Heaton Map Project
A mobile, map-based guide to locations in Leeds connected to Dr John Deakin Heaton (1817-1880) and mentioned in his Journal. Heaton was a Leeds physician and promoter of provincial civic pride in nineteenth-century Britain.
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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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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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Wenxian Covenant Texts
Recording, searching and visualising scribal practises in the fifth-century BC Chinese Wenxian Covenant Texts.
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Sheffield Music Map
The DHI and the School of English worked with Sensoria Festival to develop a mobile application which provides users with access to a location-based guide to Sheffield’s musical heritage.
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Sheffield Participatory Arts Network
The Sheffield Participatory Arts Network (SPAN), set up in 2012, is an open network of community arts groups, music groups, and workshop leaders.
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History DMT
History DMT (Data Management Training and Guidance) aimed to integrate best practice, good principles, and skills of research data management within the postgraduate curriculum and among early career historians.
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CEELBAS Learning Centre
An assessment system aimed at advanced learners of Polish who need to continue language education at the postgraduate level, and are looking develop the comprehension skills to aid with their research.
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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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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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Kinecting Up the Past
Tis project explored the feasibility of using cheap consumer-grade technology such as Microsoft’s Kinect controller to capture environments and artefacts in 3-dimensions.
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Lane’s Masonic Records
John Lane’s Masonic Records, 1717-1894, listing all the lodges established by the English Grand Lodges and updated to provide information on lodges that came into existence after 1894.
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Q Cinema: Monetising Research-led Public Engagement at the Showroom Cinema
A collaborative project with Sheffield’s Showroom Cinema and the Dept of Sociological Studies to combine technology and high quality academic research in order to generate additional economic value from the cinema’s existing content and programming.
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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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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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