Time Traveller @TimeTravelData
Pre-colonial African Database. Combining Traveller Texts | Traveller Maps | Data Science. Hosted by @StellenboschUni & @unibz_news timetraveller.voyage Africa Joined September 2022-
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📢Calling all Text-as-Data researchers ⭐️CfP Text-as-Data session: Narratives, Culture and Perceptions💥World Economic History Congress,📍Lund 2025. CfP deadline⏰16th Nov '24⌛️. @ellliottt @phinifa @essobecker
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Introducing the forthcoming special issue on "Comparative Development in colonial Africa" in @rhi_ihr edited jointly with @DacilJuif & Kate Frederick at the @AfEconHis Meeting 2024 @SapienzaRoma, including 5 papers on Portuguese 🇦🇴🇲🇿 French 🇸🇳🇧🇯🇲🇱 and British African 🇿🇲 colonies.
The team - @coetzeelauren and @KarinPallaver - presenting new work on pre-modern currency areas @AfEconHis. Frontier research using BIG DATA to show how Africa was more integrated than previously thought. Joint with @MoradiAlexander, @ale_decola and @Edkerby
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What to learn from 712 journeys of 605 travellers to Africa? Article summary by @Edkerby @MoradiAlexander & Odendaal in @EcHistSocReview : African Time Travellers: What can we learn from 500 years of written accounts? – African Economic History Network (aehnetwork.org)
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@TimeTravelData presentation at @AfEconHis Conference #AEHN #LEAP
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Fascinating work: 230,000 pages of travel diaries exploring 500 years of Africa's economic history. In a way, a wake-up call on the key role of the observer (bias) at generalizing historical knowledge. @EcHistSocReview
Fascinating work: 230,000 pages of travel diaries exploring 500 years of Africa's economic history. In a way, a wake-up call on the key role of the observer (bias) at generalizing historical knowledge. @EcHistSocReview https://t.co/Z2qKyGa3Ee
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Among the most exciting datasets and innovative approaches in (African) Economic History asking new questions by @MoradiAlexander & @Edkerby
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Now on Early View: 'African time travellers: What can we learn from 500 years of written accounts?' By Edward Kerby, Alexander Monradi and Hanjo Odendaal. @Edkerby @MoradiAlexander @UbuntR314 @StellenboschUni @LEAP_SU @unibz_news @BERcoza onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.11…
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Had a fantastic time visiting @Harvard Houghton’s special collections library, collecting some more data for @TimeTravelData @LEAP_SU 📈📖
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LEAP's @Edkerby & co-authors use computational methods to uncover new perspectives Kerby, E., Moradi, A., and Odendaal, H., 'African time travellers: What can we learn from 500 years of written accounts?', The Economic History Review, (2024), pp. 1-38. doi.org/10.1111/ehr.13…
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