I am a historian of science and technology working on the politics and provenance of data and machines in the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries. My work combines traditional close-reading and archival study with computational techniques.
As of 2025 I work at UCL in the Department of Information Studies, where I am a member of the UCL Centre for Digital Humanities. My research includes an ongoing collaboration with the University of Cambridge Digital Library, where I am developing a project on Humphrey Jennings and his Pandaemonium.
I am an Associate of Cambridge Digital Humanities and continue to be affiliated to the Department of History and Philosophy of Science where I occasionally teach and examine. I am a Research Fellow in the Department of Science & Technology Studies at UCL and also at the Digital Humanities Hub at the School of Advanced Study in London.
I was previously a Senior History Research Associate on the Living with Machines project (led by Ruth Ahnert), which was a collaboration between The Alan Turing Institute and The British Library. I have also done things like work at CRASSH in Cambridge on the Technology and Democracy project, at the Science Museum in London, and at EHESS’s Centre de recherches historiques in Paris. Before that, I was a Kluge Fellow at the Library of Congress in Washington DC and did a PhD at Birkbeck College, having working for a number of years in the film and TV industry before that.
daniel @ danielwilson.info