WORKSHOP: VPFA – Digital Humanities Workshop with Gale

Digital Humanities Workshop with Gale

Online | Tuesday 19th May 2026 | 3.15 – 4.30pm (UK time)

Register HERE

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VPFA is proud to be partnering with Gale to provide a digital humanities workshop FREE for all members. Excitingly, this comes with a generous offer from Gale to provide FREE access to Gale Digital Scholar Lab to Universities based in the UK. 

Gale are the leading publisher of archives, including Nineteenth Century British Library Newspapers, the Times Digital Archive and Nineteenth Century Collections Online. Their Digital Scholar Lab allows you to build, clean and analyse documents and data, as well as create beautiful visualisations. Capabilities include topic modelling, sentiment analysis, named entity recognition and ngrams. 

If these terms are alien to you, you are the target audience! The aim is to explain what these terms and methods are, demonstrate how they can aid your research, and most importantly – show you how to use them.

If you’ve dabbled with DH tools before or have heard of Gale Digital Scholar Lab but haven’t got access to it, this is also for you. The session will explore a typical text mining workflow, with a focus on how to understand and critique the provenance of data, analyse large, curated sets of nineteenth-century data from multiple sources and use the results to ask new questions of relevant primary sources. Did we mention that Gale are offering free institutional access to the lab!

The session is led by Chris Houghton, the Head of Academic Partnerships at Gale where he leads much of Gale’s collaboration with the global digital humanities and wider academic community. As well as working with scholars to support research and teaching, Chris runs the Gale Fellowship Program, providing financial and research support to dozens of researchers every year. This opportunity to learn directly from him and be able to ask him your questions is not to be missed. 

You can find the programme via the link below.

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The event will be free to VPFA members and £5 for non-members.

Click HERE to join the VPFA.

For non-members, details of how to pay will be emailed to you upon registration.

For more information, email Jessica.Cox@brunel.ac.uk or Siobhan.smith@tees.ac.uk