The Letters of Richard Cobden (1804-65) Online
Transcriptions of c.5,500 letters that enable an exploration of active citizenship in the 19th and 21st centuries.
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British Army Officers, 1790-1820
A case study of 40,000 British Army officers who served between 1790 and 1830
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Scoping future data services for the arts and humanities
This project will scope the establishment of a national data service for the arts and humanities
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From telegrams to Twitter
Archives of letters sent to party leaders will uncover impact of political correspondence
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C21 Editions
Scholarly Editing and Publishing in the Digital Age
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Spaces of HOPE
The hidden history of community-led planning in the UK.
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The Gersum Project: Follow-On Funding
The vocabulary of Standard English includes approximately 600 words from Old Norse, the language of the Scandinavian newcomers who settled in Britain from the 9th to the 11th centuries (popularly known as ‘the Vikings’).
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Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) / George-Andrei Ionita (Developer – The Digital Humanities Institute)
Piston, Pen & Press
An AHRC-funded project which aims to understand how industrial workers, from the 1840s to the 1910s, engaged with literary culture through writing, reading, and participation in wider cultural activities.
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100 Ballads
Hit Songs and their Significance in Seventeenth-Century England.
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European Cinema Audiences
European Cinema Audiences is a comparative research project that explores European film cultures in the 1950s.
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Beyond the Multiplex
Beyond the Multiplex was a four year project that aimed to understand how to enable a wider range of audiences to participate in a more diverse film culture.
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Cine Ricordi
Cine Ricordi is an online archive that allows users to explore the history of Italian cinema-going through a portal that reconstructs the historic cinema networks of eight major cities (Rome, Milan, Turin, Florence, Naples, Bari, Cagliari and Palermo).
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Aphra Behn
Aphra Behn (1640-89) was one of the most prolific and important authors of drama, fiction, verse, and translations in her period.
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Estoria de Espanna – Discovery of the Past
The principal aim of this project is to develop a digital exhibition of manuscripts of the Estoria de Espanna, a thirteenth-century chronicle of Spain, alongside physical exhibitions of the manuscripts in some of Spain’s leading institutions.
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Gersum Project
This project aims to understand Scandinavian influence on English vocabulary by examining the origins of up to 1,600 words in a corpus of Middle English poems from the North of England.
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Baudelaire Song Project
The Baudelaire Song Project will research and bring together for the first time all the song settings ever of Baudelaire’s poetry, looking at classical music and popular music settings, in French original and in translation, with music scores and in audio format.
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Linguistic DNA of Modern Western Thought
The aim of this project is to understand the evolution of early modern thought by modelling the semantic and conceptual changes which occurred in English discourse (c.1500-c.1800). The project will use information extraction techniques and data visualisation to identify lexical patterns in 250,000 texts.
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Digital Folk
Led by the University of Sheffield’s Department of Music with the University of Westminster’s Faculty of Media Arts & Design, this project aims to develop a new understanding of the ramifications of digital resources for development and change in the content, concept and practice of folk arts in contemporary England.
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Clerical Exile in Late Antiquity
Exploring how the banishment of hundreds of Christian clerics to a myriad of places all around the Mediterranean during the religious controversies of late antiquity shaped the institution of the Christian Church in this period and beyond.
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