Stephen Luscombe began with a history-and-ICT assignment and built an index of colonies, people, military units, photographs, and firsthand contributions. The site describes empire as transformative and coercive, not as nostalgia or apology. A teacher’s web experiment became a many-thousand-page institution assembled in public.
Original historical archive: http://www.britishempire.co.uk/
Full Switchboard article: https://switchboardtechservices.com/articles/ancient-web-the-british-empire-site-grew-from-a-1997-teaching-project-to-20000-pages/
#ancientweb #colonialhistory #digitalarchives #webhistory
Original historical archive: http://www.britishempire.co.uk/
Full Switchboard article: https://switchboardtechservices.com/articles/ancient-web-the-british-empire-site-grew-from-a-1997-teaching-project-to-20000-pages/
#ancientweb #colonialhistory #digitalarchives #webhistory
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Categories: Ancient Web & Internet History [c23]