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Connected Histories

Jonathan Blaney, Institute of Historical Research, University of LondonDatabases in the Humanities Workshop 21 January 2011

• British History Online• Old Bailey Proceedings Online, 1674-1913• London Lives, 1690-1800• 17th-19th Century Burney newspaper collection• Origins Network• Parliamentary Papers• Clergy of the Church of England Database, 1540-1835• Strype’s Survey of London• Charles Booth Online Archive

Facts and figures• 412 million words• 469,000 publications• 3.1 million further pages of text• 87,000 maps and images• 254,000 individuals in databases• over 100 million name instances

Geocities, Briefcase, Content Match, Mash, RSS Advertising, Yahoo! Live, Yahoo! 360, Yahoo! Pets, Yahoo Publisher, Yahoo! Podcasts, Yahoo! Music Store, Yahoo Photos, Yahoo! Design, Yahoo Auctions, Farechase, Yahoo Kickstart, MyWeb, WebJay, Yahoo! Directory France, Yahoo! Directory Spain, Yahoo! Directory Germany, Yahoo! Directory Italy, the enterprise business division125, Inktomi, SpotM, Maven Networks, Direct Media Exchange, The All Seeing Eye, Yahoo! Tech, Paid Inclusion, Brickhouse, PayDirect, SearchMonkey, and Yahoo! Go!

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Contact

web – www.connectedhistories.orgemail – jonathan.blaney@sas.ac.ukblog – http://ihr-history.blogspot.comTwitter – @ihr_history