.uk/ — all the parts of the site mentioned below were accessed on 2 February 2014.
4. Recently published volumes are J.IngamellsJohn, M.-G.PortraitsMid-Georgian, 1760–1790 (London, 2004) and J.IngamellsJohn, Later S.PortraitsStuart 1685–1714 (London, 2009). The current project, the Later V.P.CatalogueVictorians Portrait, is led by P.DrFunnellPeter; see www.npg.org.uk/research/programmes/late-victorian-catalogue.php for more details.
5. Portraits owned by the Gallery are also hung at Beningbrough Hall, Bodelwyddan Castle and Montacute House; for further details see www.npg.org.uk/beyond.phs.
6. J.SimonJacob, The Art of the Picture Frame: Artists, Patrons and the Framing of Portraits in Britain (London, 1996).
7. For J.Simon'sJacob online work on framemakers, see www.npg.org.uk/research/conservation/directory-of-british-framemakers.php — this is updated from time to time. When I accessed the site on 2 February 2014, I saw there had been some updating in September 2013. A part of the Gallery's site is dedicated to new research on the collection: www.npg.org.uk/research/new-research-on-the-collection.php.
8. D.CohenDaniel and R.RosenzweigRoy, Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web (Philadelphia, PA, 2006); R.RosenzweigRoy, Clio Wired: The Future of the Past in the Digital Age (New York and Chichester, 2011).
9. For example, there are fourteen derivative prints of W.HarveyWilliam, and seven for both H.SloaneHans and R.MeadRichard. That many of these are the ‘same’ image is extremely helpful for researchers, especially when they appear in extra-illustrated books.
10. T.HitchcockTim, ‘Confronting the Digital: Or How Academic History Writing Lost the Plot’, Cultural and Social History, 10(1) (2013), p. 14, mentions the role of happenstance in ‘traditional hard-copy research’.
11. All about History is a new monthly magazine aimed at a wide audience. See www.historyanswers.co.uk for more information.
12. Hitchcock, ‘Confronting the Digital’, pp. 14, 16, 19.