Scotland
project: The Relevance of the Major Scottish Collections of Printed Renaissance Drama to the Cultural History and Contemporary Reception of Shakespeare
Grant Holder: Dr James Loxley
The research is intended to develop and deepen our understanding of the significance of particular items in the libraries' holdings and the histories of the various individual collections that make up those holdings. This work will provide the basis for a major exhibition to be held at the National Library. [read more]
project: Site-specific digital art as a strategy for shaping the built environment
Grant Holder: Ms Minty Donald
Through the creation of two suites of site-responsive artworks that took place at Tramway, a contemporary arts venue in Glasgow, and the Britannia Panopticon building, which houses a former music hall and a working amusement arcade, also in Glasgow, and related publications and symposia, the project explored the potential of art - and specifically site-orientated or critical spatial practice - to encourage dynamic, individual, idiosyncratic and imaginative engagements with material heritage. [read more]
project: On-line version of Royal Historical Society Bibliographies on British and Irish History
Grant Holder: Dr Ian Archer
The Royal Historical Society Bibliography is an authoritative guide to what has been written about British and Irish history from the Roman period to the present day. For a full record see: http://www.arts-humanities.net/projects/royal_historical_society_bibliographies_british_irish_history [read more]
project: Bibliography of Scottish literature in translation; pre 1900 project (1)
Grant Holder: Professor Peter France
The Bibliography of Scottish Literature in Translation (BOSLIT) is an online resource that offers an extensive and readily accessible source of information about Scottish literature in translation. With currently over 25,000 records, and steadily increasing, BOSLIT aims to serve the needs of academic researchers, writers and translators, libraries, schools, literature administrators and general readers. [read more]
project: A Supplement to the Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Grant Holder: Professor Gregory Toner
This electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language (eDIL) is a digital edition of the complete contents of the Royal Irish Academy’s Dictionary of the Irish Language based mainly on Old and Middle Irish materials. The eDIL team is now beginning the task of revising the content of the Dictionary itself. In order to permit meaningful searches of the Dictionary, the digital text has been marked up in Extensible Mark-up Language (XML) following the guidelines of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) for Print Dictionaries. [read more]
project: Survival and Success on Medieval Borders: Cistercian Houses in Medieval Scotland and Pomerania
Grant Holder: Dr Emilia Jamroziak
This project considered the role of Cistercian monasteries on the frontiers of northern Europe. Spanning twelfth, thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, it explored six case studies of Cistercian foundations in Pomerania and Neumark (southern Baltic) and on the Scottish-English border focusing on their involvement in the trans-border networks, relationships with the local and external centres of power as well as the impact of wars and other forms of violence on those monastic communities. [read more]
project: The role of shell middens in the Mesolithic settlement of Western Scotland and the transition to the Neolithic: A technological study of chipped stone
Grant Holder: Professor Steven Mithen
The first people to live in Scotland arrived around 9000 years ago and lived by hunting and gathering within woodlands that had colonised the landscape after the end of the ice age and on the coasts where many resources including shellfish, fish, sea mammals and seaweed could be exploited. The principal type of Mesolithic evidence for archaeologists is the stone tools and the waste from their manufacture. [read more]
project: The creation and marketing of the etchings of James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)
Grant Holder: Professor Margaret MacDonald
James McNeill Whistler’s reputation was founded on his achievements as a master of etching. This informative exhibition showcases the outputs of a five-year project, led by the University, to produce an online catalogue raisonné of Whistler’s etchings. The display focuses on the discoveries and questions that have arisen during the project’s first four years. [read more]
project: The Demarco Archives: accessing a 40-year dialogue between Richard Demarco and the European Avant-Garde
Grant Holder: Mr Euan McArthur
The Richard Demarco Archives constitute a unique record of contemporary arts activities and related developments in Scotland and internationally from the early 1960’s to the present. They document all aspects of Richard Demarco’s multi-faceted career, including his interactions and collaborations with some of the foremost artists of the time, along with presentations of mould-breaking visual and performing arts. Of international range and significance, the archives are relevant to contemporary visual art, theatre, literature, cultural studies, history, philosophy and politics. [read more]
project: The British Empire exhibition, Glasgow 1938
Grant Holder: Mr Ian Johnston
The aim of the project was to create a permanent resource for the exploration, research and public exhibition of the Empire Exhibition of 1938 in the context of Scottish and UK social and architectural history. This has been achieved by consulting as many sources and individuals as possible to assist in building an accurate 3D digital model from which the planning of the Exhibition and its architectural style can be examined. Through interviews with those who visited the Exhibition in 1938, some measure of the impact it had in late 1930s Glasgow, Scotland and the UK can be made. [read more]