Presents a number of oral interviews and the key themes that emerge on the history of computing in Humanities and Cultural Heritage

Provides an analysis of some of the social, intellectual and creative processes that have helped shape the research into computing in the humanities

The book is accompanied by a website with additional and supplementary material such as archival photographs and sound recordings of oral history interviews

Once Neglected, Now Emerging and Absolutely Necessary: On the History of Digital Humanities or An Introduction.- Why Oral History?.- 'Individuation is There in all the Different Strata:' an Oral History Conversation between John Burrows, Hugh Craig and Willard McCarty.- 'It was a Time When the University was Still Taking Account of the Meaning of universitas scientiarum': an Oral History Conversation between Wilhelm Ott and Julianne Nyhan.- 'hic Rhodus, hic salta': An Oral History Interview Between Tito Orlandi and Julianne Nyhan.- 'They Took a Chance': An Oral History Conversation between Susan Hockey and Julianne Nyhan.- 'And Here We go Back Again to the Influence of Algorithmic Thinking': An Oral History conversation between Judy Malloy and Julianne Nyhan.- 'I Would Think of Myself as Sitting Inside the Computer, Moving Things Around in Order to Accomplish the Goal of my Programming': An Oral History Conversation Between Mary Dee Harris and Julianne Nyhan.- 'I Was Absolutely Convinced That There Had to be a Better Way': An Oral History Conversation Between John Nitti and Julianne Nyhan.- 'It's a Little Mind-Boggling Actually': An Oral History Conversation between Helen Agüera and Julianne Nyhan.- 'I Heard About the Arrival of the Computer': An Oral History Conversation Between Hans Rutimann and Julianne Nyhan.- 'Langezeit habe ich der Universitaet nachgetrauert': An Oral History Conversation between Michael Sperberg-McQueen and Julianne Nyhan.-'It's Probably the Only Modestly Widely used System with a Command Language in Latin': An Oral History Conversation Between Manfred Thaller and Julianne Nyhan.- 'I was Keen on Getting Computers into Humanists' Thinking': An Oral History Conversation Between John Bradley and Julianne Nyhan.- 'Moderate Expectations, Tolerable Disappointments': An Oral History Conversation between Claus Huitfeldt and Julianne Nyhan.- 'So, Into the Chopper it Went': An Oral History Conversation between Gabriel Egan and Julianne Nyhan.- Revolutionaries and Underdogs.- By Way of a Conclusion.