Date and time: 30th January 2026, 10:00-17:00
Venue: Verdon-Smith International Seminar Room, 1st Floor Royal Fort House, Bristol BS8 1UH
This in-person workshop is designed for postgraduate students and early career researchers less than ten years away from the award of their PhD. Others may apply for consideration on the basis of their specific research needs. This workshop is open to researchers from the GW4 Alliance universities of Bath, Bristol, Cardiff and Exeter. Participants who might benefit from attending include historians, linguists, literary historians, and digital humanities practitioners. There is space for up to 20 participants.
The aim of the workshop is to introduce you to two specific digital techniques that will help you with your research: TEI tagging, and simple map-making. Each session will be led by an academic expert in these areas.
For each session, please bring along (1) a short text that you are working on (up to 1000 words) containing proper names (place and/or people); (2) a piece of your work that requires an accompanying map (of a country, region, town, etc.).
At the end of the first session, you will have produced an index or concordance of proper names from your chosen text.
At the end of the second session, you will have produced a simple digital sketch map.
| 10:00-10:30: Arrival with tea/coffee & pastries | |
| 10:30-11:45: | TEI hands-on session |
| 11:45-12:00: Break | |
| 12:00-13:15: | AntConc hands-on session |
| 13:15-14:00: Lunch | |
| 14:00-15:15: | Mapping hands-on session I |
| 15:15-15:30: Break | |
| 15:30-16:30: | Mapping hands-on session II |
| 16:30-17:00: | Q & A / Closing |
Registration information:
Registration is free and lunch is included. Reasonable transport costs can be paid for participants who live outside Bristol.
Please complete registration using the link to Microsoft Forms below by 26th January 2026
https://forms.office.com/r/D8v0eRhWxb
Further Enquiries to: amy.jones@bristol.ac.uk
