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Gale in Conversation with Professor Simon Burrows, Western Sydney University
Gale in Conversation with Professor Simon Burrows, Western Sydney University
Simon Burrows is a Professor of History and Digital Humanities at Western Sydney University, Australia, where he is Leader of the Digital Humanities Research Group. He is Principal Investigator of the French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe (FBTEE) database, a project which was awarded the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Digital Resource Prize in 2017. He is the author of French Exile Journalism and European Politics, 1792-1814 (Royal Historical Society, 2000), Blackmail, Scandal and Revolution: London’s French Libellistes, 1758-1792 (Manchester UP, 2006), A King’s Ransom: The Life of Charles Théveneau de Morande, Blackmailer, Scandalmonger, and Master-Spy (Continuum, 2010), The French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe II: Enlightenment Bestsellers (Bloomsbury, 2018), and co-editor with Glenn Roe of Digitizing Enlightenment: Digital Humanities and the Transformation of Eighteenth-Century Studies (Oxford Studies in Enlightenment, 2020)
Simon has been making innovative use of Gale Primary Sources archives, notably Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Newspapers Collection and Eighteenth Century Collections Online in his teaching, student supervision and research for over 15 years. He will be chatting to us about how these archives have helped transform his practice as a teacher and historical researcher, and why these resources continue to excite him.
Simon has been making innovative use of Gale Primary Sources archives, notably Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Newspapers Collection and Eighteenth Century Collections Online in his teaching, student supervision and research for over 15 years. He will be chatting to us about how these archives have helped transform his practice as a teacher and historical researcher, and why these resources continue to excite him.
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