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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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John Foxe’s The Acts and Monuments Online

History, Religious History | books, Christianity, Early Modern, England, sixteenth century

This Variorum Edition concentrates on the four English editions of Foxe's martyrology published in London during his own lifetime: those of 1563 ; 1570 ; 1576 and 1583. There were, of course, many editions of the work published after Foxe's death in 1587 and, like any great and controversial book, the text acquired a dynamic and a history of its own. However, the objective of this edition is to recover Foxe's sources and strategy as he sought to collect and present his picture of the protestant reformation as a transforming experience in the religious history of England and Europe, and its pre-history within the broadest historical and doctrinal context that he could conceive of. It is the dynamics of the text during the twenty years from 1563 to 1583 which this edition seeks to recover.

Data type: images, text

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Late Medieval English Scribes

English Language and Literature, Languages and Literature | England, handwriting, medieval, 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 of five major Middle English authors: Geoffrey Chaucer, John Gower, John Trevisa, William Langland and Thomas Hoccleve.

Data type: images, text

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Exhibitions of the Royal Photographic Society 1870-1915

Photography (History, Theory and Practice), Visual Arts | 19th-century, 20th-century, photos

This is a complete record of the annual exhibition catalogues of the Royal Photographic Society 1870-1915, stored as mySQL data files and high resolution images of the cataloge pages themselves, supplemented with images scanned from the contemporary journal 'Photograms of the Year'. The database sits behind a Web site that offers browsing of the catalogue data, images and page scans, simple quick searches by key word and advanced boolean based searching.

Data type: images

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Early English Laws

Law and Legal Studies, Legal History | England, law

The Early English Laws project publishes online and in print new editions and translations of all English legal codes, edicts, and treatises produced up to the time of Magna Carta 1215.

Data type: images, text

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Database of Mid-Victorian Illustration

Installation and Sound Art (History, Theory and Practice), Visual Arts | 19th-century, England, illustration, illustrations

This dataset consists of 868 scanned images of wood-engraved illustrations from the year 1862. These images can be viewed at high quality using Zoomify/Javascript platforms, as well as interrogated against bibliographic descriptors and iconographic descriptions. A key output of this phase of the project is the updating of the platform, enhanced features and the mapping of Iconclass codes that allow the database to be searched in different languages.

Data type: images

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Corpus of Scottish Medieval Parish Churches

Architecture History, Theory and Practice, Design | architecture, Christianity, medieval-archaeology, medieval-history, Scotland

This database provides narrative accounts of the salient historical information on the history and architecture of the individual buildings and sites, accompanied by a full apparatus of references and by images of those buildings and sites.

Data type: images, spatial, text

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Chinese Independent Film Archive

Film History, Theory and Criticism, Media | asia, china, cinema

This is a bilingual film database in which the information of the films collected by the project are presented in both English and Chinese, including synopsis, release year, director's biography, director's statement, posters, etc. This information is available to the pubic.

Data type: images, text, video

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Bess of Hardwick’s Letters

Economic and Social History, History | 16th-century, Early Modern, England, letters

Bess of Hardwick (c.1521/2 or 1527-1608) is one of Elizabethan England's most famous figures. She is renowned for her reputation as a dynast and indomitable matriarch and perhaps best known as the builder of great stately homes like the magnificent Hardwick Hall and Chatsworth House. The story of her life told to date typically emphasises her modest birth, her rise through the ranks of society, her four husbands, each of greater wealth than the last, and her ambitious aggrandisement of her family. Bess of Hardwick's letters, which number almost 250 items of correspondence, bring to life her extraordinary story and allow us to eavesdrop on her world. Her letters allow us to reposition Bess as a complex woman of her times, immersed in the literacy and textual practices of everyday life, as her correspondence extends from servants, friends and family, to queens and officers of state.

Data type: images, temporal, text

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