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Mapping Sculpture

Art, History of Art | Ireland, nineteenth century, sculpture, twentieth century, United Kingdom

Mapping Sculpture can be summed up as an investigation of sculptural practice that aims to reveal the numerous personal and professional connections underlying the production of sculpture. The project’s state of the art database provides the means of searching this complex web of connections.There are over 50,000 records in the database. This wealth of information can be used to answer many questions and will also suggest many new avenues for further investigation.

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Fife Place-Name Data

Heritage Studies, Languages | gaelic, Middle Ages, place names, Scotland

This was a pilot project to retroactively create an online database from the (purposefully laid-out) volumes of The Place-Names of Fife. It was successful, and allowed the researcher, Simon Taylor, and the systems developer, Brian Aitken, to work together on a prototype of what will become the full Scottish Place-Name database for the future (based on older models, which underlie the survey volumes).

Data type: spatial, text

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Singing in tone: Text-setting constraints in Southeast Asia

Languages, Linguistics | songs, Vietnam, Vietnamese

This dataset contains supplementary materials to the paper Tone-melody correspondence in Vietnamese popular song , published in the proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages [TAL-2016]. It contains CSV data collected from a corpus of 20 Vietnamese songs, as well as R code to replicate the analysis reported in the paper.

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Predicting Online Radicalisation

Social Psychology, Social Sciences | Daesh, ethnic minorities, extremism, Islam, social media, Twitter

IS tweets and baseline tweets.

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Manuscript Pamphleteering in Early Stuart England

History, Social 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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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, History of Theatre | 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.

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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.

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Ellen Terry and Edith Craig Database

Drama and Theatre Studies, Theatre and History | family history, letters, nineteenth century, Shakespeare, United Kingdom

A new and creative interactive interface to the AHRC Ellen Terry and Edith Craig Database has new search facilities, attractive to a new user group outside academia and accessing a selection of newly digitized theatre programmes, enabling this already valuable resource to engage in new ways with the public and the principal stakeholders, the British Library and the National Trust. The enhancements to this existing online database catalogue of one of the UK’s most significant theatre archives, of over 20,000 archival documents, highlights the transatlantic and Antipodean theatre activities of Britain’s most renowned performers of Shakespeare in the nineteenth century: Ellen Terry and Henry Irving. The database is accessible freely online.

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The Windrush Scandal in a Transnational and Commonwealth Context

History, Political History | Caribbean, discrimination, ethnic minorities, interviews, migration, oral history, race, twentieth century, twenty-first century, United Kingdom

From the Project Abstract on the UKRI Grant List website: The key outputs will be 60 oral history interviews which will be available electronically and a searchable database of existing oral history resources on the ‘Windrush generation’. 30 of the interviews will focus on the response of Caribbean governments and their representatives in London to the legal restrictions imposed on immigration to the UK from the Caribbean from the early 1960s, and the plight of those members of the diaspora community whose right to remain in the UK was challenged by the British state. The other 30 interviews will focus on members of the diaspora community, those who found themselves under threat of deportation or actually deported, and their supporters and legal and political representatives. The interviews will explore the extent to which the complexities and ambiguities of the law governing nationality exacerbated confusion around competing notions of Caribbean and British identity and belonging. They will seek to identify the extent to which members of the diaspora community were aware of changes to their rights and obligations brought about by successive acts of parliament from 1962, and the stages by which it became clear that significant numbers of people were having their right to remain in the UK challenged. This oral history research will be supplemented by archival research in collections in the UK and the Caribbean. Selected documents will be digitized and made available on the project website alongside the recordings of the interviews and supporting explanatory materials including a series of podcasts produced by the project team.

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