Still Image/Graphics
project: The Old Bailey Online, 1674-1834
Grant Holder: Professor Tim Hitchcock
The Old Bailey Proceedings form one of the largest bodies of published text ever created, detailing the lives and experiences of non-elite people. Containing 25 million words of text, they record the evidence given at and outcome of 100,000 trials held at the Old Bailey. This project has created a searchable text-base, that can be used for free text searching, structured searching of marked-up text, and statistical analysis. [read more]
project: Chopin's First Editions Online
Grant Holder: Professor John Rink
The project has four key aims:
1. To create an online resource uniting the original impressions of Chopin's first editions in an unprecedented virtual collection
2. To develop complex textual interlinking of this virtual collection and relevant excerpts of the Annotated Catalogue of Chopin's First Editions (co-authored by Christophe Grabowski and John Rink, to be published by Cambridge University Press in 2005)
3. To provide comparative text-analytical commentary on the multiple first editions in this archive
4. [read more]
project: French Vernacular Books: A Short-Title Catalogue of Books in the French language published before 1601
Grant Holder: Professor Andrew Pettegree
The St Andrews French Book Project intends to create an analytical bibliography of all books published in the French language before 1601. It is the first ever global survey of early French books, based on an exhaustive investigation of over 1550 libraries worldwide. It is also the first major national bibliographical project to have been designed and completed entirely in the electronic age. [read more]
project: Analysing the Mitchell and Kenyon Collection in relation to regional and non-fiction films 1900-1911
Grant Holder: Professor Vanessa Toulmin
The Mitchell and Kenyon collection has substantially challenged the traditional view of early cinema in that it has shifted the emphasis to exhibition and audience response away from film production and technique. The Collection has provided empirical evidence that the spread and exploitation of cinema in the first decade of the twentieth century outside the South East basis was primarily undertaken by itinerant showmen. [read more]
project: French Piano Repertoire 1870-1920: Faure, Debussy, Ravel and Chabrier
Grant Holder: Dr Roy Howat
It's best defined by the key publications involved:
Critical editions of Fauré piano works (Peters Edition, London, ongoing): the first reliable and well-commented musical text for pianists of these important works
Œuvres complètes de Claude Debussy (Editions Durand, Paris, ongoing): completion of the piano works in this series (various editors including myself), and now the production of revised budget paperback offprints from these library volumes
Lifting the lid on French piano music: Debussy, Ravel, Fauré, Chabrier (Yale UP, now being completed). [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: 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: The Pompey Project: the evolution, structure and legacy of the Theatre of Pompey
Grant Holder: Professor Richard Beacham
The first scientific study of Rome’s first permanent theatre. Comprehensive documentation of all surviving remains, supplemented by new limited excavation at specific points targeted by our initial analysis. Creation of a definitive series of site-plans, sections, elevations keyed to a complete photographic record, and measured drawings. We have prepared an extensive archaeological register recording the details of every known artefact discovered on the site of the theatre complex for the past five centuries. [read more]
project: Palaeopathology and the origins and evolution of horse husbandry
Grant Holder: Professor Graeme Barker
A collaborative, interdisciplinary project, rooted in archaeology and employing veterinary science to identify osteological differences between riding, traction and free-living horses, resulting from their different life-ways, in order to further our understanding of the origins and evolution of horse husbandry. Two analytical methods are employed:
1) A detailed comparative study of skeletons from a wide range of sources, both modern and ancient. We are examining samples from 3 populations of modern horses (free-living Exmoor ponies, Lithuanian draught horses, and riding ponies. [read more]
project: Papers of Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806 - 1859)
Grant Holder: Dr Mark Horton
The University of Bristol, UK, holds over 33,000 pages in the Brunel Collection. This collection contains the personal papers of the Victorian engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel, a key figure in the Industrial Revolution. However, despite its importance as a scholarly resource, no electronic catalogue of the collection exists and physical access is limited. In 2003 the University was awarded an AHRB resource enhancement grant to carry out a pilot digitization project to bring this resource to a wider audience via the Internet. [read more]