Paper 2: Medieval charms and experimenta: towards a digital analysis tool – Heather Taylor, University of KentĬharms and experimenta – texts which represent ritual practices using words and/or efficacious ingredients such as herbs and stones to bring about desired results – are prolific in medieval manuscripts. Paying attention to how this digital sphere operates with regard to existing historical frameworks, this research sits as part of her broader interests in remediation, commemoration and material cultures. Building on previous research into history on-screen, Esther’s thesis utilises Hamilton: An American Musical as a lens through which to explore multimodal interactions involving ideas about the past across the digital public sphere. Working largely within the Institute for Public Understandings of the Past (IPUP), her research considers the impact of evolving digital technologies on the formation, circulation and public consumption of historical ideas and knowledge in contemporary societies. Tying into my interdisciplinary PhD which considers the utility of digital ecosystem and critical discourse analysis frameworks for exploring how ideas about the past circulate in digital and social media environments, the paper will highlight the need for further academic understandings pertaining to not only how we approach the past in the digital realm, but regarding the construction of meaning, truth and discourse.īiography: Esther Wilson is a doctoral researcher at the University of York, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council through the White Rose Consortium of Arts and Humanities (WRoCAH). Demonstrating the range of social media content creation and engagement across the Twitter, Instagram and TikTok platforms, the paper will draw out some of the complications of ‘doing history’ in the contemporary digital public sphere. Drawing particularly on this generational perspective, the paper will highlight some of the ways in which on-demand content and social media have provided spaces for fresh engagement with historiographies of the royal family and British politics, from romanticisation and royalism to popular conspiracy theory and anti-establishment sentiment. Today, we have a generation of social media users who are too young to have witnessed press discourse surrounding Princess Diana in the late 20th century, to have been part of her original cult following or to recall the complex commemorative reaction to her death in 1997, but who nonetheless encounter conflicting ideas surrounding her life, death and legacy. The paper will utilise public social media responses to the depiction of Princess Diana in the fourth season of Netflix’s The Crown to explore the ways in which social media platforms can be used to inform, mobilise and share public interpretations of past and present. Paper 1: Netflix’s The Crown and “The People’s Princess”: Making History in the Digital Sphere – Esther Wilson, University of York A series of short papers will be followed by a question and answer session. The IHR Digital History Postgraduate Panels showcase historical research using digital methods that is taking place in the postgraduate community.
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