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Dr Christopher Donaldson

Lecturer in Regional History

History

Bowland College

LA1 4YT

Lancaster

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Tel: +44 1524 592349

ORCID: 0000-0002-2924-3001

Research overview

My research is primarily concerned with 18th- and 19th-century cultural and environmental history, with a specific emphasis on the history of the English Lake District. I am also especially interested in travel writing and topographical literature. My current research projects include Geospatial Innovation in the Digital Humanities: A Deep Map of the English Lake District (2015-2018), which is funded by the Leverhulme Trust. In addition, I co-edit the Digital Forum for the Journal of Victorian Culture.

PhD supervision

I would welcome enquiries from students interested in writing dissertations and theses on topics that would fall under the following headings: history of travel and/or tourism; history of Cumbria and/or the English Lake District; historical geography; landscape history; history of national parks

Current Teaching

I contribute to various team-taught undergraduate and postgraduate modules (including HIST100, HIST250, and HIST477), and I convene HIST434: 'Critical Heritage Studies' and HIST491: 'Heritage and Public History Placement'.

Qualifications

I am a Fellow of The Higher Education Academy.

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Selected Publications and Research Outputs

Forthcoming
The Lake District as a Cultural Landscape
Donaldson, C. E., Taylor, J. E. & Gregory, I. N. 18/09/2017 In : Journal of Tourism History.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
Published
Locating the beautiful, picturesque, sublime and majestic: spatially analysing the application of aesthetic terminology in descriptions of the English Lake District
Donaldson, C. E., Gregory, I. N. & Taylor, J. E. 04/2017 In : Journal of Historical Geography. 56, p. 43-60 18 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
Published
Alts, Abbreviations, and AKAs: historical onomastic variation and automated named entity recognition
Butler, J. O., Donaldson, C. E., Taylor, J. E. & Gregory, I. N. 05/2017 In : Journal of Map and Geography Libraries . 13, 1, p. 58-81 24 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
Published
Workflow
Alker, Z. & Donaldson, C. E. 05/2017 In : Journal of Victorian Culture. 22, 2, p. 222-223 2 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial
Published
GIS and literary history: advancing digital humanities research through the spatial analysis of historical travel writing and topographical literature
Murrieta-Flores, P., Donaldson, C. E. & Gregory, I. N. 6/03/2017 In : Digital Humanities Quarterly. 11, 1
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
Published
Digital literary geography and the difficulties of locating 'Redgauntlet Country'
Donaldson, C. E., Bushell, S. C., Gregory, I. N., Rayson, P. E. & Taylor, J. E. 30/11/2016 In : Studies in Scottish Literature. 42, 2, p. 174-183 10 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
Published
Digital pedagogy in and beyond the classroom
Alker, Z. & Donaldson, C. E. 10/2016 In : Journal of Victorian Culture. 21, 4, p. 548-549 2 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial
Published
The future of academic journals
Alker, Z., Donaldson, C. & Mussell, J. 2/01/2016 In : Journal of Victorian Culture. 21, 1, p. 92-94 3 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial
Forthcoming
Modelling space in historical texts
Gregory, I. N., Donaldson, C. E., Hardie, A. & Rayson, P. E. 31/10/2017 The shape of data in digital humanities: modeling texts and text-based resources. Flanders, J. & Jannidis, F. (eds.). Routledge, (Digital Research in the Arts and Humanities)
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Chapter (peer-reviewed)
Published
Shifting interpretations of the English Lake District
Donaldson, C. E. 16/06/2016 Changing perceptions of nature. Convery, I. & Davis, P. (eds.). London: Boydell & Brewer, p. 145-152 11 p. (Heritage Matters; vol. 18)
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Chapter (peer-reviewed)
Published
Implementing corpus analysis and GIS to examine historical accounts of the English Lake District
Donaldson, C. E., Gregory, I. N. & Taylor, J. E. 2017 Historical atlas: its concepts and methodologies. Bol, P. (ed.). Seoul: Northeast Asian History Foundation, p. 152-172 21 p.
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Chapter (peer-reviewed)
Published
Literary mapping in the digital age
Cooper, D. (ed.), Donaldson, C. (ed.) & Murrieta-Flores, P. (ed.) 28/04/2016 London: Routledge. 308 p. (Digital Research in the Arts and Humanities)
Research output: Book/Report/Proceedings › Book
Published
Geographical text analysis: digital cartographies of Lake District literature
Gregory, I. & Donaldson, C. 05/2016 Literary mapping in the digital age . Cooper, D., Donaldson, C. & Murrieta-Flores, P. (eds.). London: Routledge, p. 67-78 12 p. (Digital Research in the Arts and Humanities)
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Chapter (peer-reviewed)
Published
Mapping ‘Wordsworthshire’: a GIS study of literary tourism in Victorian Lakeland
Donaldson, C., Gregory, I. & Murrieta-Flores, P. 14/08/2015 In : Journal of Victorian Culture. 20, 3, p. 287-307 21 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
Published
Geoparsing, GIS, and Textual Analysis: Current Developments in Spatial Humanities Research
Gregory, I. N. (ed.), Donaldson, C. E. (ed.), Murrieta-Flores, P. (ed.) & Rayson, P. E. (ed.) 1/03/2015 In : International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing. 9, 1, p. 1-14 14 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
Published
Digital approaches to understanding the geographies in literary and historical texts
Gregory, I., Donaldson, C., Murrieta-Flores, P., Rupp, C. J., Baron, A., Hardie, A. & Rayson, P. 2014 Digital Humanities 2014 Conference Abstracts.
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Conference contribution
Published
Customising geoparsing and georeferencing for historical texts
Rupp, C. J., Rayson, P., Baron, A., Donaldson, C., Gregory, I., Hardie, A. & Murrieta-Flores, P. 2013 Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE International Conference on Big Data. IEEE, p. 59-62 4 p.
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Paper
Published
Integrating corpus linguistics and spatial technologies for the analysis of literature
Murrieta-Flores, P., Gregory, I., Cooper, D., Donaldson, C., Baron, A., Hardie, A. & Rayson, P. 2013 Corpus Linguistics 2013 Abstracts. Hardie, A. & Love, R. (eds.). UCREL, p. 222-225 4 p.
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Conference contribution

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Activities

'Undefiled by the Intrusion of Bad Taste' A Few Early Impressions of Haweswater
Activity: Public engagement and outreach › Public lecture/debate/seminar
Furness Abbey, Post-Reformation: The Romance of the Ruins
Activity: Public engagement and outreach › Public lecture/debate/seminar
Northerness Workshop
Activity: Conference participation › Participation in workshop, seminar, course