Present: SZ, AMS, JW, JA, GG, AR, CT, DW

Brief Notes:

• Consensus around the quality of the article in setting out useful, concrete examples of research being centred on 'radical contextualisation'
• Some question of what this 'rc' can mean in different disiplines, for different historians e.g., working quanititatively vs. narrativistically (is that a word?)
• Useful suggestions relating to micro-history from the p.o.v. of C.E. helping co-create histories via objects- Idiosyncratic nature of objects and collections raises questions for being 'representative'
• Notion of representativeness can nonetheless be described, quantified better and in more detail
• Ethics issues mentioned (pertinent for us too) but not really resolved or even addressed explicitly
• The techniques in the paper not really 'digital', beyond the use of digitalised source material, but searchved manually.
• Question of 'scale' and 'exemplarity' still unresolved: what counts for micro-history, and what goes into the macroscope?

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