Digital Humanities

Digital Humanities is research and teaching in the humanities using digital methods and tools, allowing us to bring together large bodies of data and ask questions that would be difficult to research without computers.

The University of Glasgow has one of the strongest and longest-established communities of scholars in this area.


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Digital Humanities at the University of Glasgow

Professor Jeremy Smith introduces Digital Humanities at Glasgow

Featured projects


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Bess of Hardwick's Letters

letters written to and from one of Elizabethan England's most famous figures

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Early Cinema in Scotland

A range of resources and archive records on the beginnings of cinema in Scotland

Robert Burns

Editing Robert Burns for the 21st Century

The project will produce a multi-volume edition of Robert Burns's work

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Andy Goldsworthy

The Digital Catalogue documents Andy Goldsworthy's outdoor practice