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.
MoreGothic tours is an annotated map of country homes, and other sites of historic interest, which have played an important part in shaping the Gothic imaginary from the eighteenth century to the present day.
MoreLed by the University of Sheffield’s Department of Music with the University of Westminster’s Faculty of Media Arts & Design, this project aims to develop a new understanding of the ramifications of digital resources for development and change in the content, concept and practice of folk arts in contemporary England.
MoreThe Eighteenth-Century English Phonology Database (ECEP) is an online database designed for the study of eighteenth-century English phonology, which will allow users to investigate the social, regional and lexical distribution of phonological variants in eighteenth-century English.
MoreExploring how the banishment of hundreds of Christian clerics to a myriad of places all around the Mediterranean during the religious controversies of late antiquity shaped the institution of the Christian Church in this period and beyond.
MoreThis project involved the School of English, Department of Sociological Studies and the DHI working with Film Hub North and the BFI to develop a Strategic Plan for developing audience engagement in national cinema.
MoreThis AHRC-funded seminar series was part of the Connected Communities Theme. Led by Keele University, it aimed to explore and understand the historical and contemporary cultures, communities and connections in the HIV Sector.
MoreA PhD studentship network that comprises three interrelated projects which seek to explore methods that are emergent within their home disciplines as well as potentially transformative for research in the arts and humanities.
MoreA collaborative R&D project between the Folger Shakespeare Library and the DHI to develop a federated semantic search and discovery service for the Folger’s multiple, online resources.
MoreA 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.
MoreHow 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.
MoreThis 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.
MoreAn 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.
MoreLetters, Domestic Figurations & Representations of Whiteness in South Africa 1770s-1970s
MoreRecording, searching and visualising scribal practises in the fifth-century BC Chinese Wenxian Covenant Texts.
MoreThe 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.
MoreThe Sheffield Participatory Arts Network (SPAN), set up in 2012, is an open network of community arts groups, music groups, and workshop leaders.
MoreHistory 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.
MoreAn 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.
MoreThis project used participatory design methods to understand how search is used within humanities research in order to improve search interfaces.
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