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, audio recitations and musical performances. The crisis was caused by the American Civil War and, as well as poems from British local newspapers, poems published in America are included commenting on the relationship between the US, Britain, cotton, and slavery.
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.
Late Medieval English Scribes is an online catalogue of all scribal hands (identified or unidentified) which appear in the manuscripts of the English writings of five major Middle English authors: Geoffrey Chaucer, John Gower, John Trevisa, William Langland and Thomas Hoccleve.
The Famine and Dearth database contains searchable transcriptions of over 700 multilingual primary sources relating to situations of famine and dearth in early modern India and Britain. The archive contains texts in ten different languages including Persian, Bengali and Hindi as well as English, and offers English translations for the majority of texts. These texts cover a wide range of genres, including chronicle histories, gazetteers, official correspondence, legislation, pamphlets, periodicals, plays, poetry, surveys, and fiction and non-fiction prose.
This Database contains currently 198 Profiles of individual works of ancient Jewish literature, described according to the criteria and structure of the Inventory of Structurally Important Literary Features of Anonymous and Pseudepigraphic Jewish Literature of Antiquity (which is the subject of a forthcoming monograph, and published as a document on the Project website). Profiles tend to be between 6,000 and 10,000 words long each. A number of other texts will be added (those are already identified by greyed out names). These include a number of (a) individual Tractates of the Mishnah, Tosefta, or Talmuds, which are structurally very much similar to others already represented by a Profile in the Database or (b) individual Targums for which the same holds, and whose literary structures were the subject of a theme issue of Aramaic Studies (vol. 9:1, 2011) devoted to the Project methodology and database. The missing Profiles will be produced in the course of 2012 by A. Samely, P. Alexander and R. Hayward, in order to complete the Database. The completed Database will have some 312 Profiles.
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 the major English-language editions of works from Great Britain and the United States, inviting comparisons of titles with multiple translations. Each text is entered as an individual item (single poems, songs, stories, plays, dialogues, interviews, essays, fragments, variants), while letters and journal entries are entered only as collections. If available, every entry includes the original German title and the exact citation for the original text in the 30-volume Brecht edition published in Germany (Berliner und Frankfurter Ausgabe, Aufbau and Suhrkamp Verlag, 1988-2000), indicated as GBA. As well, the Brecht Archive call number for the English language edition or text is provided (if available), indicated as BBA, and refers to the non-circulating collection housed at the Archive in Berlin. Many translations were licensed for republication or reprinting without modification by other publishers, especially in English-speaking countries such as India or South Africa. These editions have not been included in the bibliography.
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 Irish, and more than 3,000 words and phonemes and 9 poetic texts in Old Norse.
