Space and Time in 100 Million Words: Health and Disease in a Nineteenth-century Newspaper
Journal: International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing
Year: 2018

The abundance of information contained in nineteenth-century texts means the traditional ‘close reading’ of Victorian culture has limitations. With the burgeoning availability of newspapers in digital format, there is a pressing need to look at how we might effectively and efficiently use these digital resources to help answer research questions and add to key historical and geographical debates. Focusing on the analysis of a large digital corpus, this paper has two key foci: (I) to apply an inn