Tools and methods

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Blogging, tweeting and podcasting, Periodicals, Pictures, Tools and methods

Introducing @TroveWW1AirRaidBot

These bots are getting nicher and nicher! @TroveWW1AirRaidBot is a Bluesky and Mastodon bot. Just like @TroveAirRaidBot, it posts Trove newspaper articles containing the phrase “air raid” – with the difference that it only posts those published between 1914 and 1918. The reason for this is because I’ve noticed that @TroveAirRaidBot now posts much more […]

1900s, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, After 1950, Australia, Before 1900, Periodicals, Pictures, Plots and tables, Tools and methods

Breaking the tyranny of distance revisited — II

One thing we were curious to try with hota-time is to see whether the idea and the code could be applied beyond looking at London-Sydney travel times. And it can! Here is the output for Melbourne-Sydney travel times, in hours rather than days: Lots of data points, roughly the same as for the London-Sydney plot.

1900s, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, After 1950, Before 1900, Civil aviation, Grants, Periodicals, Pictures, Plots and tables, Tools and methods

Breaking the tyranny of distance revisited — I

Nearly four years ago, I wrote a post about a software project Tim Sherratt and I were working on for Heritage of the Air called hota-time. Briefly, the idea was that hota-time would extract and then plot travel times between London and Sydney mentioned in Trove Newspaper headlines, as a quantitative way to gauge the

Australia, Blogging, tweeting and podcasting, Periodicals, Publications, Tools and methods

Publication and self-archive: ‘@TroveAirRaidBot, a 24/7/365 research assistant’

I have a short, non-peer-reviewed article about Trove bots coming out in History Australia as part of a special issue on Trove; the advanced access version has just been published. Here’s the abstract: Like many other historians I use Trove for both targeted searches and exploratory ones, which in itself has revolutionised my historical research

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