England
project: Harmony and controversy in 17th-century scientific thought. John Wallis (1616-1703) on grammar, logic and music theory
Grant Holder: Dr David Cram
This project is investigating questions concerning language, logic, musical theory and related topics in the writings and correspondence of John Wallis FRS (1616-703). It will produce critical editions of the correspondence and the non-mathematical works of one of the most fascinating figures in seventeenth-century England. [read more]
project: Identification of the Scribes Responsible for Copying Major Works of Middle English Literature
Grant Holder: Professor Linne Mooney
This project has investigated the manuscripts of all literary works by five major Middle English writers (the manuscripts dating 1375-1600), Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Hoccleve, William Langland, John Gower and John Trevisa, to find relationships among the writers and their patrons and audiences through the identification of the scribes who wrote the manuscripts. We will have examined over 300 manuscripts in libraries worldwide, and analyzed the number of hands in each manuscript and the other manuscripts written by these hands. [read more]
project: The diary re-invented
Grant Holder: Jane Gibb
The website presents a visual diary of images and texts from the 1960's to the 2000s created by Ian Breakwell that can be browsed using a timeline. The artist says: 'My work over the years has been in various media simultaneously: visual texts, drawings, photo-collage, events, theatre performances, film, film performances and expanded-cinema events, installations, environments, video, audio works, slide-tape sequences, digital imaging, writing and reading of prose texts. [read more]
project: Modelling Urban Renewal and Growth in Britain and North-West Europe, AD 800-1300: The Wallingford Burh to Borough Project
Grant Holder: Dr N Christie
Wallingford is a highly important yet vastly understudied historic small town, sited alongside the Thames and offering strong topographic survivals of early and full medieval date. By analysing the rich archaeological and documentary data (actual, visible and buried) for Wallingford between c. [read more]
project: Digitisation of Lacy's Acting Edition of Victorian Plays
Grant Holder: Professor Richard Pearson; Dr Kate Mattacks
Lacy's Acting Edition of Plays was published by Thomas Hailes Lacy at his Covent Garden printing house from the 1840s onwards: Lacy’s modern plays were bound into volumes, and a complete run exists in the collections of the Birmingham Central Reference Library. Phase Two of this project aimed to provide a number of e-texts of important plays and examples of genres from the collection. Lacy's Acting Edition was intended to preserve and supply texts of popular productions for future London productions, provincial and minor theatre companies and private theatricals. [read more]
project: Novum Inventorium Sepulchrale - Kentish Anglo-Saxon graves and grave-goods in the Sonia Hawkes archive
Grant Holder: Professor Helena Hamerow
The county of Kent is exceptionally rich in Anglo-Saxon cemeteries and excavations of some of these cemeteries in the 18th and early 19th centuries provided a wealth of finds reflecting Kent's close political and economic ties to the Frankish world in the 5th to 7th centuries. The website contains a searchable database of manuscripts, photographs and drawings from Sonia Hawkes' collection. Some of the information from the excavations was published in the nineteenth century and in Sonia Hawkes' series of monographs. [read more]
project: An electronic edition of Domesday Book (1086): interlinked translation, facsimile, databases, mapping, scholarly commentary, software
Grant Holder: Professor John Palmer
The text of Domesday Book is notoriously ambiguous, its array of social and economic statistics hitherto inaccessible, and the majority of individuals and many places unidentified. This electronic edition aims to make Domesday Book both more accessible and more intelligible by presenting its contents in a variety of forms: a translation, databases of names, places and statistics, and a detailed scholarly commentary on all matters of interest or obscurity in the text. All forms of the data are cross-referenced, and all can be used with standard applications. [read more]
project: The Collected Letters of Robert Southey (Parts 1-4: 1791-1815)
Grant Holder: Dr Lynda Pratt
Loved and loathed in equal measures by his contemporaries, the poet, biographer, historian and social and cultural critic Robert Southey (1774-1843) was one of the most public and controversial figures in late eighteenth and early nineteenth century Britain. The Collected Letters will make it possible for scholars to access for the first time his complete surviving correspondence. [read more]
project: Concert Life in Nineteenth-Century London Database Project: Phase II (Leeds) - the 1830s
Grant Holder: Dr Rachel Cowgill
The aim of this project is to study large-scale change in the nature of concert life and in the development of repertoire in London during the 'long 19th century', drawing on contemporary newspapers, periodicals, and concert programmes. The database, which was programmed in ORACLE and designed by Civic Computing, Edinburgh, is housed at the School of Arts and Humanities, Oxford Brookes University, and supported by its Computer Services Department. [read more]
project: Carrlands: mediated manifestations of site-specific performance in the Ancholme valley, North Lincolnshire
Grant Holder: Professor Michael Pearson
The aim of Carrlands is to create a series of related site-specific musical and spoken-word performances over a period of twelve months, for three locations in the agricultural valley of the river Ancholme in North Lincolnshire . Such performances represent both an innovative mode of enquiry and a research output, within the field of Performance Studies. The soundworks are disseminated and publicly distributed in the form of streamed; free-to-listen; podcasts, initially available through specially designed, dedicated pages on the University of Wales, Aberystwyth website. [read more]