Introduction As we enter 2022 full of hope that the worst of the pandemic is behind us in the UK, policymakers will start to consider what lessons have been learnt and what challenges we may still face. Since March 2020, a team of historians and digital humanities...
The threat posed to society by disinformation in the age of social media is rapidly becoming a primary concern for policymakers. NATO allies are struggling to find ways to effectively resist state-backed Russian disinformation campaigns in eastern Europe, as tensions...
Even as we speak, our project’s digital humanities experts are adding the finishing touches to nearly two years’ worth of work. They are tweaking and reworking the scripts for the last time, running the data through the classifiers, and working hard to render their...
Event type: Colloquium Taking place: Online- via Zoom Event dates: 27 January 2022, 5:30PM – 7:00PM Add to calendar The Covid-19 pandemic has been accompanied by the circulation of a significant volume of mis- and dis-information globally. Rumours and conspiracy...
With Omicron at large, the festive season approaching and rumour and misinformation continuing to hinder the vaccination of a significant minority of the UK population, our research into Covid Rumours in Historical Context has seldom felt more relevant. The team...
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