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Brecht into English: theoretical and applied approaches to cultural transmission

Drama and Theatre Studies | diaries, essays, interviews, letters, poetry, songs, translation

The Bibliography is a comprehensive listing of Bertolt Brecht’s works published in English, regularly updated, with currently over 4200 bibliographical entries. It includes all the major English-language editions of works from Great Britain and the United States, inviting comparisons of titles with multiple translations. Each text is entered as an individual item (single poems, songs, stories, plays, dialogues, interviews, essays, fragments, variants), while letters and journal entries are entered only as collections. If available, every entry includes the original German title and the exact citation for the original text in the 30-volume Brecht edition published in Germany (Berliner und Frankfurter Ausgabe, Aufbau and Suhrkamp Verlag, 1988-2000), indicated as GBA. As well, the Brecht Archive call number for the English language edition or text is provided (if available), indicated as BBA, and refers to the non-circulating collection housed at the Archive in Berlin. Many translations were licensed for republication or reprinting without modification by other publishers, especially in English-speaking countries such as India or South Africa. These editions have not been included in the bibliography.

Data type: text

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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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The Lands of the Normans in England

History, Social History | England, family history, France, Middle Ages

In 1204 King Philip Augustus of France conquered Normandy, thus breaking up the ‘Anglo-Norman realm’ created after the Norman conquest of England in 1066. The severing of connections between the two countries had profound implications for French and English identity and politics, but it has not received the detailed study that it merits. The Lands of the Normans project is based on the study of a sample of Anglo-Norman landowners, based on the single most important English source for the confiscations of 1204, the Rotulus de valore terrarum Normannorum. The project team traced the history of each of the lay families and estates that appear in this source through the surviving records, English and French, royal and private, before and after 1204. These records were entered into an online database, designed and created by the historical members of the project team in combination with the technical officers at the Humanities Research Institute. “The database contains details of over 2,000 individual documents collected from over 100 historical sources. Nearly 3,000 different people and places appear in the database, and there are over 13,500 links describing the relationships between these people and places. The Lands of the Normans database thus provides an introduction to a number of important Anglo-Norman families, including their appearances in royal and private records and access to automated reconstructions of the genealogies of each family and maps of landholding. We hope that this may encourage other historians to explore the potential benefits of Information Technology for their own research.

Data type: spatial, text

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Concepts Have Teeth, And Teeth That Bite Through Time

Art, Contemporary Art | anthropology, archaeology, Blackfoot, colonialism, ethnography, heritage, material culture, museums

The site features artists living on Blackfoot territory in Canada and in the U.K. who are connected with mootookakiossin.ca, a project that shares the knowledge from historical Blackfoot items held in British museum collections. In some cases, the connection is direct, such as Blackfoot artists who are creating new artworks informed by their ancestor’s items imagery and techniques. For all the artwork you will find here, Mootookakio’ssin supports artists in addressing the legacies of colonialism that museum practices can reveal, the relationship between physical and digital artworks, and how identity is entangled with these practices. While creating this site, we asked ourselves how the design could encourage an experience of the creative works that interrupted typical art-viewing like you might find at a gallery or museum as well as counter the disembodied experience of viewing art online. It was important to encourage interaction with the works so we added lots of paths for you to follow. We replaced straight lines with curving ones and tried to create a sense of depth and space. We really wanted to get beyond a digital exhibition space as just a virtual white wall.

Data type: image, text

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Humphry Davy’s Notebooks

History, History of Science | chemistry, notebooks

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

Data type: temporal, text

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Concert Programmes

Music | concert, program

The sheer number of individual programmes means that creating a union catalogue at item level is not a viable option in the short or medium term. Instead, the Concert Programmes Project aims to create an online database of concert programme holdings in the UK and Ireland at collection level to enable scholars and music lovers to locate material that may be relevant to their research and and interests, and library professionals to identify priorities for collection development and preservation.

Data type: spatial, text

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Early Modern Festival Books Database

Literature | books, Early Modern, festivals

The Early Modern Festival Books Database presents more than 3000 festival books published between 1500 and 1800 in 12 languages. These are printed accounts commissioned by kings and princes, by cities, and by the church to record such events as coronations, ceremonial entries into cities, ambassadorial visits, weddings, christenings, victory and peace celebrations, funerals, civic celebrations of all kinds, investitures of popes and cardinals, canonizations of saints and translations of relics, among others. The database is an expanded and fully revised version of the bibliographical and historical handbook Festivals and Ceremonies. A Bibliography of Works Relating to Court, Civic and Religious Festivals in Europe 1500-1800 by Helen Watanabe-O’Kelly and Anne Simon (London: Continuum, 2000). Festivals and Ceremonies not only provided bibliographic details of the works it listed, but also historical information about the festival the publication relates to, such as the occasion, its main actors, and the artists and genres involved. When this standard tool of festival research went out of print, it was decided not to reprint it in book form but to turn it into a freely available, fully searchable database and to use this opportunity not only to check the information it contained but to provide links to a digitized version of the texts, wherever such a version existed.

Data type: text

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England’s Immigrants

History, Social History | England, fifteenth century, fourteenth century, Middle Ages, sixteenth century

England’s Immigrants 1330-1550, a fully-searchable database containing over 64,000 names of people known to have migrated to England during the period of the Hundred Years’ War and the Black Death, the Wars of the Roses and the Reformation. The information within this database has been drawn from a variety of published and un-published records – taxation assessments, letters of denization and protection, and a variety of other licences and grants – and offers a valuable resource for anyone interested in the origins, destinations, occupations and identities of the people who chose to make England their home during this turbulent period.

Data type: temporal, text

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The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913

History, Social History | crime, Early Modern, eighteenth century, England, law, nineteenth century, seventeenth century, twentieth century

The Old Bailey Proceedings Online makes available a fully searchable, digitised collection of all surviving editions of the Old Bailey Proceedings from 1674 to 1913, and of the Ordinary of Newgate’s Accounts between 1676 and 1772. It allows access to 197,752 trials and biographical details of approximately 2,500 men and women executed at Tyburn, free of charge for non-commercial use. In addition to the text, accessible through both keyword and structured searching, this website provides digital images of all 190,000 original pages of the Proceedings and 4,000 pages of Ordinary’s Accounts, advice on methods of searching this resource, information on the historical and legal background to the Old Bailey court and its Proceedings, and descriptions of published and manuscript materials relating to the trials covered.

Data type: images, temporal, text

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