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’).
MoreThe 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).
MoreThis 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.
MoreThe impact of new intoxicants on public spaces, consumption, and sociability in north-western Europe, c. 1600 – c. 1850
MoreAn 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.
MoreAnalysing criminal tattoos through data mining and visualisation. Funded by BA/Jisc Digital Research in the Humanities.
MoreThis Derbyshire Record Office project will open up the hidden stories of Derbyshire’s miners contained within the archive of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) Derbyshire area, as well as shedding light on the trade union activities of the NUM.
MoreA Nordic-English lexicon devoted to the vast array of legal terminology found in medieval Scandinavian texts.
MoreHit Songs and their Significance in Seventeenth-Century England.
MoreWhen people no longer drive their cars, what will they do instead?
MoreEuropean Cinema Audiences is a comparative research project that explores European film cultures in the 1950s.
MoreFunded 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.
MoreBeyond 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.
MoreIn the last two and a half millennia the itinerant Jaina mendicant tradition exerted an important influence on Indian culture and society.
MoreThe DHI applied concept modelling techniques to a curated corpus of more than 6 million YouTube comments associated with over 1,000 videos in order to examine representations of militarized industries.
MoreCine 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).
MoreThis 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.
MoreWays of Being in the Digital Age encompassed research into how digital technology mediates our lives, and of the way technological and social change co-evolve and impact on each other.
MoreAphra Behn (1640-89) was one of the most prolific and important authors of drama, fiction, verse, and translations in her period.
MoreKingship, Court and Society: the Chamber Books of Henry VII and Henry VIII, 1485-1521
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