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What's the connection between Jane Austen's particular choice of words in an afternoon in 1812,

the oldest manuscript of Beowulf, fake news in 17th century England,

and high-definition digital photography?

To find out, I'm joined by Professor Catherine Sutherland of St Anne's College, Oxford,

Professor Andrew Prescott of the University of Glasgow, and Dr. Noah Milstone, a historian at the University of Birmingham.

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So since digitisation, it's a real sort of buzzword and rightly so, but it can be a bit hard to pin down in the abstract.

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