EnergyREV User-Centred Interface
Providing evidence for scaling up smart local energy systems
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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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BBC Radio News Scripts
The BBC Archive includes the script for every radio news bulletin between the years c.1940 to 1990, totalling around 180,000 scripts (2.3 million pages).
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Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg / Dr James Brown (Research Associate – University of Sheffield)
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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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 is a three year project that seeks to understand how to enable a wider range of audiences to participate in a more diverse film culture.
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Jaina Prosopography
In the last two and a half millennia the itinerant Jaina mendicant tradition exerted an important influence on Indian culture and society.
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Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) / George-Andrei Ionita (Developer – The Digital Humanities Institute)
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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Tudor Chamber Books
Kingship, Court and Society: the Chamber Books of Henry VII and Henry VIII, 1485-1521
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Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) / Dr Iona Hine (Research Associate - University of Sheffield)
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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Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) / Dr James Brown (Research Associate – University of Sheffield)
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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