Law
project: 18th-Century Parliamentary Papers
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During the eighteenth century the British Parliament ruled over one of the most powerful nations on earth. The matters it debated ranged from the minutely personal, such as individual divorce cases or family financial affairs, through the local, for example the construction or roads or harbours, to matters of the most central national importance, like electoral reform, wars and treaties, catholic emancipation or law and order.
All of these matters were reflected in Parliament's proceedings, in committee reports, bills, accounts of debates, and so on. [read more]
project: Proceedings of the Central Criminal Court 1834 to 1913, Online
Grant Holder: Professor Tim Hitchcock
The Central Criminal Court Online has digitised and posted in a searchable form 70 million words of transcripts of trials held at the Old Bailey between 1834 and 1913. It forms an extension to the NOF and AHRB funded project 'The Old Bailey Online', and forms a seamless body of text detailing all trials held between 1674 and 1834. In total approximately 125 million words of text is available. [read more]
project: Londoners and the Law: pleadings in the court of common pleas 1399-1509
Grant Holder: Dr Matthew Davies
The project seeks to answer the question: why and how did 15th-century Londoners make use of the royal court of common pleas at Westminster? It will track and analyse the litigation brought both by and against Londoners in the common pleas over the course of the period 1399-1509, and use the data gathered to answer a series of questions that will significantly enlarge our understanding go how the law was regarded and employed both in London, and more widely in late medieval England.
These questions include: what types of suits were brought by and against Londoners? [read more]
project: Digital catalogue of illuminated manuscripts in the Western Collections of the British Library (DigCIM)
Grant Holder: Kathleen Doyle
The Project provides catalogue descriptions and images of illuminated manuscripts in the British Library's collection on a collection-by-collection basis. Thus far, entries for illuminated manuscripts in all of the Library's collections are available online and can be found via the Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts website at:
www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts
Work on the Royal collection is in progress, funded by a further AHRC grant (see the entry for the Royal project). [read more]
project: TAPoR: Text Analysis Portal for Research
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TAPoR is a gateway to tools for sophisticated analysis and retrieval, along with representative texts for experimentation.
TAPoR has built a unique human and computing infrastructure for text analysis across Canada by establishing six regional centers to form one national text analysis research network. One of the major projects of the network was the development of the portal. This portal is a gateway to tools for sophisticated analysis and retrieval, along with representative texts for experimentation. [read more]