The digital age is affecting all aspects of historical study, but much of the existing literature about history in the digital age can be alienating to the traditional historian who does not necessarily value or wish to embrace digital resources. History in the Digital Age takes a more conceptual look at how the digital age is affecting the field of history for both scholars and students. The printed copy, the traditional archive, and analogue research remain key constitute parts for most historians and for many will remain precious and esteemed over digital copies, but there is a real need for historians and students of history to seriously consider some of the conceptual and methodological challenges facing the field of historical enquiry as we enter the twenty-first century.

Including international contributors from a variety of disciplines - History, English, Information Studies and Archivists this book does not seek either to applaud or condemn digital technologies, but takes a more conceptual view of how the field of history is being changed by the digital age. Essential reading for all historians.

The digital age is affecting all aspects of historical study, but much of the existing literature about history in the digital age can be alienating to the traditional historian who does not necessarily value or wish to embrace digital resources. History in the Digital Age takes a more conceptual look at how the digital age is affecting the field of history for both scholars and students. The printed copy, the traditional archive, and analogue research remain key constitute parts for most historians and for many will remain precious and esteemed over digital copies, but there is a real need for historians and students of history to seriously consider some of the conceptual and methodological challenges facing the field of historical enquiry as we enter the twenty-first century.

Including international contributors from a variety of disciplines - History, English, Information Studies and Archivists this book does not seek either to applaud or condemn digital technologies, but takes a more conceptual view of how the field of history is being changed by the digital age. Essential reading for all historians.

Information has a rich but under explored history. The information age of the late twentieth century witnessed the emergence of a new history of information and, in this timely collection of essays, a team of international scholars from a variety of disciplines examines the changing understandings of information in the modern world. Situating the concept of information in varying historical contexts since the eighteenth century, Information History in the Modern World: Histories of the Information Age: * explores how this historical research can challenge our perceptions of the information age in the global twenty-first century * discusses ephemera, wars, imagery, empire, identification and the transience of history in the digital era * argues that the changing uses, perceptions and manifestations of information helped to shape the world we know today. Authoritative and approachable, this is an invaluable resource for anyone who is interested in how and why information has become a distinguishing feature of the modern world.

We are said to be living in an information world, but as early as 1853, The Times was writing of "an age of information." Historical interest in our contemporary information age and in the historical tools and techniques of information processing and management has been the subject of much recent information history scholarship. This book offers a contrast to existing technologically driven histories of the information age. It explores the Victorians' relationship with information and knowledge from a social and cultural perspective and challenges the chronology of 'modern' information. Using primary source material, the book explores case studies of individuals as well more detailed examination of etiquette books, periodicals, and the Channel Tunnel panics of the 1880s. In "The Victorians and Information," Dr Toni Weller argues that the nineteenth century formed the crux point between pre-modern, and what we would now recognise as modern, conceptualisations of information. This book will be of interest to historians, information scholars and students, as well as anyone with a more general curiosity in the social and cultural history of our contemporary information world.