Resources & Publications

Nyhan, J., Rockwell, G., Sinclair, S., & Ortolja-Baird, A. (Eds.). (2023). On Making in the Digital Humanities: The scholarship of digital humanities development in honour of John Bradley. UCL Press.

Nyhan, J. (2022). Hidden and Devalued Feminized Labour in the Digital Humanities: On the Index Thomisticus Project 1954-67. Routledge.

Nyhan, J., & Passarotti, M. (Eds.). (2019). One Origin of Digital Humanities: Fr Roberto Busa in His Own Words. Springer International Publishing.

Nyhan, J., & Flinn, A. (2016). Computation and the Humanities: Towards an Oral History of Digital Humanities. Springer International Publishing.

Flinn, A., Boyd, D., Morgan, C., & Nyhan, J. (2024). Democratising Access? The interface of new technologies and archived life stories. Oral History Journal: The Life Story in Oral History Practice, 52(3), 102–109.

Smyth, H. K., Nyhan, J., & Flinn, A. (2023). Exploring the possibilities of Thomson’s fourth paradigm transformation - The case for a multimodal approach to digital oral history? Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 38(2), 720–736.

Nyhan, J., Flinn, A., & Welsh, A. (2015). Oral History and the Hidden Histories project: Towards histories of computing in the humanities. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 30(1), 71–85.

Nyhan, J. (2023). The history of the ‘techie’ in the history of digital humanities. In J. Nyhan, G. Rockwell, S. Sinclair, & A. Ortolja-Baird (Eds.), On Making in the Digital Humanities: The scholarship of digital humanities development in honour of John Bradley (pp. 129–147). UCL Press.

Nyhan, J., & Flinn, A. (2022). Oral History and the (Digital) Humanities. In H. Paul (Ed.), Writing the History of the Humanities: Questions, Themes, and Approaches (pp. 153–170). Bloomsbury Academic.

Passarotti, M., & Nyhan, J. (2019). Introduction, or why busa still matters. In J. Nyhan & M. Passarotti (Eds.), One Origin of Digital Humanities: Fr Roberto Busa in His Own Words (pp. 1–17). Springer International Publishing.

Barras, P., & Nyhan, J. (2019). “A Tall, Stooping Figure in Black Crossing the Courtyard”: Philip Barras’ Recollections of Roberto Busa S.J. In J. Nyhan & M. Passarotti (Eds.), One Origin of Digital Humanities: Fr Roberto Busa in His Own Words (pp. 221–227). Springer International Publishing.

A lecture series co-organised by TU Darmstadt, University College London, Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH) and the Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte. We invited speakers to present work on recent technological developments that may hold promise for digital oral history. The seminar series aims to appeal to (digital) oral historians, digital humanists and scholars of the history of information, memory and knowledge systems.

This seminar series was organised by the Centre for Critical Heritage Studies, University of Gothenburg, TU Darmstadt, and University College London. Multimodal Digital Oral History engages with oral history artefacts in all their representational modalities: transcript, sound, waveform, metadata and more. They are positioned as analytical categories of inquiry and also as sites of data-driven analysis; where reflexivity is a core aspect of digitally-mediated research; and as an endeavour that nevertheless remains attuned to oral history as a subjective and intersubjective meaning-making process, situated in space, time, culture and technology.

Zhang, J., Schmidt, F., Vlachidis, A., Humbel, M., Nyhan, J., Flinn, A., Prishchepova, V., Varfolomeyev, A., & Elleringmann, F. (2025). The Connected Past (2025), Coimbra, Portugal.

Humbel, M., Zhang, J., Prishchepova, V., Varfolomeyev, A., Nyhan, J., & Vlachidis, A. (2025). Festival of Digital Research, Innovation & Scholarship, London, UK.

Nyhan, J., & Flinn, A. (2025). DigiCAM25: Born-Digital Collections, Archives and Memory Conference, London, UK.

Flinn, A., & Nyhan, J. (2025). European Social Science History Conference 2025, Leiden, Netherlands.

Nyhan, J. (2024). Korean Oral History Association 15th anniversary symposium, Seoul, South Korea.

Nyhan, J. (2024). MPIWG Digital Humanities Brown Bag Lunch, Berlin, Germany.

Nyhan, J., & Flinn, A. (2024). 2024 IFPH World Conference of Public History, Belval.

Zaagsma, G., Flinn, A., Nyhan, J., Lejeune, E., & Weber, K. (2024). The Making of the Humanities XI, Lund./

Nyhan, J. (2023). History of the Humanities: Stories, Sources, and Challenges Summer school, Leiden, Netherlands.

Flinn, A., Boyd, D., Morgan, C., & Nyhan, J. (2023). The Life Story in Oral History Practice: A Two-Day International Symposium, London.

Nyhan, J. (2023). International Summer School “Oral History Meets European Studies. Sources, Tools and Methods in the Digital Age”, Luxembourg.

Nyhan, J. (2023). Digital Hermeneutics II: Sources, Analysis, Interpretation, Annotation, Curation, Hagen.

Nyhan, J. (2020). The Inevitable Turn: Challenges and Perspectives in Humanities Computing, Milan.

Nyhan, J. (2019). Invited Lecture for the ‘New Horizons: Confronting the Digital Turn in the Humanities’ seminar series at the Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH), University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg.

Nyhan, J. (2018). British Society for the History of Mathematics meeting, History of Computing beyond the computer, Oxford.

Nyhan, J., & Terras, M. (2017). Digital Humanities 2017, Montréal.

Jones, S. E., Nyhan, J., Rockwel, G., Sinclair, S., & Terras, M. (2017). Digital Humanities 2017, Montréal.

Nyhan, J. (2017). The Making of the Humanities VI conference, Oxford.

Nyhan, J. (2017). ITUG-Jahrestagung, Darmstadt.

Nyhan, J. (2025). Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Open Research Colloquium Digital History.

Nyhan, J. (2025). UCDHL Susan Hockey Lecture 2025 [Distinguished Lecture].

Nyhan, J., & Vlachidis, A. (2024). HERMES Open Colloquium. HERMES Datenkompetenzzentrum, Mainz.

Vlachidis, A., MacDonald, I., Valeonti, F., Nyhan, J., & Sloan, K. (2025). magazén, 6(2), 149–178.

Alahapperuma, M., & Vlachidis, A. (2025). In M. Sfakakis, E. Garoufallou, M. Damigos, A. Salaba, & C. Papatheodorou (Eds), Metadata and Semantic Research (pp. 349–362). Springer Nature Switzerland.

Valeonti, F., Vlachidis, A., Nyhan, J., Bikakis, A., Kotarski, R., & Jovanovic, P. (2025). Journal of Documentation, 81(1).

Humbel, M., Nyhan, J., Pearlman, N., Vlachidis, A., Hill, J. D., & Flinn, A. (2024). Journal of Documentation, 81(1), 56–85.

Metilli, D., Hughes, A., Vlachidis, A., & Nyhan, J. (2024). Digital Humanities 2024, Arlington, VA, U.S.A.. (2024).

Metilli, D., Vlachidis, A., Pearlman, N., Sadek, J., Valeonti, F., & Nyhan, J. (2024). UCL Festival of Digital Research & Scholarship, London, UK.

Cunliffe, D., Vlachidis, A., Williams, D., & Tudhope, D. (2022). Computer Speech & Language, 72, 101311.

Humbel, M., Nyhan, J., Vlachidis, A., Sloan, K., & Ortolja-Baird, A. (2021). Journal of Documentation.