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Since 1974, the Devolution issue has assumed great importance in the politics of the UK. Northern Ireland's experience of a devolved system between 1921 & 1972 serves as an illustration of the pitfalls awaiting the Westminster government's present attempts to come to some accommodation with the forces of Scottish & Welsh nationalism. Devolution was not sought in Northern Ireland but was imposed upon it to solve an intractable political problem. Conversely, a devolved system is being offered to Scotland & Wales in order to stave off a potentially intractable problem. If a devolved system for Britain is devised, the Northern Ireland experience would suggest that at least two major problems will arise: (1) How does one measure the degree of autonomy? (2) Is it possible to reach agreement on an equitable financial relationship? The Northern Ireland example would suggest that, in the long term, constitutional tinkering will fail in GB as it did in Ireland. AA.

Digital humanities has become an influent ial and widely adopted term only in the past decade. Beyond the rapid multiplication of associations, centres, conferences, journals , projects, biogs, and tweets frequently used to signal this emergence, if anything characterizes the field during this time it is a concern with definition. This focus is acknowledged and reflected, for instance, in Matthew Gold's 2012 edited collection, Debates in Digital H11manlties. The debates surveyed are overwhelmlngly definitional: 'As digital humanities has received increasing attention and newfound cachet, its discourse has grown introspective and self-reflexive' (x). Questions that Gold identifies as central to and expressive of the emerging field include: Does one need to build or make things to be part of the digital humanities? 'Does DH need theory? Does lt have a politics? Is it accessible to all members of the profession', or only those working at elite, well-funded Institutions? 'Can it save the humanities? The university?'