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project: South Cadbury Environs Project
Grant Holder: Professor Gary Lock
The project is a multiperiod survey of the landscape within a 64 sq km centred on the Iron Age and Post Roman hillfort of Cadbury Castle, Somerset. Sampling localities and transects cover approximately 11 sq km of the study area.
The principal survey techniques have been gradiometry, test and shovel pitting, the first two applied uniformly over all target areas, the latter were soil conditions are suitable. [read more]
project: Cinemagazines and the projection of Britain
Grant Holder: Linda Kaye; Luis Carrasqueiro
The project will research the history and output of British cinemagazines, weekly or monthly information films produced between 1918 and 1982. It will explore the ways in which the cinemagazine was used to construct images and reinforce values of British life, particularly films for overseas distribution. The project will add details of 25,000 cinemagazine stories to the BUFVC’s existing British Universities Newsreel Database (BUND), creating a unified record of over 185,000 items. The project will also produce a Researcher’s Guide to British Cinemagazines publication. [read more]
project: The Forgotten Migrants: A Cultural History of Postwar British Migrants Who Returned 'Home' from Australia
Grant Holder: Dr Alistair Thomson
Migration histories often neglect return migration. More than a million Britons migrated to Australia in the peak years of migration between 1945 and 1971, the majority using the assisted passage migration scheme. A significant proportion returned to Britain. This research involves the collection and analysis of written and oral life stories by these return migrants. It will complement current La Trobe University (Melbourne) research involving the life stories of postwar British migrants still resident in Australia. [read more]
project: Tibetan visual history 1920-1950: an online resource
Grant Holder: Dr Clare Harris; Dr Elizabeth Edward; Haas Esset
The Pitt Rivers Museum and the British Museum together hold extraordinarily rich, and overlapping, collections of over 6,000 historical photographs of Tibet taken between 1920 and 1950. Conceived by their photographers as a unified visual resource, the photographs chart a crucial period in Tibetan history and in Anglo-Tibetan relations. More importantly the photographs constitute a vital record of Tibetan culture destroyed since the Chinese occupation. [read more]
project: Partonopeus de Blois: an Electronic Resource
Grant Holder: Professor Penny Eley
"Partonopeus de Blois" was one of the most popular romances composed in the 12th century, and played a key role in the development of Old French narrative literature. Analysis of the text is complicated by the fact that it exists in a number of different versions, which are difficult to study using a conventional printed edition. This project has produced an electronic resource that allows researchers to read and compare all the different versions in detail, without having to work from the original manuscripts (held in libraries from Yale to the Vatican) or microfilms. [read more]
project: The Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music (DIAMM)
Grant Holder: Professor A Wathey
The purpose of the Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music (DIAMM) is to obtain and archive directly-captured digital images of European sources of medieval polyphonic music. Where there is damage that makes these sources difficult to read, levels of digital restoration are also undertaken on copies of the original images to improve legibility and scholarly access. The project has created a new permanent electronic archive of these images, both to facilitate detailed study of this music and its sources, and to assure their permanent preservation. [read more]
project: Encoding an On-Line Electronic Scholarly Edition and Implementing an XML Prototype
Grant Holder: Professor Christopher Mulvey
The project aimed to program an on-line scholarly edition and implement an XML prototype meeting MLA’s guidelines for the electronic scholarly edition, and presenting full-text versions of all renditions to show evolution of a text to final states and devolution to original states. The first stage was to prepare a scholarly edition of William Wells Brown’s novel Clotel which provides the full text of all extant versions (those of 1853, 1860, 1864, and 1867) with explanatory annotation, textual-variant notes, and a scholarly apparatus. [read more]
project: A corpus-based study of speech, thought and writing presentation in contemporary spoken British English
Grant Holder: Professor Mick Short
The Lancaster Speech, Writing and Thought Presentation Spoken Corpus has been built as part of an AHRB-funded project to investigate the nature of speech, writing and thought presentation (SW&TP) in contemporary spoken British English. [read more]
project: The Anglo-Norman On-line Hub
Grant Holder: Professor Andrew Rothwell
Phase 1 of the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub project (2002-2004), funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Board under its Resource Enhancement Scheme, had the following aims and objectives:
to open up for on-line access significant resources that will advance research into the languages and society of medieval Britain and support university courses across a wide areas of medieval studies;
to develop, evaluate, deploy and propagate XML-based technologies that will be of service in many areas of Humanities computing worlwide. [read more]
project: Scottish Corpus of Texts and Speech (SCOTS)
Grant Holder: Professor John Corbett
SCOTS uses computer technology and the web to bring a unique electronic collection of Scots and Scottish English texts to scholars and the public. The resource contains written and spoken material, the latter with online audio/video clips, stored in a database along with extensive metadata. Linguists can investigate where particular words and phrases are used, and by whom. Displayed alongside the texts is a range of information about authors and speakers, so that it is possible to search for, e.g., “audio clips featuring Ayrshire women under 40”. [read more]