The world's first "portable" computer... note the wheels under the function table in the foreground. Also note there are women in the picture. When did programmers lose our way in that particular regard?
A fully searchable edition of the largest body of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people ever published, containing 197,745 criminal trials held at London's central criminal court.
Plebeian Lives and the Making of Modern London, 1690 to 1800, uses recent technical advances in the creation and analysis of multiple digital resources to create a comprehensive electronic edition of primary sources on criminal justice and the provision of poor relief and medical care in eighteenth-century London. This will make it possible for the first time to reconstruct how 'ordinary' Londoners interacted with various government and charitable institutions in the course of their daily lives. By examining how individual Londoners participated in and manipulated these agencies for their own ends, this project will demonstrate how end users contributed to the development of these institutions. More generally, it will assess the role of plebeians in the evolution of social practices in the modern metropolis.
A digital archive of manuscript miscellanies and commonplace books from c. 1450-1720, including research and teaching resources for late medieval and early modern manuscript studies.
Really interesting post by historian behind Zotero. "I believe we are at a similar moment of change right now, that we are entering a new phase of scholarship that will be dominated not by ideas, but once again by organizing activities, both in terms of o
""" We have to begin with Hegel, because before him there really was no true history of philosophy. And Hegels work itself must be taken as a whole: The True is the Whole. If you abstract one piece of the system say, the Logic you falsify both whole and the part. In every one of Hegels works, he emphasises its relation to the history of philosophy. In the system, all the stages of that history appear as aspects (moments), each bound up with a particular stage of the history of society. Each philosophers work is its own time expressed in thought, representing simultaneously a stage of development of society and of societys consciousness of itself. So the history of philosophy is inseparable from the philosophy of history, which traces the unfolding of Spirit, that is, of an entire way of life. For Hegel, each time can be expressed in thought because thought, Spirit, was the primary determining factor in historical movement. """
"Instead of delving into one's painful past to heal one's inner being, the idea at Damanhur is that by nurturing that which is of beauty in each person, all will flourish." "Our intention is to create a new people with a new culture and civilization-a people based on the exhaltation of differences in which everyone, thanks to their own characteristics, represents a precious piece of the whole mosaic." "According to Damanhurian values, life-like one's name-is meant to be fun; no one should not take themselves so seriously."
