EmDigIt (Early Modern Digital Itineraries) explores spatial data in early modern travel guides. It processes route details, stops, and points of interest from historic itinerary books using Python,...

Historians use data science to mine the past

The name Ohthere does not usually rank among the famous explorers of the Middle Ages, such as Leif Erikson or Marco Polo. However, his exploits are very impressive, for he would sail into the Arctic…

Abstract. Taking its cue from the weather wars that unfolded around the Alps in the eighteenth century — conflicts between neighbouring towns and polities

On finding a 1604 ‘sat-nav’ in the archives – some thoughts about how people move around long-occupied human landscapes, then and now.

Three days of presentation sessions in the historical neighbourhoods of Karaköy and Beyoğlu will be followed by one day of excursions.

In the eighteenth century, tens of thousands of travelers journeyed to Italy on voyages known then and since as the Grand Tour. These travels in the age of Enlightenment contributed to a massive reima...