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Thanks for registering for Hacking History Oxford! We look forward to meeting you.

This is a free, all-day DH skills workshop hosted in collaboration with Jesus College Digital Hub, University of Oxford. It includes a complimentary breakfast, lunch and drinks reception!

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Date:
Tuesday 13^th May 2025

Location:
Cheng Kar Shun Digital Hub, Jesus College, Oxford University

Agenda:

9:00am ~ Welcome and Breakfast
9:30am ~ Hackathon starts
12:30pm ~ Lunch
4:45pm ~ Close of Hackathon
5:00pm ~ Lightning Talks and drinks reception
7:00pm ~ End of day

Day Event: Hacking History Oxford

Join experienced and aspiring digital scholars for a day of hands-on skill development and collaboration.

Who’s the event for?

Whether you have experience in digital scholarship, or are looking to build your skills and knowledge, you can join a group tailored to your comfort level. This event is open to all academics, postgraduates, postdoctoral researchers or library staff interested in growing their digital history skills.

Beginners Group

For those relatively new to DH.

Why attend?

Gain experience with DH methods in a hands-on, expertly guided, collaborative, low-pressure atmosphere.
Develop your skills with digital methodologies at the forefront of research and instruction.
Break down barriers to teaching with DH – and solidify your pedagogical knowledge.

Advanced Group

For those already comfortable using DH methods.

Why attend?

Learn from each other – and accelerate teaching and learning as well as your own research skills – in a hands-on environment.
Gain insights and ideas to share across your institution's humanities and social science research community.
Make new connections, spark new ideas – and get a download of the datasets your team created.

Get Set for Hacking History - A video to watch before the day

The tool you’ll be using on the day is Gale Digital Scholar Lab – Gale’s innovative, integrated text and data mining environment. To enable you to quickly start working with the Lab, this short video will introduce you to the Lab – what it is, how to access it, and how it works.

Evening Event: DH Fellows Lightning Talks

As part of Hacking History Oxford, you’re invited to an evening drinks reception which will feature lightning talks from this year's Gale Scholar Asia Pacific DH Oxford Fellows. The fellows will introduce their work and discuss the digital methods they are using while completing their 3-month residential fellowship in Oxford.

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Rong Zhou
Wuhan University

Research Topic: "Charitable Organizations and the Urban Public Sphere in Late Qing Shanghai: A Digital Humanities Study Centered on the Daoguang Era Zhengxinlu of Tongji Hall from Oxford University's Bodleian Library"

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Nobuhiko Kikuchi
National Institute of Japanese Literature

Research Topic: "Comparative Historical Studies about the (Dis)connection of St. George's Day and the Book Day in the UK and Spain."

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Christopher Warren
Carnegie Mellon University

Research Topic: "Project 241: Toward a Catalogue of Distinctive Type for Restoration England"

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Thai-Catherine Matthews
Johns Hopkins University

Research Topic: "British Medieval Manuscripts; esp. MS. 686, MS. 638. European medieval manuscripts: French, Italian, Iberian vernacular works."

How to Access Gale Digital Scholar Lab

To ensure you're working in the same environment as your Hackathon team members, you will receive an email sharing specific Gale Digital Scholar Lab access details.

About Group Workspaces

Hacking History is all about collaboration. Gale Digital Scholar Lab enables collaborative project work through Group Workspaces. To make things simple, you’ll be pre-assigned to the group you’ll be working with – you will receive an email inviting you to register for your group in the Lab in advance.

Travel Information

Train: Jesus College is just a 10-minute walk from Oxford train station.
Bus: There are nearby bus stops on the High Street and Magdalen Street, just a few hundred metres away.
Parking: There is no onsite parking at Jesus College, but there are multiple (paid) public car parks around Oxford, and the Park and Ride system is extremely efficient in Oxford.