Tag: Big idea AudioBig Data and the gendering of Parliamentary languageFriday 22 July 2016Luke Blaxill discusses the ways in which Big Data techniques can introduce quantification into...Archives and archivistsArchaeology and espionage: The secret political life of Professor Vere Gordon ChildeThursday 30 June 2016Dr Katie Meheux, UCL Institute of Archaeology, discusses Professor Vere Gordon Childe (1892-1957). Childe...Archives and archivistsMateriality matters: new approaches to medieval wax seal studiesMonday 7 March 2016Wax seals have been widely studied in terms of how they look, what they...Archives and archivistsBig Ideas: Freedom of Memory: A new human right?Friday 30 October 2015This presentation introduces the concept of Freedom of Memory, which Elizabeth is currently developing....AudioBig Ideas: On pilgrimage in EnglandFriday 11 September 2015The 1930s saw a resurgence of interest in local knowledge and traditions, and intense...AudioBig Ideas: Innovation in the Air ForceFriday 4 September 2015Ross Mahoney’s talk is based on sources ranging from operational records held by The...AudioBig Ideas: The women’s war in the Middle East – women’s First World War service in Egypt, Gallipoli, Mesopotamia and PalestineFriday 10 July 2015Nadia Atia is Lecturer in World Literature at Queen Mary, University of London. Her...AudioBig Ideas: Rapid response collectingFriday 13 March 2015Rapid Response Collecting is a new strand to the V&A’s collecting activity – one...AudioBig Ideas: ‘An heroic, slow-motion cataloguing of life’: ethics and digitisationFriday 27 February 2015A culture shift is taking place in the Wellcome Library’s Special Collections team. Driven...AudioBig Ideas: The shape of timeFriday 9 January 2015Visualisation is widely believed to bring many benefits, assisting us in making sense of...AudioBig Ideas: The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Cultural Value ProjectFriday 12 December 2014The Arts and Humanities Research Council’s Cultural Value Project was set up late in...AudioBig Ideas: Understanding patterns of behaviour for users of public recordsFriday 10 October 2014When Google launched in 1998, a prime ingredient in their not-so-secret sauce was the... 1 2 »