twenty-first century

British Black and Asian Shakespeare Performance Database

Drama and Theatre Studies, History of Theatre | ethnic minorities, performance, Shakespeare, twentieth century, twenty-first century, United Kingdom

The database, edited and principally compiled by Dr. Jami Rogers, contains the records of over 1100 productions of Shakespeare to which British black or Asian actors, directors and other production personnel have contributed. The database spans the time period of 1930 – 2015 and tracks casting patterns for ethnic minority performers. It contains information about the production, the media reaction to the BAME personnel’s work within these productions, and lists the roles actors have played in the plays recorded. It provides a record of achievements and a statistical framework for analysing shifting professional opportunities over 85 years. The database is a major theatre history tool as well as having the ability to track casting policies from 1930 – 2015.

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Makeright Interviews

Criminology, Social Sciences | criminal justice, education, England, interviews, twenty-first century

In 2017 Erika Renedo completed interviews with Makeright inmates (who agreed to participate) linked to semi-structured interview research questions agreed with Lorraine Gamman, who also created and developed ethics protocols and consent forms which were approved by UAL’s ethic committee. These interviews were transcribed at the end of 2017 and sent to the MoJ for permission to publish. In Spring 2018 we gained permission via Keith Jarvis at HMP Thameside to publish and have loaded interviews online via the Makeright website as a data set and form of evaluation (https://makerightorg.wordpress.com/interviews/). We have also loaded films by Stretch who were commissioned by DACRC as a further form of evaluation (https://makerightorg.wordpress.com/images-and-videos/).

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Classics and Class in Britain, 1789-1917

Classics, Social History | class, education, eighteenth century, England, Greek, Latin, nineteenth century, seventeenth century, twentieth century, twenty-first century, working class

Collection of encounters between consciousness of social class and Greek & Latin Classics

Data type: audio, text, video

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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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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.

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Afterlives of Urban Muslim Asia: Muslim Perspectives on Non-Muslim Minorities in Aleppo, and Life Histories of Aleppine Armenians in Kuwait, 2022-2024

Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Social Sciences | Christianity, ethnic minorities, ethnography, interviews, Islam, Middle East, questionnaires, twenty-first century, war and conflict, working class

Questionnaires in Arabic were distributed electronically to Muslim residents and former residents of popular / working-class (sha‘bi) quarters of Aleppo through an Arab Muslim former resident of the Hilluk district of Aleppo who had migrated to Gaziantep during the Syrian civil war (2012-). Life history interviews were also conducted with prominent Aleppine Armenian members of the Armenian community in Kuwait: the priest of the Armenian church in Aleppo, and two leading Syrian Armenian merchants who run successful businesses in Kuwait and play a prominent role in the Armenian community there.

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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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Crisis DB – US Political Violence Database

History, Social History | eighteenth century, nineteenth century, twentieth century, twenty-first century, United States, war and conflict

Collection of historical records of violent incidents in the United States, spanning from 1782 to the present day. The dataset is categorized by date, incident type, subtypes, casualties, geographical location of the violence, documented fatalities, and the authoritative sources from which this data is derived. Additionally, each entry includes a detailed narrative describing the specific circumstances surrounding the violent incident.

Data type: spatial, temporal

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Spaces of Hope: Peoples’ Plans

Social Sciences, Urban Studies | community, twentieth century, twenty-first century, United Kingdom

“SPACES OF HOPE: the Hidden History of Community Led Planning in the UK has explored the often-overlooked ways in which local people and organisations have come together to improve their physical and social environments. Since the 1960s a rich but hidden history has emerged of communities campaigning, drawing up their own land-use plans, owning, occupying and developing sites and initiating creative community projects. Bringing together universities, artists and archivists and working in partnership with the Town and Country Planning Association, SPACES OF HOPE: PEOPLES’ PLANS is an AHRC-funded research project that aims to reveal these histories and spark debate about how lessons can be applied to current community place-shaping.”

Data type: images, spatial, temporal, text

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