Archive for August 16th, 2008

Links Harvest: novels, narrative, BAE

Saturday, August 16th, 2008

Narrative and novels as models for social relations and as simulations of economic approaches. First in a series of BBC4 radio programs on what the novelist's imagination can offer sociological research on place. Settings: the rural idyll, the city, and the suburb. "Once you've restricted yourself to information that turns up in ...

Digital History Hacks

Saturday, August 16th, 2008

William Turkel, an assistant professor of history at the University of Western Ontario, runs a great blog, "Digital History Hacks: Methodology for the infinite archive." I first ran across his blog last year via a couple of his research-related posts, the kind of "how to succeed at grad school" material that ...