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Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)

Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) / ArtsEkta

Historic Houses, Global Crossroads

A collaborative project revealing how historic sites can position themselves as global crossroads, enabling multiple publics to connect their lived experience with them.

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Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) / Guyana SPEAKS

Voices in Slavery’s Archive

Law, Place and Testimony in British Guiana

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Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) / In Progress

Global Socio-Economic Rights, Local Contexts

Work in East Africa and Western Europe, 1880 to the Present

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Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) / Completed

Community-led impact for rural land rights in South Africa

A multilingual best practice handbook

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Archives+, Manchester Central Library / Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)

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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Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) / Completed

British Army Officers, 1790-1820

A case study of 40,000 British Army officers who served between 1790 and 1830

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Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) / Completed

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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Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) / Completed

From telegrams to Twitter

Archives of letters sent to party leaders will uncover impact of political correspondence

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Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) / Completed

C21 Editions

Scholarly Editing and Publishing in the Digital Age

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Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) / Cardiff University

Spaces of HOPE

The hidden history of community-led planning in the UK.

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Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) / Cardiff University

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) / Completed

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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Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) / Completed

100 Ballads

Hit Songs and their Significance in Seventeenth-Century England.

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Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) / Completed

European Cinema Audiences

European Cinema Audiences is a comparative research project that explores European film cultures in the 1950s.

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Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) / Audience Agency

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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Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) / Completed

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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Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) / Completed

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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Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) / Biblioteca Menéndez Pelayo

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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Aberystwyth University / Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)

Imprint

A forensic and historical investigation of fingerprints on medieval seals using documents held in Lincoln Cathedral, Exeter Cathedral, Hereford Cathedral, Westminster Abbey and the National Library of Wales.

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Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) / Cardiff University

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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