Data science meets history. Read a collection of essays dedicated to data-driven inquiries into the past.

Discover how 19th Century Paris trade directories become powerful tools for mapping urban transformation — where history meets data science.

This paper introduces an invariant approach to retrieving and classifying art-historical posture, as examined through a case study focusing on depictions of the crucified Christ.

Who gets remembered in the archives? This article explores how 1.2 million letters reveal hidden networks of 19th-century Finnish women — and what their traces (or absence) say about history, memory, and digital methods.

Manslaughter emerged as a new type of crime heard at the Old Bailey in London in the first half of the nineteenth century. This article describes the methodologies used by Tim Hitchcock and William J Turkel to explore this phenomenon.

Large-scale computer vision reveals that decorative headpiece ornaments in eighteenth-century books circulated far more widely — and systematically — than previously assumed. By tracking image variants across ECCO, the article challenges printer-centric accounts of book production and highlights the overlooked role of publishers and transnational networks.

This article explores the process of developing a digital annotation methodology that allows for the creation of contextual arguments out of entity annotations for both texts and images based on user-defined data models.

How can the needs of researchers inform the design of web maps in the digital humanities?

Evaluative infrastructures in Indian higher education continue to marginalise digital scholarly work by equating academic value with print-based authorship and closure. This proposed framework imagines something better and more equitable.

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This paper examines measures of distinctiveness (also known as keyness measures), employing a qualitative, comparative evaluation of three different measures: logarithmic Zeta, Welch’s t-test, and Log-likelihood ratio test.

What do we do with databases that are too small to be useful for modern data analytics, but too large for a single person to consume? Snelson's book "The Little Database" seeks to find out.

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Recent legal changes in the USA don't change the fact that ebooks are expensive and generally unsuitable for digital corpus construction.

This paper argues for reorienting Digital Humanities through an ethics of ecological care, challenging its entanglement with extractive infrastructures and techno-solutionism. Drawing on feminist care ethics, postcolonial ecocriticism, and environmental humanities, it calls for rewiring DH practices and pedagogies toward environmental accountability and justice.

Daylight is a crucial element in the architecture of inhabited spaces, but in ancient housing it is often difficult to reconstruct. This article presents a 3D reconstruction of a Pompeian atrium house as the basis for modern daylight simulations. The results shed light on which spaces were usable at different times of day, while the methodology provides a foundation for further analyses of comparable houses

Can computational methods reclassify medieval Hebrew texts? This study uses transformer-based embeddings and hierarchical clustering to reveal hidden textual affinities and challenge inherited genre labels.