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The Historical Music of Scotland Databases: Prints

History of Music, Music | eighteenth century, music sheets, nineteenth century, Scotland, seventeenth century, tunes, violin

Details of over 200 Scottish printed sources of vernacular violin music from before 1850, along with images and indexes of 22 books from the...

Data type: images

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The Mian & Kilivila Collection

Languages, Linguistics | grammar, Melanesia, Papua New Guinea, Trobriand Islands

The Mian and Kilivila Collection contains information pertaining to the nominal classification systems of two indigenous languages of Papua New Guinea, Mian and Kilivila....

Data type: images, text

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PRoMS: The Production and Reading of Musical Sources

History of Music, Music | Europe, fifteenth century, sixteenth century, typography

metadata resource containing mise-en-page information on all extant manuscripts (c.300) and editions (c.80) of Western polyphony from c.1480 to c.1530

Data type: text

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Irish Song Project

History of Music, Music | Early Modern, eighteenth century, fifteenth century, Ireland, Middle Ages, nineteenth century, seventeenth century, sixteenth century, songs

This is e a digital catalogue of 230 songs from the medieval period to the early nineteenth century, categorised according to generic type, musical...

Data type: audio, images, text

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Late Medieval English Scribes

English Literature, Literature | England, handwriting, Middle Ages, poetry, prose

Late Medieval English Scribes is an online catalogue of all scribal hands (identified or unidentified) which appear in the manuscripts of the English writings...

Data type: images, text

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Civil War Petitions

History, Social History | England, seventeenth century, war and conflict

Civil War Petitions contains petitions to the state from veterans and their families for welfare payments as a result of injuries and bereavement sustained...

Data type: text

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Open Acoustic Impulse Response (Open AIR) Library

Composition, Music | video games

A collection of modelled and measured acoustic data from locations across the world, with data available in a variety of spatial audio formats. Also...

Data type: audio

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Classics and Class in Britain, 1789-1917

Classics, Social History | class, education, eighteenth century, England, Greek, Latin, nineteenth century, seventeenth century, twentieth century, twenty-first century, working class

Collection of encounters between consciousness of social class and Greek & Latin Classics

Data type: audio, text, video

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Décabase

English Literature, Literature | France, French, nineteenth century, poetry, translation

A database of British Decadent poetry published in translation in French periodicals

Data type: text

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Famine and Dearth Database

History, Social History | Bengali, eighteenth century, fiction, Hindi, India, non-fiction, pamphlets, periodicals, Persian, plays, poetry, seventeenth century, sixteenth century, surveys, translation, United Kingdom

The Famine and Dearth database contains searchable transcriptions of over 700 multilingual primary sources relating to situations of famine and dearth in early modern...

Data type: text

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The Marie Duval Archive

History, Social History | cartoons, gender studies, illustration, nineteenth century, United Kingdom, women's studies

Marie Duval was one of the most unusual, pioneering and boisterous cartoonists of the nineteenth century. This archive offers for scrutiny high resolution scans...

Data type: images

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Makeright Interviews

Criminology, Social Sciences | criminal justice, education, England, interviews, twenty-first century

In 2017 Erika Renedo completed interviews with Makeright inmates (who agreed to participate) linked to semi-structured interview research questions agreed with Lorraine Gamman, who...

Data type: text

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British Black and Asian Shakespeare Performance Database

Drama and Theatre Studies, History of Theatre | ethnic minorities, performance, Shakespeare, twentieth century, twenty-first century, United Kingdom

The database, edited and principally compiled by Dr. Jami Rogers, contains the records of over 1100 productions of Shakespeare to which British black or...

Data type: text

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A Big Data History of Music

History of Music, Music | Early Modern, eighteenth century, library, manuscripts, music sheets, nineteenth century, seventeenth century, sixteenth century, twentieth century

British Library dataset of printed music, freely available for download and analysis, as a result of the data cleaning undertaken in this project.

Data type: text

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The Riddle Ages

English Literature, Literature | Latin, Middle Ages, Old English, riddles, translation

The project website, launched in autumn 2020, made available texts and translations of two riddle collections: the 95 Old English riddles of the Exeter...

Data type: text

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