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About Alexandra Ortolja-Baird
Alexandra Ortolja-Baird is Lecturer in Digital History and Culture at the University of Portsmouth and Visiting Researcher at The British Museum. Her research intersects Intellectual History, History of the Book and Digital Humanities.Alexandra Ortolja-Baird is Lecturer in Digital History and Culture at the University of Portsmouth.
She tweets at @timetravelallie
alexandra.ortolja-baird@port.ac.uk
NBN Episodes hosted by Alexandra:
January 7, 2023
Fictions of Consent
In Fictions of Consent: Slavery, Servitude, and Free Service in Early Modern England (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022), Urvashi Chakravarty excavates the …
March 14, 2022
Permanent Crisis
The humanities, considered by many as irrelevant for modern careers and hopelessly devoid of funding, seem to be in a perpetual state of crisis, at th…
March 7, 2022
The Diplomatic Enlightenment
The Diplomatic Enlightenment: Spain, Europe, and the Age of Speculation (Brill, 2021) reconfigures the study of the origins of the Enlightenment in th…
December 8, 2021
Crafting Enlightenment
A ground-breaking volume examining the transnational conditions of the European Enlightenment, Crafting Enlightenment: Artisanal Histories and Transna…
December 2, 2021
The Color of Equality
The Enlightenment is often either praised as the wellspring of modern egalitarianism or condemned as the cradle of scientific racism. How should we ma…
October 11, 2021
The State of Nature
The phrase, “state of nature”, has been used over centuries to describe the uncultivated state of lands and animals, nudity, innocence, heaven and hel…
September 24, 2021
Big and Little Histories
Big and Little Histories: Sizing Up Ethics in Historiography (Routledge, 2021) introduces students to ethics in historiography through an exploration …
September 21, 2021
Artefacts, Archives, and Documentation in the Relational Museum
Artefacts, Archives, and Documentation in the Relational Museum (Routledge, 2021) provides the first interdisciplinary study of the digital documentat…
September 17, 2021
Aesthetic Science
The scientists affiliated with the early Royal Society of London have long been regarded as forerunners of modern empiricism, rejecting the symbolic a…
May 25, 2021
Charlie Brown's America
Despite—or because of—its huge popular culture status, Peanuts enabled cartoonist Charles Schulz to offer political commentary on the most controversi…
January 19, 2021
Forms, Formats and the Circulation of Knowledge
Forms, Formats and the Circulation of Knowledge: British Printscape’s Innovations, 1688-1832 (Brill, 2020) explores the printscape – the mental mappin…
November 24, 2020
Digitizing Enlightenment
Digitizing Enlightenment: Digital Humanities and the Transformation of 18th-Century Studies (Liverpool UP, 2020) explores how a set of inter-related d…
November 6, 2020
Capitalisms
Capitalisms: Towards a Global History (Oxford University Press, 2020), edited by Kaveh Yazdani and Dilip M. Menon, aims to decenter work on the histor…
October 29, 2020
Mapping Crisis
The digital age has thrown questions of representation, participation and humanitarianism back to the fore, as machine learning, algorithms and big da…
October 2, 2020
The Past Can't Heal Us
In The Past Can't Heal Us: The Dangers of Mandating Memory in the Name of Human Rights (Cambridge UP, 2020), Lea David critically investigates the rel…
September 18, 2020
Rights at the Margins
The essays in Rights at the Margins: Historical, Legal and Philosophical Perspectives (Brill) explore the ways rights were available to those in the m…
September 8, 2020
The Morals of the Market
Drawing on detailed archival research on the parallel histories of human rights and neoliberalism, in The Morals of the Market: Human Rights and the R…
September 7, 2020
The Early Modern Global South in Print
Early modern geographers and compilers of travel narratives drew on a lexicon derived from cartography’s seemingly unchanging coordinates to explain h…
August 28, 2020
On the Spirit of Rights
By the end of the eighteenth century, politicians in America and France were invoking the natural rights of man to wrest sovereignty away from kings a…
August 25, 2020
Contesting Europe
While the term ‘Europe’ was used sporadically in ancient and medieval times, it proliferated between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and gained…
August 20, 2020
Women’s Labour and the History of the Book in Early Modern England
Women’s Labour and the History of the Book in Early Modern England (Bloomsbury, 2020) reveals the valuable work that women achieved in publishing, pri…
August 3, 2020
John Millar and the Scottish Enlightenment
During the long eighteenth century the moral and socio-political dimensions of family life and gender were hotly debated by intellectuals across Europ…
July 21, 2020
Abolitionism and the Persistence of Slavery in Italian States 1750–1850
Abolitionism and the Persistence of Slavery in Italian States 1750–1850 (Palgrave MacMillian, 2019) offers a pioneering study of slavery in the Italia…
July 13, 2020
Future Histories
When we talk about technology we always talk about the future—which makes it hard to figure out how to get there. In Future Histories: What Ada Lov…