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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 incipit and other features and thus permitting for the first time comparison of songs distant in time but linked across history by melody, form or audience. Facsimile images of manuscript and early printed editions are provided, as also modern musical annotation and commentaries on each song.

Data type: audio, images, text

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Humphry Davy’s Notebooks: How Poetry Helped Create Scientific Knowledge

History, History of Science/Medicine/Technology | chemistry, eighteenth century, England, nineteenth century, notebooks

Searchable transcriptions of five notebooks kept by the nineteenth-century chemist, Sir Humphry Davy, between 1795 and 1805.

Data type: images

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Early English Laws

Law and Legal Studies, Legal History | England, law

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.

Data type: images, text

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Exhibitions of the Royal Photographic Society 1870-1915

Photography (History, Theory and Practice), Visual Arts | 19th-century, 20th-century, photos

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 images of the cataloge pages themselves, supplemented with images scanned from the contemporary journal 'Photograms of the Year'. The database sits behind a Web site that offers browsing of the catalogue data, images and page scans, simple quick searches by key word and advanced boolean based searching.

Data type: images

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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 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

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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 full apparatus of references and by images of those buildings and sites.

Data type: images, spatial, text

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Chinese Independent Film Archive

Film History, Theory and Criticism, Media | asia, china, cinema

This is a bilingual film database in which the information of the films collected by the project are presented in both English and Chinese, including synopsis, release year, director's biography, director's statement, posters, etc. This information is available to the pubic.

Data type: images, text, video

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Bess of Hardwick’s Letters

Economic and Social History, History | 16th-century, Early Modern, England, 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.

Data type: images, temporal, text

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100 Ballads

Music, Traditional Music | crime, Early Modern, England, music, seventeenth century

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 investigate through recordings, images and a wealth of other materials. Whether you are interested in music, art, love, gender, tragedy, politics, family life, crime, history, humour or death, you will find something to engage you here.

Data type: audio, images, text

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