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Hunting for Treasure: Living with Machines and the British Library Newspaper Collection. / Tolfo, Giorgia; Vane, Olivia; Beelen, Kaspar et al.
Digitised Newspapers – A New Eldorado for Historians?: Reflections on Tools, Methods and Epistemology. ed. / Estelle Bunout; Maud Ehrmann; Frédéric Clavert. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2022. p. 25-46 (Studies in Digital History and Hermeneutics; Vol. 3).
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Tolfo, G, Vane, O, Beelen, K, Hosseini, K, Lawrence, J, Beavan, D
& McDonough, K 2022,
Hunting for Treasure: Living with Machines and the British Library Newspaper Collection. in E Bunout, M Ehrmann & F Clavert (eds),
Digitised Newspapers – A New Eldorado for Historians?: Reflections on Tools, Methods and Epistemology. Studies in Digital History and Hermeneutics, vol. 3, De Gruyter Oldenbourg, Berlin; Boston, pp. 25-46.
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110729214-002APA
Tolfo, G., Vane, O., Beelen, K., Hosseini, K., Lawrence, J., Beavan, D.
, & McDonough, K. (2022).
Hunting for Treasure: Living with Machines and the British Library Newspaper Collection. In E. Bunout, M. Ehrmann, & F. Clavert (Eds.),
Digitised Newspapers – A New Eldorado for Historians?: Reflections on Tools, Methods and Epistemology (pp. 25-46). (Studies in Digital History and Hermeneutics; Vol. 3). De Gruyter Oldenbourg.
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110729214-002Vancouver
Tolfo G, Vane O, Beelen K, Hosseini K, Lawrence J, Beavan D et al.
Hunting for Treasure: Living with Machines and the British Library Newspaper Collection. In Bunout E, Ehrmann M, Clavert F, editors, Digitised Newspapers – A New Eldorado for Historians?: Reflections on Tools, Methods and Epistemology. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg. 2022. p. 25-46. (Studies in Digital History and Hermeneutics). doi: 10.1515/9783110729214-002
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