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Warrior women, indigenous knowledge and the legacies of colonialism [Short Film]
British-Jamaican artist Charmaine Watkiss and Sloane Lab Project Curator Alicia Hughes discuss The Warrior’s Way: Safeguarding the natural history of Jamaica, Charmaine’s new work responding to the work of naturalist, physician and slave owner Sir Hans Sloane, whose collections provided the foundation of The British Museum. “And my plant warrior holding this same scroll, she’s…
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Digitality workshop: Loss, absence and contestation in Digital Humanities through the lens of the collection of Hans Sloane [Video Lecture]
In this lecture Prof. Julianne Nyhan (Principal Investigator) presents an introduction to some of the big questions to be grappled with during the AHRC towards a National Collection-funded project “The Sloane Lab: Looking back to build future shared collections” (2021-24). Our project aims to devise automated and augmented ways, of mending the broken links between…
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Data for the Digital Historian: The Sloane Lab Experience [Video Lecture]
In this lecture, taught as part of the course “Concepts and Context of Digital History” at TU Darmstadt, Dr Daniele Metilli, Research Fellow at the Sloane Lab, introduces students to the use of data as a source for historical research, looking at different kinds of data and forms of scholarship that Digital Humanities (DH) projects…
