Early Modern Notes

Upcoming: The next History Carnival will be hosted by Natalie Bennett on 1 November at Philobiblon. Nominations to natalie {at} nataliebennett.co(.)uk; or via the nomination form; or quickies can be tweeted to @natalieben (use the hashtag #historycarnival).

Upcoming: The next Carnivalesque will be an ancient/medieval edition, at Bavardess on 30/31 October. Nominations to bavardess {at} gmail(.)com or via the usual nomination form.

Hosts needed for History Carnival from 1 December onwards – if you’d like to volunteer please email sharon {at} earlymodernweb.org(.)uk asap!

Seems it’s official: we have funding for our new project, Connected Histories.

Connected Histories will create a federated search facility for a wide range of distributed electronic resources relating to early modern and nineteenth-century British History. …

Using metadata and other available background information, the project will create a search facility that can adapt to each resource to allow searching across a range of chosen sources for names, places and dates as well as keywords and dates. Background information about search results and a facility to save and export search results for further analysis will also be provided. An online collaborative workspace will allow users to document connections between resources.

It’s going to be interesting.