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French Oral Narrative Corpus

This is a fully transcribed and annotated corpus of oral narrative in Modern French. There are 87 stories told by 18 storytellers. The narratives are live recordings of storytelling in authentic contexts. All form part of the recorded collection of the Conservatoire de Litterature Orale in Vendome, France, with permission from the Artistic Director. The narratives are transcribed and annotated using the conventions of the Text Encoding Initiative. A full set of tags has been designed to annotate a variety of syntactic and stylistic features and these are annotated throughout the corpus. Full metadata is contained in the Header of each document: this includes information on the tagset, details of the recording contexts, as well as sociolinguistic information on the storytellers (regional origin, age, educational profile, gender). The corpus can be accesse via the website or via the Oxford Text Archive.

Data type: audio, text

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Extreme weather in the UK: past, present and future – event details from the TEMPEST database

Historical Geography, Human Geography | 14th century, 15th century, 16th-century, 17th-century, 18th-century, 19th-century, climate change, historical-records, United Kingdom

TEMPEST was designed as a freely accessible and user-friendly database resource on the UK’s weather and climate history. TEMPEST is comprised of narrative accounts of extreme weather events of all types, extracted from documentary materials located in a range of archival repositories in the UK (consequentially, please see the quality statement note below concerning data issues). The information has been extracted from a wide range of documents, including letters, diaries, church records, school log-books and many others. The entries span more than 400 years - some as early as 1346 - of weather history and relate to places across the UK, though the data search was focused in five case-study regions: Central England, Southwest England, East Anglia, Wales, and Northwest Scotland.

Data type: spatial, text

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Fife Place-Name Data

Language Variation and Change, Linguistics | Gaelic, geography, medieval, 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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Famine and Dearth Database

Economic and Social History, 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.

Data type: text

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Database of Kurdish Dialects

Linguistics, Linguistics (General) | dialectology, kurdish

MySQL database online freely accessible, contained transcribed sentences in Kurdish, tagged for function and location, with English sentence translations.

Data type: text

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Décabase

Interpreting and Translation, Languages and Literature | French, nineteenth century, poetry, translation

A database of British Decadent poetry published in translation in French periodicals

Data type: text

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Early Modern Festival Books Database

Linguistics, Textual Editing and Bibliography | books, Early Modern, eighteenth century, seventeenth century, sixteenth century

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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Ellen Terry and Edith Craig Database

Drama and Theatre Studies, Theatre and 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.

Data type: text

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England’s Immigrants, 1330-1550: Resident Aliens in the Middle Ages

Economic and Social History, History | England, fifteenth century, fourteenth century, medieval-history, migration, sixteenth century, war and conflict

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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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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