2025/02/11 by Graeme Morton · 1 voice
Arts and Humanities · #Cultural History and Identity Formation #Digital Humanities and Scholarship #Philosophy, History, and Historiography
paper · pdf · doi:10.1017/s0963926824000828
openalex publication_date 2025/02/11 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01
Abstract Once the disorderly output from the mainframe was pushed to one side, R.J. Morris was quick to realize the potential of the early Apple Mac personal computer to enhance how he taught the historical method. In this article, I reflect on Morris’ pedagogy in the fields of urban history and middle-class formation, and in his approach to nominal record linkage. These insights come from my experience as both an undergraduate and postgraduate student under his guidance and then later as collaborator in the classroom and in research. When teaching the power of the computer to advance the historian’s craft, Bob Morris never lost sight of the ‘concept’ as his favoured means of exploring and understanding historical transformation.