Humphry Davy’s Notebooks: How Poetry Helped Create Scientific Knowledge
Searchable transcriptions of five notebooks kept by the nineteenth-century chemist, Sir Humphry Davy, between 1795 and 1805.
Data type: images
Database of Mid-Victorian Illustration
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
Early English Laws
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.
England’s Immigrants, 1330-1550: Resident Aliens in the Middle Ages
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.
Classics and Class in Britain, 1789-1917
Collection of encounters between consciousness of social class and Greek & Latin Classics
Civil War Petitions
Civil War Petitions contains petitions to the state from veterans and their families for welfare payments as a result of injuries and bereavement sustained during the English Civil Wars. It aims to share information on the human costs of this devastating conflict, which continued to affect communities long after the fighting was over.
Data type: text
Bess of Hardwick’s 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.