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I’ve recently finished work on a new book called Computation and the Humanities: towards an oral history of Digital Humanities. It will be published later this year by Springer as part of their series on Cultural Computing (see here). Thanks to the generous support provided by UCL’s open access office it will be possible to publish it under an open access licence.The book will contain 4 new chapters and 13 oral history interviews. I’ll add some details of the interviews over the coming days. In the meantime here is the book’s table of contents:Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction (or, the history of Digital Humanities: once neglected, now emerging and absolutely necessary)Chapter 2: Why oral history?Chapter 3:  Individuation is there in all the different strata: John Burrows and Hugh CraigChapter 4: The University was still taking account of universitas scientiarum: Wilhelm OttChapter 5: hic Rhodus, hic salta: Tito OrlandiChapter 6: They took a chance: Susan HockeyChapter 7: The influence of algorithmic thinking: Judy MalloyChapter 8: I would think of myself as sitting inside the computer: Mary Dee HarrisChapter 9: There had to be a better way: John NittiChapter 10: It’s a little mind-boggling: Helen AgüeraChapter 11: I heard about the arrival of the computer: Hans RutimannChapter 12: For a long time I mourned the University: Michael Sperberg-McQueenChapter 13: It’s probably the only modestly widely used system with a command language in Latin: Manfred ThallerChapter 14: Getting computers into Humanists’ thinking: John BradleyChapter 15: Moderate expectations, tolerable disappointments: Claus HuitfeldtChapter 16: So, into the chopper it went: Gabriel EganChapter 17: Revolutionaries and UnderdogsChapter 18: Conclusion