Digital humanities

Illuminated manuscripts are revealing their secret histories thanks to the application of techniques more commonly found in scientific laboratories...

'Store it safely', 'Explain it', 'Share it' and 'Start early' – four key signposts to follow for successfully managing and preserving your digital...

Isaac Newton’s annotated copy of his Principia Mathematica is among his notebooks and manuscripts being made available online by Cambridge University...

Ancient manuscripts that hold important clues to India’s intellectual and religious traditions will be the focus of a new study.

The headlines don’t look too good for newspapers. With falling readership and growing competition from the Internet, newspapers are questioning how...

Notes and comments scribbled by Charles Darwin on the pages and margins of his own personal library have been made available online for the first...

The only Briton to have entered the spectacular cave featured in Werner Herzog’s new documentary explains how rock-art was just one element of multi-...

A new study of wrongdoing and its cultures in Spain from 1800 to 1936 will explore the fascination of popular versions of crime and other...