Mass digitization of large library and archival collections is changing the conditions for historical research. Sources that have been difficult to access become easily available, and digital tools help historians to analyze a huge amount of data.

At LUCK we are interested in how these processes are intervened with the circulation of knowledge in society at large and historical scholarship. We research how historians interact with digitized collections and we engage with stakeholders outside of academia to promote and critically reflect on digitization projects. LUCK cooperate with the research platform DigitalHistory@Lund, and will the coming years arrange seminars and workshops on digitality in historical research.

Coordinator at LUCK: Kajsa Weber

Suggested reading:

Larsson Heidenblad, David, “The Emergence of Environmental Journalism in 1960s Sweden: Methodological Reflections on Working with Digitized Newspapers,” in Östling, Johan, Olsen, Niklas & Larsson Heidenblad, David (eds.) (2020). Histories of knowledge in postwar Scandinavia: Actors, arenas, and aspirations. London: Routledge

Weber, Kajsa, “Digitaliseringen av svenskt tryck: Massdigitalisering, kritisk digitalisering och frågan om hur man skapar en representativ korpus”, Lychnos. Årsbok för idé- och lärdomshistoria (Tema: Digital historia) (2023), 151–163. DOI: 10.48202/24139

Weber, Kajsa, “Empiri och historikerns sökverktyg: Kataloger, bibliografier, databaser och Melchior Hofmanns böcker som aldrig togs upp i den svenska nationalbibliografin”, Historisk Tidskrift (Tema: Empiri) 142:3 (2022), 353–379.

Zaagsma, Gerben “Facing the History Machine: Toward Histories of Digital History”, History of Humanities, 9:2 (2024), p. 451-491.

Snickars, Pelle, “Modeling Media History: On topic models of Swedish media politics 1945–1989”, Media History 28:3 (2022), 403–424. https://doi.org/10.1080/13688804.2022.2079484