"The aim of this database is to provide an insight into the sociology of the guerrilla movement that fought Napoleon Bonaparte in Spain between 1808 and 1814. Although a phenomenon that is both well known and accorded considerable importance in the history of the period, the participants in this struggle have never been the subject of detailed study. Many assumptions have been made about them that the clergy figured disproportionately among their leadership, that many of the rank and file were deserters, etc. but it has been impossible to test out these ideas. [read more]

"Gidian Archives is a database created from the press cuttings preserved by André Gide in his personal collection. The archive consists of articles published during his life on the author's work, his person and his influence on the society and culture of his age. It is well known that the 'key contemporary', as Gide was called, represents an essential reference point for several generations of intellectuals. Thus the articles in Gidian Archives provide crucial evidence on the history of thought across half a century. [read more]

An invaluable research resource in an exciting new area of French cultural studies the site comprises profiles of nearly 200 Francophone film stars, film descriptions and a database of references of press, radio and television coverage of Francophone film celebrities between 1949 and the present day. Publications selected for the database give a broad social and cultural perspective on film stars and the star concept. General mass-market titles like Paris-Match and Voici are complemented by titles conceived along the lines of gender, sexuality and age. [read more]

The purpose of the CURSUS project is to employ the Extensible Markup Language (XML), together with transformations performed by the Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSLT), to make data from sources of medieval Latin liturgy available on the Web. [read more]