Luke Blaxill
PhD Student (with History)
Email luke.blaxill@kcl.ac.uk
Digital Humanities
King’s College London
26-29 Drury Lane
London
WC2B 5RL
Luke Blaxill is from London, UK. He previously completed a BA in History and Politics at Royal Holloway and an MPhil in Political History at Selwyn College, Cambridge. He is currently in his second year of PhD study, researching political language in Victorian electoral politics using computer-assisted corpus-based methodologies. He is co-supervised by Paul Readman in the History department, and Willard McCarthy at DDH.
He previously worked at the Arts and Humanities Data Service as a research assistant on an AHRC strategy project examining the potential application of e-science and grid technologies (stemming from the hard sciences) in the Arts and Humanities. He also currently works part-time for the History of Parliament Trust.
His main research interests include Nineteenth and Twentieth century British political history, political language and oratory, Victorian social and political thought, e-science, and psephology.