Centre for history and economics

CENTRE FOR HISTORY AND ECONOMICS

Digital Resources for Historical Research

Rylands Room, King’s College, Cambridge

Friday 8 June 2007
Participants

Leigh Denault - [e-mail]

PhD Student, University of Cambridge

Topic: Household and Family in Colonial North India

Archives/Resources: Lucknow, UP State Archives; National Archive of India, Delhi; Nagari Pracharini Sabha in Banaras; National Archives; Washington, DC, Library of Congress, British Library.
Stefanie Gaenger - [e-mail]

MPhil in Historical Studies, University of Cambridge (PhD student from October 2007)

Topics: (Mphil and PhD): Indigenous Identities in nineteenth-century Latin America, esp. Andean Countries; History of Archaeology and Anthropology in Latin America; Nineteenth-century dialogue between Latin American elites and Europe;

Archives:

Archives/Resources: Ibero-American Institute Berlin; Institute Riva Agüero (Lima),National Library (Lima); Library of the University San Marcos (Lima)
Anthony Grafton - [e-mail]

http://his.princeton.edu/people/e29/grafton/profile.html

Julie Laite - [e-mail]

PhD Student, University of Cambridge

Topic:  Prostitution in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Britain; feminism and prostitution law, 1885-1960

Archives/Resources:  The National Archives (UK); London Metropolitan Archives; The Women’s Library, London; 1891 and 1901 Census Online; Times Online; Charles Booth Online Archive; UK Parliamentary Papers Online; Lexis Nexis.

Philipp Lehmann - [e-mail]

MPhil in Modern European History, University of Cambridge

Topic: Information networks and measures of control in German Southwest Africa (1889-1904).

Archives/Resources: Bundesarchiv Berlin; the National Archives of Namibia in Windhoek; rare books collection in Cambridge and in the Staatsbibliothek Berlin for contemporary printed material; 'normal' online databases, like Proquest and JSTOR for articles.
David Motadel - [e-mail]

PhD Student, University of Cambridge

Topics: Islam in Germany, 1918-1945 (PhD); Intercultural Royal Visits: State Visits of Persian Shahs, 1873-1905.

Archives/Resources: 1) German Federal Archives (Federal Archive of the Foreign Office Berlin, Federal Archive of Berlin-Lichterfelde, Federal Military Archive Freiburg; 2) German Municipal Archives (for example, Baden-Baden (Stadtarchiv), Munich (Stadtarchiv), Berlin (Landesarchiv), Wiesbaden (Hessisches Hauptstaatsarchiv), Karlsruhe (Landesarchiv), Stuttgart (Stadtarchiv), Düsseldorf (Landesarchiv), Detmold (Stadt- and

Staatsarchiv)) 3) German Private Archives (for example, Islam Archive Soest) 4) German Picture Archives (for example, Federal Picture Library in Koblenz, Municipal Picture Archive Essen, Ullstein Picture Service, Süddeutscher Publisher's Picture Service) 5) Iranian National Archives (Archive of the Iranian Foreign Ministry, Iranian National Archive) 6) The National Archives (Kew)

William Nelson - [e-mail]

Research Fellow, Centre for History and Economics/Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge

Topic: How an active orientation toward the future emerged in the French Enlightenment.

Archives/Resources: Archives Nationales, Paris, France; Bibliothèque de l'Arsénal, Paris, France; Bibliothèque centrale du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, Paris, France; Archives départmentales des Yvelines, Yvelines, France; Le Centre des Archives d'Outre-Mer, Aix-en-Provence, France; Hagley Library, Wilmington, Delaware; Rare Book and Special Collections, The Library of Congress, Washington, D. C.; Staatsbibliothek, Berlin, Germany; Gallica, online from Bibliothèque Nationale de France; Eighteenth-Century Online (ECCO).
William O’Reilly - [e-mail]

Associate Director, Centre for History and Economics; Lecturer in History, University

of Cambridge

Topic: Early Modern History; Atlantic History

Archives/Resources: Austrian National Archives (H-,H-,u.Staatsarchiv; Kriegsarchiv); Hungarian National Archives; various German archives (Speyer, Saarbrucken, Koblenz, Karlsruhe, etc.); Gemeintearchief Amsterdam; Bern and Basel archives; Historical Society of Philadelphia; etc.; National Archives (PRO) on-line; a variety of Atlantic history on-line resources.
Pedro Ramos Pinto - [e-mail]

PhD, University of Cambridge

Topic: Urban social movements in Portugal, 1974-1976; Social movements in Southern Europe.

Archives/Resources: Portuguese National Archives; Lisbon Municipal Archives; 25 April Archive at Coimbra University; Parliamentary Debates On-Line, Portgual; Portuguese National Electoral Commission; Portuguese National Institute of Statistics; Times On-line.


Emma Rothschild – [e-mail]

http://www-histecon.kings.cam.ac.uk/emma_rothschild.htm
Julia Stephens - [e-mail]

Urdu and Persian Language Fellow, American Institute for Indian Studies, Lucknow

PhD student, Harvard University (from fall 2007)

Topic: intellectual history of 19th-century Muslim North India, transnational religious movements

Archives/Resources: university and madrasah libraries in North India; Oriental and India Office Library; E-Resources: Digital South Asia Library (University of Chicago); Gerritsen's Online Women's History; British, Irish, and North American Women's Letters and Diaries Online; 19th Century Masterfile
David Todd - [e-mail]

Research Fellow, Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge

Topic: Debates about free trade in France, 1814-1851; Exchanges of economic ideas between Britain, France, Germany, and the US in 19th century.

Archives/Resources: French National Archives; French National Library Special Collections; French Foreign Office and Military Archives; French Overseas Archives; French Local Archives, especially in Gironde and Alsace; PRO; BL, Bodleian Library, Brynmore Jones Library and Hartley Library Special Collections; Duke and Houghton Library Special Collections; Stadtarchiv Reutlingen; FRANTEXT; Gallica; Times On-line.
Robert Watson - [e-mail]

PhD Student, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge

Topic: Security and Usability

Archives/Resources: little personal experience as a consumer of archives and resources; however, strong background in scalable storage systems, and reasonable contacts in a number of the organizations doing large-scale digital archiving and scanning.

Other members of the Digitisation Group

Caitlin Anderson - [e-mail]

Director of Studies, Centre for History and Economics; Research Fellow, Trinity College, University of Cambridge

Topic: nationality law and practice in Britain and the empire, 1770-1870

Resources/archives: British National Archives (formerly Public Record Office), Kew, Surrey; London Metropolitan Archives; Corporation of London Record Office, Guildhall, London; Lancashire Record Office, Manchester, UK.

Online catalogues: Access 2 Archives, PROCat. Full-text resources used

regularly: Eighteenth-Century Collections Online, Times Digital Archive, Gale databases "Making of the Modern Economy" and "Making of the Modern Law."
D’Maris Coffman - [e-mail]

Visiting research student at the Centre, 2005-06

PhD, University of Pennsylvania/IHR

Topic: Early Modern Britain, with an emphasis on late Stuart state formation, Treasury reform and policy, the relationship between taxation and political culture, and the politics of cultural trauma in the early modern period.

Archives:.

Bernhard Fulda - [e-mail]

Research Fellow, Gonville & Caius College, University of Cambridge

Topic: History of Germany in the 20th century

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Gabe Paquette - [e-mail]

Research Fellow, Trinity College, University of Cambridge

Topic: Intellectual History of Spain and Spanish America in the late 18th century

Archives/Resources: National Archives of Cuba, Chile, Argentina, Spain, Portugal, and Brazil.
Paul Warde - [e-mail]

College lecturer, University of Cambridge; reader-elect in History, UEA

Topic: Environmental, economic and social history of early modern Europe

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