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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. Kilivila has a single system of classifiers, with a great number of distinctions, while Mian has a dual system, which combines four genders and six classifiers. The Digital Collection on this website permits users to gain a greater understanding of these systems by exploring images of Mian and Kilivila objects and people. Users are also able to test what they have learnt about the classification systems of these two languages by taking the online Quiz.

Data type: images, 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 Book and the 63 Latin riddles known as the Bern Riddles. In addition to providing new translations and texts (with notes about previous editions and manuscript information), the project team produced commentary posts about each riddle’s proposed solutions, literary features and historical context. In 2021, the project team made available a further four Latin riddle collections: the 12 anonymous Lorsch riddles, 20 riddles by Boniface, 40 riddles by Tatwine and 60 riddles by Eusebius. In total, the website currently hosts 290 texts/translations and 168 commentary posts. A further 100 riddles by Aldhelm are to follow. In addition to original texts/translations, we have made available guest translations of riddles into other languages, including: Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin and Serbian, Indonesian and Spanish.

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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.

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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 Asian actors, directors and other production personnel have contributed. The database spans the time period of 1930 – 2015 and tracks casting patterns for ethnic minority performers. It contains information about the production, the media reaction to the BAME personnel’s work within these productions, and lists the roles actors have played in the plays recorded. It provides a record of achievements and a statistical framework for analysing shifting professional opportunities over 85 years. The database is a major theatre history tool as well as having the ability to track casting policies from 1930 – 2015.

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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 also created and developed ethics protocols and consent forms which were approved by UAL’s ethic committee. These interviews were transcribed at the end of 2017 and sent to the MoJ for permission to publish. In Spring 2018 we gained permission via Keith Jarvis at HMP Thameside to publish and have loaded interviews online via the Makeright website as a data set and form of evaluation (https://makerightorg.wordpress.com/interviews/). We have also loaded films by Stretch who were commissioned by DACRC as a further form of evaluation (https://makerightorg.wordpress.com/images-and-videos/).

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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 India and Britain. The archive contains texts in ten different languages including Persian, Bengali and Hindi as well as English, and offers English translations for the majority of texts. These texts cover a wide range of genres, including chronicle histories, gazetteers, official correspondence, legislation, pamphlets, periodicals, plays, poetry, surveys, and fiction and non-fiction prose.

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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

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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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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 of five major Middle English authors: Geoffrey Chaucer, John Gower, John Trevisa, William Langland and Thomas Hoccleve.

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