nineteenth century

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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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 group outside academia and accessing a selection of newly digitized theatre programmes, enabling this already valuable resource to engage in new ways with the public and the principal stakeholders, the British Library and the National Trust. The enhancements to this existing online database catalogue of one of the UK's most significant theatre archives, of over 20,000 archival documents, highlights the transatlantic and Antipodean theatre activities of Britain's most renowned performers of Shakespeare in the nineteenth century: Ellen Terry and Henry Irving. The database is accessible freely online.

Data type: text

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Décabase

Interpreting and Translation, Languages and Literature | French, nineteenth century, poetry, translation

A database of British Decadent poetry published in translation in French periodicals

Data type: text

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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 substantial printed collections, but the database also includes some of the hundreds of surviving single-sheet publications. 22 sources have been digitised and indexed complete.

Data type: text

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Crisis DB – US Political Violence Database

Economic and Social History, 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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