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Spaces of Hope: Peoples’ Plans

Historical Geography, Human Geography | social-networks, twentieth century, twenty-first century, United Kingdom

SPACES OF HOPE: the Hidden History of Community Led Planning in the UK has explored the often-overlooked ways in which local people and organisations have come together to improve their physical and social environments. Since the 1960s a rich but hidden history has emerged of communities campaigning, drawing up their own land-use plans, owning, occupying and developing sites and initiating creative community projects. Bringing together universities, artists and archivists and working in partnership with the Town and Country Planning Association, SPACES OF HOPE: PEOPLES’ PLANS is an AHRC-funded research project that aims to reveal these histories and spark debate about how lessons can be applied to current community place-shaping.

Data type: images, spatial, temporal, text

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Reframing Vivien Leigh

Film History, Theory and Criticism, Media | cinema, Film and cinema arts studies, Media studies, Museum collections

The omeka site is the central hub for the majority of project outputs and has created a significant new interactive public platform collating information and new research about Vivien Leigh in the South West, hosting a wide range of digitised artefacts and exhibitions. The site has created digital tools for collaborating museums The Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Topsham Museum, including 3D models of dress artefacts from their collections and new public-facing tools such as a Storymap and a series of podcasts foregrounding their work and their holdings that can be utilised by them in their own digital and on-site platforms. The site currently hosts 186 catalogued items; 6 collections; 47 tags, and 6 exhibits. The database constitutes a detailed new resource for public and academic users able to access detailed metadata on original archival artefacts connected to the region; to search the database through keywords making their own pathways through the content; to view artefacts in different contexts through exhibitions, Storymap and podcasts outputs, and to interact with images, audio, text, 3D platforms, interactive maps and videos.

Data type: images, spatial, text

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Richard Brome Online

Drama and Theatre Studies, Theatre and History | Early Modern, England, plays, seventeenth century

Richard Brome Online is an online edition of the Collected Works of the Caroline dramatist, Richard Brome. The edition not only makes the texts accessible to scholars and theatre practitioners, but also begins to explore their theatricality visually, serving as inspiration to encourage more frequent staging of Brome's works.

Data type: images, text, video

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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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Russian Visual Arts: Art Criticism in Context, 1814-1909

Art History, Visual Arts | art, nineteenth century, Russia, russian, twentieth century

Russian Visual Arts: Art Criticism in Context, 1814-1909 is an online research archive documenting the growth of diverse forms of commentary on the visual arts (particularly painting) in Russia from the early ninteenth- to early twentieth centuries. The archive contains over 100 hundred primary texts, in Russian and in many cases in new English translations, as well as over 300 digital images of journal and newspaper reproductions of works of art. A comprehensive editorial structure places these rare and/or previously unpublished works in their cultural and historical context. This editorial work includes introductions to the critics and the texts, new annotations to the translations, a glossary, a timeline of the development of art criticism, and an extensive bibliographical database.

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Pinter Histories and Legacies: The Impact of Harold Pinter’s Work on the Development of British Stage and Screen Practices (1957-2017).

Drama and Theatre Studies, Theatre and History | cinema, England, plays, radio, screenplays, television, twentieth century

The ambition of this database has been to capture every instance of a professional production of a work by Harold Pinter in the UK since 1957 alongside a comprehensive catalogue of all broadcasts of his work for radio and television, and films for which he has written a screenplay. In addition, we have included plays, films and so on that Pinter directed or acted in.

Data type: images, text

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Newport Medieval Ship

Archaeology, Maritime Archaeology | 3D, 3d-graphics, 3dModeling, archeology, medieval-archaeology

The Newport Ship is the most substantial late medieval vessel excavated and recovered in Britain. The ship was discovered during development on the west bank of the River Usk in Newport, South Wales in 2002. More than twenty-three metres of the clinker-built ship were recovered, along with significant artefact and environmental assemblages. Finds point to strong Iberian connections during the active life of the ship, which arrived in Newport, in the Severn Estuary, after the spring of AD 1468. The dismantling and recovery of the ship has enabled detailed recording using innovative 3D digital techniques and approaches to hypothetical reconstruction. This archive makes available this digital data along with digitised versions of site records, post-excavation documentation of the ship and specialist reports and catalogues.

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Manuscript Pamphleteering in Early Stuart England

Economic and Social History, History | Early Modern, England, manuscripts, pamphlets, seventeenth century

This project aims to survey the vast hidden archive of early Stuart England's manuscript pamphlets. In collaboration with the British Library, this project will construct a database of manuscript pamphlet texts, bibliographic information, and digital images. This will allow users to search transcriptions of the pamphlets; analyze the distribution of copies through time and space; and see how such materials were presented: large and small, elaborate and plain, professional and amateur. The project will conduct additional research in the private papers of Francis Russell, fourth earl of Bedford, who was a major political figure of the early Stuart era as well as a reader and collector of manuscript pamphlets.

Data type: images, text

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Mackintosh Architecture: Context, Making and Meaning

Architecture History, Theory and Practice, Design | 19th-century, 20th-century, architecture

'Mackintosh Architecture' provides a richly-illustrated Catalogue of all known architectural projects by Charles Rennie Mackintosh. The site also provides entries for projects by the practice, John Honeyman, Keppie / Honeyman, Keppie Mackintosh during the Mackintosh years 1889–1913; images and data from the office record books; a catalogue raisonné of over 1200 drawings by Mackintosh and the practice; analytical and contextual essays; biographies of over 400 clients, colleagues, contractors and suppliers; timeline; glossary; and bibliography.

Data type: images, text

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Humphry Davy’s Notebooks: How Poetry Helped Create Scientific Knowledge

History, History of Science/Medicine/Technology | chemistry, eighteenth century, England, nineteenth century, notebooks

Searchable transcriptions of five notebooks kept by the nineteenth-century chemist, Sir Humphry Davy, between 1795 and 1805.

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