As digitisation entails a selection of already selected analog materials, historians find themselves facing old questions <anchor xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="Hlk77185328" />pertaining to new and unfamiliar digital environments. How do digital resources shape the historical themes, topics and debates that can be researched and how might they influence research agendas more broadly? In what ways do they enable us to address new research questions and venture into new research avenues that challenge existing master narratives? Can they facilitate research into transnational histories when most digitisation projects are, in one way or another, so often nationally framed? In sum: what are the histories that we can and cannot tell with digitised cultural heritage, and how could we as historians best navigate the challenges that are involved in using them? What, then, are the politics of digitisation and what are its implications for historical research?