What Makes a Project Good or Bad? Lessons from Early Eighteenth-Century Germany
Anyone who has ever written an academic project proposal will recognise the demands in this early 18th-century German work, writes Kelly J. Whitmer.
Echoes of Anti-Black Projects Across Time
Meagan Wierda on how the sudden closure of archives during the COVID-19 pandemic led her to a revealing nineteenth-century pamphlet.
The Strange Decline of the Global Imaginary
What has happened to the post-war global imaginary? Find out in this blog post by Björn Lundberg.
The Biggest, the Most Blank of the World’s Blank Spaces
How was Africa mapped before it was unmapped in the eighteenth century? Find out in this blog post by Petter Hellström.
Considering Uncertainty
Djoeke van Netten gives some behind-the-scenes insights into the making of this year's special issue ‘Mapping Uncertain Knowledge’ and the many academic uncertainties navigated along the way.
“Those Curious Repositories of the Sentiments and Actions of Men”
How did an eighteenth-century antiquarian go about collecting and classifying typographical antiquities? Find out in this post on Joseph Ames’ 1749 history of printing.
Common and Not So Common Serendipities of Research
To what extent do serendipitous encounters shape our research? This author met her local collaborators by chance on the internet.
Extraction with Restraint: Data Practices in Eighteenth-Century Mining
Holding back for future gain: How archives and bureaucracy aided “sustainable” investment strategies in Amsterdam and Saxony.
One Missing Document, and the Problem of Documenting History in the Imperial Archive
What started out as a simple paper chase soon became a project about Qing efforts to generate and track information about local administrative activities...
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