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Databasing key documents and narrative chronologies of artists' film and video distributors in the UK |
The project created a database – the Film and Video Distribution Database (FVDD) – of chronological information and key documents relating to artists'/independent film and video distributors in the UK from the 1960s to date, which have been collected as part of two AHRB funded research projects. The database will be accessible via its own URL and via the British Artists Film and Video Study Collection. Users' searches will generate bespoke chronologies, fully referenced bibliographies of the related documents held online, and direct the user to further relevant material on the BAFV Study Collection website. This will provide an extensive and previously unavailable research resource. The research has focused mainly on the London Filmmakers Coop, London Video Access/Electronic Arts, the Lux, Circles, Cinema of Women, Cinenova, Albany Video Distribution, and Film and Video Umbrella, together with the organisations that have funded them, namely the Arts Council, the British Film Institute, Channel Four, Greater London Arts, the London Film and Video Development Agency, and the GLC. Among the documents available on the database are committee meeting minutes, policy documents, promotional material, development prospectuses, reports, funding applications, press coverage, budgets, artists' and funders' correspondence, royalty statements, and audience feedback sheets. The FVDD has been conceived as an ongoing project which can be added to as more material can be processed or comes to light. |
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19th- and Early 20th-Century Annotated Editions of String Music: Bibliographical Problems, Editorial Content and Implications for Performance Practice |
Nineteenth and early twentieth-century annotated editions of earlier string music have generally been scorned in recent decades by performers, even those who specialise in historically-informed performance, and have received little attention from scholars. Greater emphasis has been placed on Urtexts, which seek to present the composer's approved notation as the authoritative text of the work. Yet the numerous editions of string music, published between c.1850 and 1930, contain not only the markings of the composers (sometimes, however, modified by the editor), but also additional technical or stylistic indications supplied by editors. These editions preserve vital clues to the performing practices that were understood by musicians of that time to lie behind and beyond the notation supplied by the composer. The project is to collate, digitise (and put online) a large collection of published performing parts of string-based chamber music from Haydn to Brahms, published between 1840 and 1930. This will lead to analysis of the content of annotated/edited performance parts in order better to understand the complex and often elusive subtleties of performing practice in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The project will lead to 2 conferences (the first is at Cardiff University, June 23-24 2010), articles and a published book in addition to the online materials. |
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Clergy of the Church of England Database (CCEd) |
The Clergy of the Church of England Database aimed to construct a relational database containing the careers of all clergymen of the Church of England between 1540 and 1835. The Database brings together evidence about clerical careers from all 27 dioceses of England and Wales, which are held at 28 diocesan repositories and 23 other archives and libraries. The Database fills a major gap in our knowledge of one of the most important professions in early modern England and Wales, and takes advantage of new technology to provide an invaluable research tool for both national and local historians who often need to discover biographical information about individual clergymen. As the Database is designed in such a way as to enable a wide variety of data retrieval and analyses. Historians and others can establish the succession of clergy in particular localities, trace individual career paths as they cross diocesan boundaries, and investigate such issues as patterns of clerical migration and patronage across geographical and chronological blocs of their choice. Thus, rather than containing a series of prose biographies, the database records information about clerical careers in interlinked tables, and consequently is well-suited to facilitate not only biographical research, but also more structural investigations of the Church, its clergy, its livings and patrons. |
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Strandlines |
Strandlines Digital Community is a King’s College London initiative that explores one of London’s most famous streets, the Strand, and its past and present communities. The project brings together local residents, workers and visitors by means of storytelling. Using digital technologies and techniques from life writing – a creative field concerned with personal life stories – it seeks to foster a more active sense of community in the Strand area. |
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London Theatre Bibliography (LTB) |
This project combines two independent, but mutually supportive, projects which have complementary outputs: the need for a systematic and complete <em>edition</em> of all pre-1642 manuscript and printed records relating to the eight early Middlesex/Westminster theatres north of the Thames, and the complementary need for an aggregated <em>bibliography</em> which locates, assesses, and digests all printed transcriptions of pre-1642 documents relating to these theatres. It does so by focussing on a core element (records of early drama, secular music and ceremonial, and their subsequent transmission through transcriptions of these sources through the subsequent centuries) common to them both.
The records of drama in the early Middlesex/Westminster theatres will be assembled into a print publication published by U fo Toronto's Records of Early English Dramaa (REED) project, the bibliography will be published as a web application and will chart the publication of transcriptions of that data over the centuries. The combined research project thus offers both the generation of a primary resource and a basis for reflective analysis of how such data was selected and transmitted in subsequent traditions. |
