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to the kinds of conceptual network analyses that historians may want to conduct. In current work, we use a technique known as epistemic network analysis (ENA) that is optimised for modelling, visualising and comparing conceptual networks, which are typically small, densely connected networks with a fixed number of nodes.6 Of particular value, ENA models and visualises networks in a metric space, which enables analysis and comparison of networks both visually and statistically, and the interface allows researchers to see the original data that contributed to any connection in a given network graph, facilitating triangulation between the quantitative model and the qualitative data that produced it. Network analysis is, of course, only one example of a mixed-methods approach to historical research, and there are certainly more aspects of network analysis worthy of serious discussion by historians. It is our hope that this paper and the others that accompany it, much like the panel from which they emerged, will stimulate further discussion about how we can incorporate new approaches and tools into our historical toolkits in order to better understand the past.