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The 2022 Cultural Heritage Data School, organised by Cambridge Digital Humanities in March, drew participants from the GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums) sector and academia to an intensive application-only teaching programme that explored the techniques for creating, visualising, and analysing digital archives and collections. The programme was designed around the pipeline for digital collections […]

Over his lifetime, Charles Darwin generated an enormous written archive and amassed a wide array of specimens and objects. Much of this is now housed amongst the various collections at the University of Cambridge. Cambridge University Library houses an archive of Darwin’s personal and scientific manuscripts that occupy sixty linear metres of shelving. Work is […]

My animation for the Cambridge Cultural Heritage Data School 2022 public event (Anti)Colonial archives in the digital age is an alternative form of record: a kind of visual minute-taking. As with all minutes (and indeed all archives?), it is partial, informed by my own impression of the talks and discussions that took place. It might […]