Piston, Pen & Press
An AHRC-funded project which aims to understand how industrial workers, from the 1840s to the 1910s, engaged with literary culture through writing, reading, and participation in wider cultural activities.
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Mining the Seams
This Derbyshire Record Office project will open up the hidden stories of Derbyshire’s miners contained within the archive of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) Derbyshire area, as well as shedding light on the trade union activities of the NUM.
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Lexicon of Medieval Nordic Law
A Nordic-English lexicon devoted to the vast array of legal terminology found in medieval Scandinavian texts.
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Casa Ricordi Letters
This project is producing a digital edition of the letters (15,000) written to Casa Ricordi, the world famous music publisher, during the 19th and 20th centuries by writers, singers and composers including Giuseppe Verdi, Giacomo Puccini, Franz Liszt, Ottorino Respighi, Jules Massenet, Alfredo Casella and Luigi Nono.
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Aphra Behn
Aphra Behn (1640-89) was one of the most prolific and important authors of drama, fiction, verse, and translations in her period.
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Linguistic DNA of Modern Western Thought
The aim of this project is to understand the evolution of early modern thought by modelling the semantic and conceptual changes which occurred in English discourse (c.1500-c.1800). The project will use information extraction techniques and data visualisation to identify lexical patterns in 250,000 texts.
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