Scillonian Dialect Project
This project investigated the variety of English spoken by the population of the Isles of Scilly (a group of islands 28 miles off Land’s End, Cornwall).
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Protestants Behind the Iron Curtain
A project which seeks to understand religious belief, identity, and narrative in Russia and Ukraine since 1945 using first-hand accounts.
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Enemy of the People: Visual Representations of Chiang Kai-shek
Visual depictions of Chiang Kai-shek from various forms of propaganda and other art from the 1940s through to the 2000s, with a particular concentration on negative images of Chiang.
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Database of Mid-Victorian Illustrations
A database which contains the records and images of 868 literary illustrations published in or around 1862, providing bibliographical and iconographical details, as well as the images themselves.
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England’s Immigrants, 1330-1550
Recording and analysing evidence of foreigners who chose to make their lives and livelihoods in England in the era of the Hundred Years War, the Black Death and the Wars of the Roses.
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Ola Nordmann Goes West
A Norwegian journey to the Promised Land. This project used a 3D virtual world to reconstruct the experience of immigration in the 19th century from a Norway village to New York.
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Bess of Hardwick’s Letters
A fully searchable, online edition of the letters of Elizabeth Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury (also known as Bess of Hardwick).
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Dialect in British Fiction 1800-1836
This project described and analysed the representation of dialect in 100-120 novels published between 1800 and 1836.
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Late Medieval English Scribes
An online catalogue of all scribal hands (identified or unidentified) which appear in Middle English, literary manuscripts.
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John Foxe Project
A new, definitive edition of John Foxe’s Acts and Monuments of the English Martyrs, based on a textual reconstruction of the four editions published in Foxe’s lifetime.
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Richard Brome Online
An online edition of the Collected Works of the Caroline dramatist, Richard Brome, which combines dramatic textual scholarship with theatre practice.
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Online Froissart
An online edition of the manuscripts of Jean Froissart’s Chronicles of the Hundred Years´ War, one of the most influential works of late medieval French literature.
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AHRC Technical Appendix: Review and Recommendations
This commissioned research reviewed the AHRC’s Technical Appendix and made recommendations for a ‘Technical Plan’ on behalf of the Network of Expert Centres.
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Archive of Exile
Combining academic and practice-based research to explore the notions of ‘exile’ and ‘archive’ with creative arts practitioners.
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Proceedings of the Central Criminal Court
This project, a continuation of the Old Bailey Proceedings Online, added a further 100,000 trials and 70 million words of text, extending the period covered from 1834 to 1913.
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Lands of the Normans in England (1204-44)
Exploring the impact on the Anglo-French aristocracy of the collapse of the ‘Anglo-Norman realm’ in 1204 through the families and properties recorded in contemporary documents.
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Armadillo: Historical Data Mining
This project used a set of online resources in 18th century British social history to evaluate the potential benefits of Semantic Web technology for Arts and Humanities researchers.
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e-Science Workshops: The Access Grid in Collaborative Arts and Humanities Research
The aim of this series of workshops was to evaluate the usefulness of the Access Grid for collaborative arts and humanities research.
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Virtual Vellum
Virtual Vellum produced a prototype image viewer making possible the retrieval, manipulation and annotation/hotspotting of very-high-resolution image datasets.
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Origins of Early Modern Literature: Recovering Mid-Tudor Writing for a Modern Readership
An annotated online catalogue of mid-Tudor writing, a period which saw the Reformation, the consolidation of the Tudor state, and the rise of English as a national language.
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