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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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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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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 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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The Songwork Catalogue

Drama and Theatre Studies, Performance | dance, interviews, Judaism, performance, photographs, song, 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

History, Social History | gender studies, 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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Protestant Communities in the USSR

History, Social History | 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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Piston, Pen and Press

History, Social History | England, literature, nineteenth century, poetry, Scotland, songs, working class culture

“Welcome to the ‘Piston, Pen & Press’ database. 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

Languages, Linguistics | Africa, children's literature, grammar, 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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Augmented Vocality

Heritage Studies, Languages | linguistics, poetry

A searchable audio database of Early Irish and Old Norse words. The dataset includes more than 1,400 words and 9 poetic texts in Early Irish, and more than 3,000 words and phonemes and 9 poetic texts in Old Norse.

Data type: audio

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100 Ballads

Music, Social History | crime, Early Modern, England, folk music, seventeenth century, songs

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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