[SIGCIS-Members] The new Newcastle University Historical Computing website

[James Cortada]

Wonderful. Thank you so much for doing this!!!!!  Jim Cortada

On Tue, Dec 9, 2025 at 8:06 AM Brian Randell via Members <
members at lists.sigcis.org> wrote:

> Hi:
>
> I am pleased to announce the new website - at
> https://www.societies.ncl.ac.uk/nuhc/  - that I and colleagues have
> created over the last few months.
>
> This website complements Newcastle University Historical Computing
> Committee’s Display in the School of Computing. It is intended both for
> people who having seen the Display now wish to explore further, and for
> those who have not had an opportunity to visit the Display. The website’s
> provisions therefore include:
>
>    - an overall account of work of the Committee and photographs of all
>    the display cabinets
>    - detailed catalogues of our large collections of historical artefacts
>    and documents
>    - accounts of events (both formal and informal!) that have helped form
>    the history of the Computing Laboratory and its successors: the School of
>    Computing and NUIT (Newcastle University IT Service)
>    - images and transcripts of a large variety of historic documents
>    connected with these three organisations
>    - a tribute to the late Roger Broughton, originator of all these
>    efforts.
>    -
>
> Cheers
>
> Brian Randell
>
>
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-- 
James W. Cortada
Senior Research Fellow
Charles Babbage Institute
University of Minnesota
jcortada at umn.edu
608-274-6382
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