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100 Ballads

Music, Traditional Music | crime, Early Modern, England, music, seventeenth century

Broadside ballads were single-sheet songs that sold for a penny a piece. This website concentrates on over 100 resoundingly successful examples that you can investigate through recordings, images and a wealth of other materials. Whether you are interested in music, art, love, gender, tragedy, politics, family life, crime, history, humour or death, you will find something to engage you here.

Data type: audio, images, text

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The Songwork Catalogue

Drama and Theatre Studies, Performance and Live Art | dance, interviews, Judaism, music, performance, photos, twenty-first century

The project archive of the 2017 Judaica laboratory phase contains approximately 2TB of audiovisual materials: primarily audiovisual recordings generated by the DCTV method, as well as recorded audio conversations, photos, and video essays.

Data type: audio, images, text, video

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War Widows’ Stories

Economic and Social History, History | gender, interviews, oral history, twentieth century, United Kingdom, war and conflict, women's studies, World War II

The War Widows' Stories website hosts all transcripts and recordings of the oral history interviews we have conducted in the course of the War Widows' Stories project, and they can be access and downloaded for free by anyone. Recordings can be streamed or downloaded; transcripts can be read and searched online or downloaded as PDFs.

Data type: audio, text

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The Poetry of the Lancashire Cotton Famine (1861-65)

Economic and Social History, History | 19th-century, american-civil-war, class, poetry

This database brings together for the first time poems written in response to the Lancashire Cotton Famine of 1861-65. They are presented with commentary, audio recitations and musical performances. The crisis was caused by the American Civil War and, as well as poems from British local newspapers, poems published in America are included commenting on the relationship between the US, Britain, cotton, and slavery.

Data type: audio, text

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The Cultural History of the British Woodcraft Movement

Applied Arts (History, Theory and Practice), Visual Arts | 20th-century, folklore, interviews

5 oral history interviews recorded by in 2016 by Annebella Pollen for the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded project The Cultural History of the British Woodcraft Movement 1916-2016. The object of this project was to create a permanent history of the Woodcraft movement through life stories of those who participated in the organisations as children or adult members. These organisations included, but were not limited to, The Kindred of the Kibbo Kift and the Order of Woodcraft Chivalry. The following audio recordings and associated documentation have been deposited at the British Library: • 5 oral history interviews (9 PCM WAV files, recorded at 44.1kHZ, 16 bit) • 5 content summaries, one per interview (.docx) • 5 original signed recording agreements, one per interview (paper copies).

Data type: audio

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Protestants Behind the Iron Curtain: Religious Belief, Identity, and Narrative in Russia and Ukraine since 1945

Economic and Social History, History | Christianity, court cases, interviews, Latvia, Protestantism, Russia, twentieth century, Ukraine, USSR

This project examines the experience of Baptist and Pentecostal communities in the USSR.

Data type: audio, images, 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 supported with a set of online anechoic recordings and acoustic analysis tools.

Data type: audio

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Piston, Pen and Press

Economic and Social History, History | England, fiction, music, nineteenth century, non-fiction, Scotland, working class

Here you can search or browse our records of industrial workers and literary culture across Scotland and the North of England. We have entries for individuals, for literary works (many including transcriptions of poems, songs or prose extracts), and for associations that sponsored literary activities and were connected to industry.

Data type: audio, spatial, text, video

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Morphological Complexity in Nuer

Linguistics, Morphology and Phonology | Africa, lexicon, translation

Online morphological lexicon of Nuer nouns and verbs, showing inflectional paradigms, dialectal variation, morphological analysis. Accompanied by sound files.

Data type: audio, text

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Irish Song Project

History of Music, Music | Early Modern, eighteenth century, fifteenth century, irish, medieval-music, music, nineteenth century, seventeenth century, sixteenth century

This is e a digital catalogue of 230 songs from the medieval period to the early nineteenth century, categorised according to generic type, musical incipit and other features and thus permitting for the first time comparison of songs distant in time but linked across history by melody, form or audience. Facsimile images of manuscript and early printed editions are provided, as also modern musical annotation and commentaries on each song.

Data type: audio, images, text

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