Crystal Palace Company – First Annual General Meeting 1853
Crystal Palace Company formed in 1852 to purchase the glasshouse and remains of the 1851 Great Exhibition and somehow – no plan was clear at the start – restart it [...]
Crystal Palace Dinosaurs – Rare 1968 Pamphlet – 150,000,000 B.C.
“150,000,000 B.C.” is a rare pamphlet about the Crystal Palace dinosaurs and other statues by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins created in the 1850s in Crystal Palace Park, Sydenham. It was published [...]
Medical Cards for Croydon Schoolchildren 1920s-1930s
Historians must make more – and more creative – use of AI technologies for data analysis as well as for routine task of data sorting and transcription. To create a [...]
International Genetical Congress (1939, Seventh): Queries using LLM
What work can large-language models (LLMs) do for historical researching? They offer tools for voluminous compilation of data ready for complex human analysis. They can organise and reorganise data. They [...]
Professor Joe Cain 2026