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Who Were the Nuns?
Economic and Social History, History | 17th-century, 18th-century, Christianity, religion, women's studies, womens-history
The data is derived from surviving manuscript and printed sources from the English convents in exile. Where membership records are missing or have gaps,...
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Data type: text
Vernacular Aristotelianism in Renaissance Italy Database
Classical Reception, Classics | 15th century, 16th-century, 17th-century, Philosophy, Ethics & Religion
The Vernacular Aristotelianism in Renaissance Italy Database (VARI 2.0) is a searchable catalogue of Aristotelian works written or published in Italian between 1400 and...
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Data type: text
Universal Short Title Catalogue
The Universal Short Title Catalogue (USTC) is a project aimed at bringing together information on all books published in Europe in the first age...
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Data type: text
Whittingehame College Old Boy Interviews
Cultural History, History | England, ethnic minorities, interviews, Judaism, Middle East, migration, twentieth century
Whittingehame College was a Jewish boys' school located in Brighton and Hove between 1931 and 1958 and in Handcross Park from 1958 until 1967....
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Data type: video
War Widows’ Stories
Economic and Social History, History | gender, interviews, oral history, twentieth century, United Kingdom, war and conflict, women's studies, World War II
The War Widows' Stories website hosts all transcripts and recordings of the oral history interviews we have conducted in the course of the War...
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UK RED
English Language and Literature, Languages and Literature | autobiography, diary, eighteenth century, fifteenth century, interviews, letters, nineteenth century, seventeenth century, sixteenth century, twentieth century, United Kingdom
The Reading Experience Database, 1450-1945 (RED), housed and developed at the OU is the world's largest database about reading habits. An online, open-access project...
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Data type: text
The Windrush Scandal in a Transnational and Commonwealth Context
History, Political History | 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...
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Data type: text
The Songwork Catalogue
Drama and Theatre Studies, Performance and Live Art | dance, interviews, Judaism, music, performance, photos, 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...
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The Riddle Ages
English Language and Literature, Languages and Literature | Latin, medievalLatin, Old English, translation
The project website, launched in autumn 2020, made available texts and translations of two riddle collections: the 95 Old English riddles of the Exeter...
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Data type: text
The Redress of the Past: Historical Pageants in Britain, 1905-2016
Drama and Theatre Studies, Theatre and History | music, performance, twentieth century, United Kingdom
The database contains entries of over 550 pageants (and growing). These list a wealth of information about individual historical pageants, sometimes in great detail....
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The Poetry of the Lancashire Cotton Famine (1861-65)
This database brings together for the first time poems written in response to the Lancashire Cotton Famine of 1861-65. They are presented with commentary,...
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The Oral History of Twentieth Century Mongolia
A collection of over 600 interviews in Mongolia with English translations / summaries, available for public use.
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Data type: text
The People of Medieval Scotland, 1093-1371 (PoMS3)
The People of Medieval Scotland is a database containing information about over 22,000 individuals recorded in over 10,000 documents to have survived from medieval...
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Data type: text
The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne
The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne will achieve a complete reassessment of the sermons of John Donne (1572-1631), with a new...
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Data type: text
The Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England (PASE)
Economic and Social History, History | eighth century, eleventh century, England, medieval, ninth century, seventh century, sixth century, tenth century
The Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England (PASE) is a database which aims to provide structured information relating to all the recorded inhabitants of England from...
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Data type: text
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Tales of the Frontier: political representations and practices inspired by Hadrian’s Wall
Archaeology, Landscape and Environmental Archaeology | ancient-roman, ancient-world, architecture, England, photos
A database of photographs of Hadrian's Wall taken during the course of the project.
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Data type: images
Newport Medieval Ship
The Newport Ship is the most substantial late medieval vessel excavated and recovered in Britain. The ship was discovered during development on the west...
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Vernacular Aristotelianism in Renaissance Italy Database
Classical Reception, Classics | 15th century, 16th-century, 17th-century, Philosophy, Ethics & Religion
The Vernacular Aristotelianism in Renaissance Italy Database (VARI 2.0) is a searchable catalogue of Aristotelian works written or published in Italian between 1400 and...
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Data type: text
Classics and Class in Britain, 1789-1917
Classical Reception, Classics | 17th-century, 20th-century, 21st-century, class, education, eighteenth century, England, Greek, Latin, nineteenth century, working class
Collection of encounters between consciousness of social class and Greek & Latin Classics
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Mackintosh Architecture: Context, Making and Meaning
'Mackintosh Architecture' provides a richly-illustrated Catalogue of all known architectural projects by Charles Rennie Mackintosh. The site also provides entries for projects by the...
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Corpus of Scottish Medieval Parish Churches
Architecture History, Theory and Practice, Design | architecture, Christianity, medieval-archaeology, medieval-history, Scotland
This database provides narrative accounts of the salient historical information on the history and architecture of the individual buildings and sites, accompanied by a...
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The Songwork Catalogue
Drama and Theatre Studies, Performance and Live Art | dance, interviews, Judaism, music, performance, photos, 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...
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The Redress of the Past: Historical Pageants in Britain, 1905-2016
Drama and Theatre Studies, Theatre and History | music, performance, twentieth century, United Kingdom
The database contains entries of over 550 pageants (and growing). These list a wealth of information about individual historical pageants, sometimes in great detail....
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Richard Brome Online
Richard Brome Online is an online edition of the Collected Works of the Caroline dramatist, Richard Brome. The edition not only makes the texts...
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Pinter Histories and Legacies: The Impact of Harold Pinter’s Work on the Development of British Stage and Screen Practices (1957-2017).
Drama and Theatre Studies, Theatre and History | cinema, England, plays, radio, screenplays, television, twentieth century
The ambition of this database has been to capture every instance of a professional production of a work by Harold Pinter in the UK...
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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...
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Data type: text
British Black and Asian Shakespeare Performance Database
Drama and Theatre Studies, Theatre and History | 20th-century, 21st-century, ethnic minorities, performance, Shakespeare, 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...
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Data type: text
Who Were the Nuns?
Economic and Social History, History | 17th-century, 18th-century, Christianity, religion, women's studies, womens-history
The data is derived from surviving manuscript and printed sources from the English convents in exile. Where membership records are missing or have gaps,...
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Data type: text
Universal Short Title Catalogue
The Universal Short Title Catalogue (USTC) is a project aimed at bringing together information on all books published in Europe in the first age...
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Data type: text
Whittingehame College Old Boy Interviews
Cultural History, History | England, ethnic minorities, interviews, Judaism, Middle East, migration, twentieth century
Whittingehame College was a Jewish boys' school located in Brighton and Hove between 1931 and 1958 and in Handcross Park from 1958 until 1967....
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Data type: video
War Widows’ Stories
Economic and Social History, History | gender, interviews, oral history, twentieth century, United Kingdom, war and conflict, women's studies, World War II
The War Widows' Stories website hosts all transcripts and recordings of the oral history interviews we have conducted in the course of the War...
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The Windrush Scandal in a Transnational and Commonwealth Context
History, Political History | 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...
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Data type: text
The Poetry of the Lancashire Cotton Famine (1861-65)
This database brings together for the first time poems written in response to the Lancashire Cotton Famine of 1861-65. They are presented with commentary,...
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The Oral History of Twentieth Century Mongolia
A collection of over 600 interviews in Mongolia with English translations / summaries, available for public use.
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Data type: text
The People of Medieval Scotland, 1093-1371 (PoMS3)
The People of Medieval Scotland is a database containing information about over 22,000 individuals recorded in over 10,000 documents to have survived from medieval...
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Data type: text
The Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England (PASE)
Economic and Social History, History | eighth century, eleventh century, England, medieval, ninth century, seventh century, sixth century, tenth century
The Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England (PASE) is a database which aims to provide structured information relating to all the recorded inhabitants of England from...
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Data type: text
The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913
Economic and Social History, History | court cases, 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...
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The Marie Duval Archive
Economic and Social History, History | cartoons, gender, illustration, nineteenth century, United Kingdom, women's studies
Marie Duval was one of the most unusual, pioneering and boisterous cartoonists of the nineteenth century. This archive offers for scrutiny high resolution scans...
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Data type: images
The Lands of the Normans in England
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....
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The Digital Panopticon: The Global Impact of London Punishments, 1780-1925
Economic and Social History, History | Australia, colonialism, court cases, crime, eighteenth century, England, law, nineteenth century, twentieth century
This [dataset] allows you to search millions of records from around fifty datasets, relating to the lives of 90,000 convicts from the Old Bailey....
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Spread of agriculture across Europe
A dataset comprising of the spatio-temporal dynamics of the diffusive spread of an agricultural package. The data is made up of radiocarbon data from...
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Seshat – Warfare Variables (MilTech)
This section of the historical database delves into the tools, strategies, and innovations that shaped military capabilities in past polities. It catalogs a wide...
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Data type: temporal
Spaces of Hope: Peoples’ Plans
Historical Geography, Human Geography | social-networks, 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...
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UK RED
English Language and Literature, Languages and Literature | autobiography, diary, eighteenth century, fifteenth century, interviews, letters, nineteenth century, seventeenth century, sixteenth century, twentieth century, United Kingdom
The Reading Experience Database, 1450-1945 (RED), housed and developed at the OU is the world's largest database about reading habits. An online, open-access project...
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Data type: text
The Riddle Ages
English Language and Literature, Languages and Literature | Latin, medievalLatin, Old English, translation
The project website, launched in autumn 2020, made available texts and translations of two riddle collections: the 95 Old English riddles of the Exeter...
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Data type: text
The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne
The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne will achieve a complete reassessment of the sermons of John Donne (1572-1631), with a new...
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Data type: text
The Origins of Early Modern Literature: Recovering Mid-Tudor Writing for a Modern Readership
English Language and Literature, Languages and Literature | books, Early Modern, England, fiction, letters, music, non-fiction, plays, sixteenth century
Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, this project aims to redress the critical neglect of mid-Tudor writing, a period which saw the...
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Data type: text
The Online Froissart: A Searchable Electronic Edition
Languages and Literature, Medieval Literature | books, England, fourteenth century, France, illustrations, manuscripts, non-fiction
Jean Froissart’s Chroniques cover the period from around 1326 to around 1400 and are the single most important contemporary prose narrative about the first...
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The James Madison Carpenter Collection Online Catalogue
Ethnography and Anthropology, Languages and Literature | England, ethnography, folklore, irish, music, performance, Scotland, twentieth century, United States, Wales
The James Madison Carpenter Collection is a major collection of traditional song and drama, plus some items of traditional instrumental music, dance, custom, narrative...
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Data type: text
The Gersum Project: The Scandinavian Influence on English Vocabulary
The Gersum Project, funded by the AHRC, aims to understand Scandinavian influence on English vocabulary by examining the origins of more than 900 words...
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Data type: text
Late Medieval English Scribes
English Language and Literature, Languages and Literature | England, handwriting, medieval, 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...
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Iona’s Namescape: Place-Names and Their Dynamics in Iona and Its Environs
Iona is a site of exceptional historical, archaeological, and religious interest, and has been since its foundation as a monastery around AD 563. Despite...
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Data type: spatial
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...
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Estoria de Espanna Digital
The Estoria de Espanna is an extensive thirteenth-century history of Spain composed under the direction of Alfonso X of Castile and Leon (reigned 1252-1284)....
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Data type: text
Décabase
Interpreting and Translation, Languages and Literature | French, nineteenth century, poetry, translation
A database of British Decadent poetry published in translation in French periodicals
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Data type: text
Brecht into English: theoretical and applied approaches to cultural transmission
German, including Dutch and Yiddish, Languages and Literature | books, diary, essay, german, interviews, letters, plays, poetry, 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...
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Data type: text
Makeright Interviews
Criminal Law and Criminology, Law and Legal Studies | 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...
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Data type: text
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...
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Language of Bindings
Information and Knowledge Management, Library and Information Studies | Book and print history, book-history, books, lexicon, library-data
The Language of Bindings Thesaurus (LoB) is intended to provide a consistent and agreed terminology to be used by anybody working with historic books,...
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Data type: text
The Mian & Kilivila Collection
The Mian and Kilivila Collection contains information pertaining to the nominal classification systems of two indigenous languages of Papua New Guinea, Mian and Kilivila....
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Loss of Inflection Database
The Loss of Inflection Database is a digital repository of examples of language change from 50 languages, each involving the loss of inflectional contrasts...
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Data type: text
Morphological Complexity in Nuer
Online morphological lexicon of Nuer nouns and verbs, showing inflectional paradigms, dialectal variation, morphological analysis. Accompanied by sound files.
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Fife Place-Name Data
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,...
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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...
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Data type: text
Dinka_BorDialects_2010to2012_controlled_VerbForms
The dataset consists mostly of speech recordings. At the center are 1766 elicited Dinka utterances (wav format), collected through controlled elicitation from 14 speakers...
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Data type: audio
Database of Kurdish Dialects
MySQL database online freely accessible, contained transcribed sentences in Kurdish, tagged for function and location, with English sentence translations.
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Data type: text
Augmented Vocality: Recomposing the Sounds of Early Irish and Old Norse
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...
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Data type: audio
Reframing Vivien Leigh
Film History, Theory and Criticism, Media | cinema, Film and cinema arts studies, Media studies, Museum collections
The omeka site is the central hub for the majority of project outputs and has created a significant new interactive public platform collating information...
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Muslim Women’s Popular Fiction Database
Media, Media and Communication Studies | autobiography, books, cinema, English, ethnic minorities, fiction, gender, poetry, 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....
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Data type: text
Chinese Independent Film Archive
This is a bilingual film database in which the information of the films collected by the project are presented in both English and Chinese,...
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The Historical Music of Scotland Databases: Prints
History of Music, Music | eighteenth century, music, nineteenth century, Scotland, seventeenth century
Details of over 200 Scottish printed sources of vernacular violin music from before 1850, along with images and indexes of 22 books from the...
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Data type: images
The Historical Music of Scotland Databases: Manuscripts
History of Music, Music | eighteenth century, music, nineteenth century, Scotland, seventeenth century
A comprehensive catalogue of 27 Scottish manuscript sources of violin music from before 1750, with around 3500 tunes all searchable by name, Theme Code...
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Data type: text
The Baudelaire Song Project
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...
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Singing in tone: Text-setting constraints in Southeast Asia
This dataset contains supplementary materials to the paper Tone-melody correspondence in Vietnamese popular song , published in the proceedings of the 5th International Symposium...
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Data type: text
PRoMS: The Production and Reading of Musical Sources
metadata resource containing mise-en-page information on all extant manuscripts (c.300) and editions (c.80) of Western polyphony from c.1480 to c.1530
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Data type: text
Open Acoustic Impulse Response (Open AIR) Library
A collection of modelled and measured acoustic data from locations across the world, with data available in a variety of spatial audio formats. Also...
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Data type: audio
Irish Song Project
History of Music, Music | Early Modern, eighteenth century, fifteenth century, irish, medieval-music, music, nineteenth century, seventeenth century, sixteenth century
This is e a digital catalogue of 230 songs from the medieval period to the early nineteenth century, categorised according to generic type, musical...
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HEartS Professional Survey: Charting the effects of COVID-19 lockdown 1.0 on working patterns, income, and wellbeing among performing arts professionals in the United Kingdom (April-June 2020)
These data were collected using the HEartS Professional Survey from performing arts workers in the United Kingdom in April-June 2020. HEartS Professional was designed...
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Data underpinning ‘A map of the pibroch landscape, 1760–1841’
Music, Traditional Music | eighteenth century, music, nineteenth century, Scotland, seventeenth century
This database includes bibliographical and summary details of over 200 printed sources of Scottish fiddle music from before 1850. Most of the sources are...
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Data type: text
Concert Programmes Project
The sheer number of individual programmes means that creating a union catalogue at item level is not a viable option in the short or...
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100 Ballads
Broadside ballads were single-sheet songs that sold for a penny a piece. This website concentrates on over 100 resoundingly successful examples that you can...
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A Big Data History of Music
History of Music, Music | 16th-century, 17th-century, 20th-century, eighteenth century, library, manuscripts, nineteenth century
British Library dataset of printed music, freely available for download and analysis, as a result of the data cleaning undertaken in this project.
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Data type: text
Database for the Analysis of Anonymous and Pseudepigraphic Jewish Texts of Antiquity
Judaism, Theology, Divinity and Religion | ancient-documents, ancient-world, fiction, Judaism, poetry
This Database contains currently 198 Profiles of individual works of ancient Jewish literature, described according to the criteria and structure of the Inventory of...
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Data type: text
The Cultural History of the British Woodcraft Movement
5 oral history interviews recorded by in 2016 by Annebella Pollen for the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded project The Cultural History...
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Data type: audio
Russian Visual Arts: Art Criticism in Context, 1814-1909
Russian Visual Arts: Art Criticism in Context, 1814-1909 is an online research archive documenting the growth of diverse forms of commentary on the visual arts...
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Mapping Sculpture
Mapping Sculpture can be summed up as an investigation of sculptural practice that aims to reveal the numerous personal and professional connections underlying the...
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Data type: text
Exhibitions of the Royal Photographic Society 1870-1915
This is a complete record of the annual exhibition catalogues of the Royal Photographic Society 1870-1915, stored as mySQL data files and high resolution...
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Data type: images
Database of Mid-Victorian Illustration
Installation and Sound Art (History, Theory and Practice), Visual Arts | 19th-century, England, illustration, illustrations
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...
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Data type: images