Part 1 Foreward: the historian and the database, Lou Burnard. Part 2 Sources: jubilant and joyful or distraught and disillusioned - computer applications in the searchroom - the experience of Glasgow University archives, Michael Moss; liberating the historical record, Arnott Wilson; the medical archives and manuscripts survey - three in one - surveying, publishing and creating a database, Janet Foster and Marion I.Bowman; computerization of the national register of archives - designing a system for staff and public use, James Parker. Part 3 Methods: the classification of occupation in past time problems of fission and fusion, Stuart Blumin; from historian's know-how to knowledge base - using a shell, Caroline Bourlet and Jean Luc-Minel; hypertext and art history in art design education at Coventry Polytechnic faculty of art design, Alan Dyer; multi-sourced and integrated databases for the prosopographer, Daniel I.Greenstein; structuring the past - the occupational and household classificaton of census data, Edward Higgs; the computer scientist and the historian - problems - yes, solution - pending, John Jeacocke; the historian and codes - master and slave or slave and master?, Kevin Schurer. Part 4 Teaching: seeking patterns, making meanings - using computerized sources in teaching history in secondary schools, Frances Blow; the microcomputer in the history classroom, opportunities and challenges for pupils and teachers, James M.McArthur; the future of the past - the use of the multisource visual database to aid historical understanding, Robert K.Munro; taking the plunge - planning a course on computing for historians, Colin Phillips; computers, education and the transmisson of historical knowledge, project CLIO, Jeffrey L.Newton; computing for history undergraduates - a first year foundation course, Andrew Ayton; counting heads - using small datasets from 18th century English and Danish census type sources in undergraduate courses, Thomas Munck; prosopography and proletarian governments, using mainframes, complex software and research databases in undergraduate teaching, Evan Mawdsley and Stephen Whitelaw; improving and expanding computer-based history teaching for undergraduates, Richard Trainor. Part 5 Research: computerising the godly - the application small databases to anecdotal history, Donald A.Spaeth; the treaty of union - influencing the Scottish vote, 1706-07, Allan I.Macinnes; a database for historical reconstruction - Manchester in the industrial revolution, Roger Lloyd-Jones and M.J.Lewis; Glasgow valuation database - sources and strategies, Nicholas J.Morgan; census studies, comparatively speaking, Brenda Collins; identifying social networks with a computer-aided analysis of personal diaries, Stana Nenadic; the medical profession in Scotland, 1911 - the creation of a machine-readable database, Marguerite Dupree. Part 6 Conclusion: the nature and future of historical computing, Charles Harvey.
