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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Manuscripts Online – Written Culture from 1000 to 1500
Federated searching of primary resources relating to written and early printed culture in Britain during the medieval period.
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Ola Nordmann Goes West
A Norwegian journey to the Promised Land. This project used a 3D virtual world to reconstruct the experience of immigration in the 19th century from a Norway village to New York.
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Bess of Hardwick’s Letters
A fully searchable, online edition of the letters of Elizabeth Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury (also known as Bess of Hardwick).
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Olive Schreiner Letters Project
Complete transcriptions of approximately 7,000 letters of Olive Schreiner, the feminist, socialist writer and social theorist Olive Schreiner (1855-1920).
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Locating London’s Past
A GIS interface for mapping textual and artefactual data relating to the 17th and 18th centuries against early maps of London.
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Dialect in British Fiction 1800-1836
This project described and analysed the representation of dialect in 100-120 novels published between 1800 and 1836.
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Late Medieval English Scribes
An online catalogue of all scribal hands (identified or unidentified) which appear in Middle English, literary manuscripts.
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Manor Lodge Project
Interactive 3D reconstructions of the the medieval and sixteenth-century hunting lodge of Sheffield.
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John Foxe Project
A new, definitive edition of John Foxe’s Acts and Monuments of the English Martyrs, based on a textual reconstruction of the four editions published in Foxe’s lifetime.
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Personal Signage through Augmented Reality
Using the latest augmented reality for mobile devices, this pilot study aimed to create a private tour guide able to give directions specifically tailored to suit individuals.
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In Mozart’s Words
A complete, four-language, annotated searchable edition of Mozarts´ letters, offering users first-hand insight into the workings of his remarkable musical career.
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