British Army Officers, 1790-1820
A case study of 40,000 British Army officers who served between 1790 and 1830
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C21 Editions
Scholarly Editing and Publishing in the Digital Age
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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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Intoxicating Spaces
The impact of new intoxicants on public spaces, consumption, and sociability in north-western Europe, c. 1600 – c. 1850
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Criminal Tattoos
Analysing criminal tattoos through data mining and visualisation. Funded by BA/Jisc Digital Research in the Humanities.
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100 Ballads
Hit Songs and their Significance in Seventeenth-Century England.
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Playing the Archive
Funded by the EPSRC through the Content Creation and Consumption in the Digital Economy call, the project addresses the ephemerality of practices and memories encoded in play.
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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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Casa Ricordi Letters
This project is producing a digital edition of the letters (15,000) written to Casa Ricordi, the world famous music publisher, during the 19th and 20th centuries by writers, singers and composers including Giuseppe Verdi, Giacomo Puccini, Franz Liszt, Ottorino Respighi, Jules Massenet, Alfredo Casella and Luigi Nono.
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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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Mark My Bird
The DHI worked with the University of Sheffield’s Department of Animal and Plant Sciences to develop a crowd-sourcing system that will enable the general public to identify key features on approx. 20,000 3D models of bird bills.
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Spotlight on the Digital
How discoverable are your digitised collections? The DHI developed a specification for a tool which would support discovery solutions for online research resources both at national and/or institutional level.
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Digital Panopticon
This project brings together genealogical, biometric and criminal justice datasets held in the UK and Australia in order to explore the impact of the different types of penal punishments on the lives of 90,000 people sentenced at The Old Bailey between 1780 and 1925.
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Intoxicants and Early Modernity
An interrogation of the production, trade, legislation, consumption and culture (social and material) of intoxicants throughout the early modern period using ontology modelling and data visualisations.
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Participating in Search Design: A Study of George Thomason’s English Newsbooks
This project used participatory design methods to understand how search is used within humanities research in order to improve search interfaces.
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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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Networks of Book Makers, Owners and Users in Late Medieval England
This project used network visualisation to advance knowledge of individuals, institutions and communities in both the medieval and the early modern periods which made and used books.
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Locating London’s Past
A GIS interface for mapping textual and artefactual data relating to the 17th and 18th centuries against early maps of London.
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Crime in the Community
Enhancing user engagement for teaching and research with the Old Bailey Online website.
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