History
project: Medieval settlements and landscapes in the Whittlewood area
Grant Holder: Professor Christopher Dyer
A multi-disciplinary investigation of medieval settlement and landscape in a carefully selected area of England, building on a succesful pilot project. The existence of both villages and hamlets gives an opportunity to explain the divergence between these settlement forms in an environmental and social context. [read more]
project: Pockets of history: production and consumption of women's tie-on pockets in Britain from 1690-1914
Grant Holder: Ms Barbara Burman
The project charts the production and consumption of women’s tie-on pockets in Britain over two centuries. These textile artefacts, familiar to Lucy Locket, were popular before the introduction of handbags in the later nineteenth century but are now largely unknown. Their capacious form, plain or decorated, and their varied contents exemplified everyday work, tastes, and skills of women across the social spectrum. They were made at home throughout the period by individuals for their own use and also manufactured commercially from the mid-18th century. [read more]
project: Reconstructing the Quseiri Arabic Documents (RQAD)
Grant Holder: Professor Dionisius Agius
The research objective is to read or reconstruct the Arabic documents found at the harbour town of Quseir on the Egyptian Red Sea coast during the Ayyubid and Mamluk periods (13th-15th centuries)
ie:
a) to evaluate the texts combined with archeological enquiry;
b) to examine the content and context within the framework of the long distance trade and pilgrim traffic from Quesir as a chief port of the Red Sea region and its trade contacts with the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean.
c) to raise public and scholarly awareness about the significance of the documents as a source of academic, ed [read more]
project: Cataloguing the archives of the Trades Union Congress, 1970-90
Grant Holder: Mrs Christine Woodland
The aim of cataloguing the records of the Trades Union Congress is to make their materials more widely and easily accessible to researchers. The TUC dealt with a whole range of union related matters such as wages, disputes, health and safety in the workplace and union representation. They were also involved in social and political issues such as racism and sexual discrimination. Their labour connections stretched accross the world from New Zealand to Nicaragua and Finland to the Falklands. [read more]