poetry

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.

Data type: text

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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

Data type: text

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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.

Data type: images, text

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Muslim Women’s Popular Fiction Database

Literature, Media Studies | autobiography, cinema, English, ethnic minorities, fiction, gender, poetry, stories, television, twenty-first century, women's studies

This website, developed by the project PI, is a continually updated database of works of genre fiction, film and TV by Muslim women creators. Initially developed to support a third-year module, over the course of the AHRC project it has been updated and further developed. As of 8 March 2024 it contains 455 entries across 20 genres, published between 2002 and 2024.

Data type: text

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Piston, Pen and Press

History, Social History | England, literature, nineteenth century, poetry, Scotland, songs, working class culture

“Welcome to the ‘Piston, Pen & Press’ database. Here you can search or browse our records of industrial workers and literary culture across Scotland and the North of England. We have entries for individuals, for literary works (many including transcriptions of poems, songs or prose extracts), and for associations that sponsored literary activities and were connected to industry.”

Data type: audio, spatial, text, video

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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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Augmented Vocality

Heritage Studies, Languages | linguistics, poetry

A searchable audio database of Early Irish and Old Norse words. The dataset includes more than 1,400 words and 9 poetic texts in Early Irish, and more than 3,000 words and phonemes and 9 poetic texts in Old Norse.

Data type: audio

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Baudelaire Song Project

Music | France, nineteenth century, poetry, songs

The Baudelaire Song Project researches and brings together for the first time all the song settings ever of Baudelaire’s poetry, looking at classical music and popular music settings, in French original and in translation, with music scores and in audio format.

Data type: spatial, text

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