Getting to Work – Digital History Revisited

Pim Huijnen

doi:10.51769/bmgn-lchr.21151

Getting to Work – Digital History Revisited

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Pim Huijnen Utrecht University

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https://doi.org/10.51769/bmgn-lchr.21151

Abstract

Series Digital History
These concluding remarks are part of a series on digital history in the Netherlands and Belgium. Twelve years after the publication of the widely-read BMGN-issue on digital history in 2013 (https://bmgn-lchr.nl/issue/ view/31), this series aims to provide a new state of the field. It comprises four serially published articles, which collectively emphasise the diversity of researchers, questions, methods and techniques that define digital history in 2025. The articles are published online in a new, HTML-based format that better showcases the methods and visualisations of the research published here.

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Author Biography

Pim Huijnen, Utrecht University

Pim Huijnen is assistant professor at the Department of History and Art History at Utrecht University. His research focuses on the use of digital text analysis to study conceptual history and the circulation of knowledge between science, politics and popular culture. He is the principal investigator of a research project funded by the NL eScience Centre (2022-2025) aimed at exploring the use of the latest generation of language models to study conceptual change over time. Among his recent publications are ‘Something Happened to the Future: Reconstructing Temporalities in Dutch Parliamentary Debate, 1814-2018’, Contributions to the History of Concepts 16:2 (2021) 52-82. DOI: 10.3167/choc.2021.160204 (together with Joris van Eijnatten; the article won the the 2022 Richard Deswarte Digital History Prize) and On the Use of Replications in History: A White Paper (Utrecht 2022). DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7037401 (together with Pieter Huistra). Huijnen is a member of the editorial board of BMGN – LCHR. E-mail: p.huijnen@uu.nl.

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Published

2025-04-08

Issue

Vol. 140 No. 1 (2025)

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Articles

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How to Cite

Huijnen, P. (2025). Getting to Work – Digital History Revisited. BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review, 140(1), 38-54. https://doi.org/10.51769/bmgn-lchr.21151