History

The People of Medieval Scotland, 1093-1371 (PoMS3)

History, Political History | medieval-history, Scotland

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 Scotland from 1093-1371. PoMS was first launched in 2010, when it covered the period 1093-1286, and extended to 1314 by 2014. The Community of the Realm in Scotland project (COTR) has not only extended the database to incorporate the data from all royal documents from 1314-1371 but has also upgraded the database so that it can continue to be used. PoMS '3' has been available since September 2018.

Data type: text

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The People of 1381

Economic and Social History, History | 14th century, historical-records, medieval-history

The database is comprised of 3 main sections, Sources, Participants, and Incidents. The source describes where the information is found, e.g. The National Archives, and how to locate it. It contains the text in English and sometimes in the original language. The source text has been used to construct listings of Participants and Locations. Participants comprise everyone who was affected by the rising - not only those accused of being rebels, but also victims, jurors, justices and lawyers who took part in prosecutions arising from the revolt. The database includes information on relationships between individuals, occupations and background biographical information from sources such as manorial records. Locations comprise both places where incidents occurred during the rising and places associated with a particular individual. Note that although a source associates a place with a participant, this does not mean that they lived there - medieval sources frequently use a variety of locations in identifying people. One rebel is described variously as being of Edenbridge in Kent, Carshalton in Surrey and Winchester in Hampshire but actually lived in Southampton. There may be multiple entries in the database for the same person or location as an entry exists for each source the person or incident is found in.

Data type: spatial, text

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The Oral History of Twentieth Century Mongolia

Economic and Social History, History | 20th-century, asia, Central Asia, Mongolia, oral history

A collection of over 600 interviews in Mongolia with English translations / summaries, available for public use.

Data type: text

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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 the late sixth to the late eleventh century. It is based on a systematic examination of the available written sources for the period, including chronicles, saints’ Lives, charters, libri vitae, inscriptions, Domesday Book and coins; and is intended to serve as a research tool suitable for a wide range of users with an interest in this period.

Data type: text

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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 1913, and of the Ordinary of Newgate’s Accounts between 1676 and 1772. It allows access to 197,752 trials and biographical details of approximately 2,500 men and women executed at Tyburn, free of charge for non-commercial use. In addition to the text, accessible through both keyword and structured searching, this website provides digital images of all 190,000 original pages of the Proceedings and 4,000 pages of Ordinary’s Accounts, advice on methods of searching this resource, information on the historical and legal background to the Old Bailey court and its Proceedings, and descriptions of published and manuscript materials relating to the trials covered.

Data type: images, temporal, text

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The Lands of the Normans in England

History, Political History | England, France

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. The severing of connections between the two countries had profound implications for French and English identity and politics, but it has not received the detailed study that it merits. The Lands of the Normans project is based on the study of a sample of Anglo-Norman landowners, based on the single most important English source for the confiscations of 1204, the Rotulus de valore terrarum Normannorum. The project team traced the history of each of the lay families and estates that appear in this source through the surviving records, English and French, royal and private, before and after 1204. These records were entered into an online database, designed and created by the historical members of the project team in combination with the technical officers at the Humanities Research Institute. “The database contains details of over 2,000 individual documents collected from over 100 historical sources. Nearly 3,000 different people and places appear in the database, and there are over 13,500 links describing the relationships between these people and places. The Lands of the Normans database thus provides an introduction to a number of important Anglo-Norman families, including their appearances in royal and private records and access to automated reconstructions of the genealogies of each family and maps of landholding. We hope that this may encourage other historians to explore the potential benefits of Information Technology for their own research.

Data type: spatial, text

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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 of as much of Duval’s published work as possible, organised according to date and details of publication.

Data type: images

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Spread of agriculture across Europe

Cultural History, History | agriculture, archaeology

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 735 early Neolithic sites in Europe, the Near East and Anatolia.

Data type: spatial, temporal

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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. Use our site to search individual convict life archives, explore and visualise data, and learn more about crime and criminal justice in the past.

Data type: images, temporal, text

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Seshat – General Variables

History, Political History | historical-data, language, religion

This section of the Seshat database focuses on the essential aspects of polity organization and dynamics. It includes data on alternative name, original name, and capital, which provide information on how polities were identified. Variables such as degree of centralization, peak years, and duration reveal the administrative, temporal, and structural characteristics of past societies. Additionally, this section captures the relationships and interactions between polities, including preceding entity, succeeding entity, and relationship to preceding entity. Religious and cultural contexts are represented through variables like religion, religious tradition, and scale of supracultural interaction. Furthermore, linguistic and territorial attributes are documented, including language, language genus, linguistic family, and UTM zone.

Data type: temporal

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