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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OED Concept Interface
This proof-of-concept project aims to build and test a search interface which will enable staff at the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) to identify word sense usage more accurately by utilising Linguistic Concept Modelling.
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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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Criminal Tattoos
Analysing criminal tattoos through data mining and visualisation. Funded by BA/Jisc Digital Research in the Humanities.
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Lexicon of Medieval Nordic Law
A Nordic-English lexicon devoted to the vast array of legal terminology found in medieval Scandinavian texts.
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100 Ballads
Hit Songs and their Significance in Seventeenth-Century England.
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Dr Rosie Shute (Research Associate - The Digital Humanities Institute) / HEIF Knowledge Exchange Fund
Immersive Services for Driverless Cars
When people no longer drive their cars, what will they do instead?
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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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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 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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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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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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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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Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) / Dr Caroline Ardrey (Research Associate - University of Sheffield)
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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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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Whites Writing Whiteness
Letters, Domestic Figurations & Representations of Whiteness in South Africa 1770s-1970s
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