Renaming the Great War
Friday 11 November 2011
This is a fitting day to mention some clever projects that Tim Sherrat has done to extract and process information from a mass of digital data. He describes in his blog how he worked with the Trove archive of Australian newspapers to see when people stopped talking about the Great War and started talking about the First World War. He discussed a wider range of work concerning the Great War in a keynote address.
Graph of occurrences of the phrases Great War and First World War (and its variants) in Australian newspapers in the period 1900-1950, showing that the latter overtook the former around 1941.