Centre member, Jenny Cromwell, will be attending the interactive workshop, ‘Gaming history’ at Durham University, which will explore and address the relationship between games, historians, and designers. Despite the global importance of the gaming industry, and the centrality of videogames and contemporary analogue games as cultural artefacts in the modern world, historians beyond Historical Game Studies have often failed to consider games seriously as historical sources, while games industry professionals rarely engage with explicit historical methodologies when designing games set in the past. The workshop brings together academics, independent scholars, and games industry professionals and has a twofold purpose:

• To consider theoretical frameworks for treating games as historical sources

• To explore how we can improve or build responsible historical methods in games development, including education

You can read more about the ‘Gaming History’ project at Durham, led by Helen Roche and Ladan Cockshut here.