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The Soldier in Later Medieval England (www.medievalsoldier.org) is a pioneering project to create an online database of soldiers serving the English crown in its late medieval wars, involving close collaboration between historians and computer scientists. It is the largest medieval database online and has had millions of hits since its launch back in 2011. How did historians find all those soldier names? And how easy was it to create the online interface? What can the database it tell us about our ancestors and what it was like to be a soldier 600 years ago?Anne Curry is Emeritus Professor at the university of Southampton as well as Arundel Herald Extraordinary. She is a leading expert on the Hundred Years War and has published many books and articles on both sides of the Channel. She has a particular interest in Henry V and the battle of Agincourt, and was consultant to the new museum at the battlefield. She but she was also involved in the Heritage Lottery Fund funded project to find the Bosworth battlefield. She has been involved in several online projects and is currently working on a biography of Joan of Arc.
Jason Sadler is a Professorial Enterprise Fellow within Geography and Environmental Science at the University of Southampton, co-director and IT lead at the GeoData Insistute, directing data management and software development activity. As a Computer Scientist with over 30 years' experience in a wide variety of the languages, tools and techniques of Software Engineering, Jason has specialised in delivering projects in areas of environmental and geospatial data management and infrastructure, open data, standards and open source technologies.
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