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  Although I have now been travelling on London buses for more than fifty years, I still find that the upper deck of a London bus is one of the most entertaining and diverting places to be. Coming home on the bus this evening, the Strand was disrupted outside King's College by preparations for Lady Thatcher's funeral tomorrow....

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Freemasons Down the Bailey

I have watched and admired with fascination and admiration the growth and development of the Proceedings of the Old Bailey over the past ten years into one of the most important online historical resources. The Old Bailey Proceedings are a constant source of inspiration as to how scholarly historical resources should be developed and taken...

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Thinking about Fluorescent Bunnies

In a previous blog post anticipating the exciting symposium Shared Horizons: Data, Biomedicine and Digital Humanities, I looked backward to the discovery of DNA and suggested that Maurice Wilkins’s description of the nature of collaborative work held lessons for the digital humanities. But the aim of the symposium at Maryland is to look...

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Shared Horizons: Data, Biomedicine and the Digital Humanities

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