Dr James Rogers explains how we can draw parallels between the current COVID-19 pandemic and the Second World War, particularly in how humans have responded to an extraordinary challenge.

In the past few months more than a billion people have faced restrictions unlike any seen before. Shops are closed; the death toll is rising; people across the globe have been forced to rise to an extraordinary challenge. But it is important to remember that humans have...

Historian and broadcaster James Rogers joins us to give a breakdown of the weapons that he believes are the most significant in the history of civilisation, spanning from ancient times to the modern day.

Over the covid-19 lockdown period, Dr James Rogers worked with history teachers and academics to keep the learning going in lockdown. He now has a fantastic range of videos and podcasts available. All content is free to access and is explicitly designed to help teachers...

Online review of The Tesserae Project, a resource that seeks to take advantage of digital corpora to enable the user to find connections between texts. Its web interface allows users to search two texts or corpora from Greek and Latin literature for occurrences of two o...

An R-script for simple visual and/or numeric dispersion analysis of singular text files (beta version). The coding in this version is terrible and not elegant at all by the way.

A simple R-script for the generation of LNRE-based lexical growth curves (beta version). The coding in this version is terrible and not at all elegant.

Dispersor is a very simple script that can help you make dispersion plots. Dispersion plots are a simple way to get an idea of the distribution of a single word or a string, or cluster, of words in one text. Dispersion plots can be used in both Text Linguistics and (Dig...