Text Encoding Initiative (TEI)
project: Great Britain Historical GIS project
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The Great Britain Historical Geographical Information System is a unique digital collection of information about Britain's localities as they have changed over time. Information comes from census reports, historical gazetteers, travellers' tales and historic maps, assembled into a whole that is much more than the sum of its parts. [read more]
project: Online Historical Population Reports
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The Online Historical Population Reports (OHPR) collection provides online access to the complete British population reports for Britain and Ireland from 1801 to 1937.
The collection goes far beyond the basic population reports with a wealth of textual and statistical material which provide an in-depth view of the economy, society (through births, deaths and marriages) and medicine during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
These 200,000 pages of census and registration material for the British Isles are supported by numerous ancillary documents from The National Archives, crit [read more]
project: Concordia
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The overall aim of the project was to make it easier for readers to move between publications on the Web, instead of walking from one library shelf to another. Bringing information together in this way helps researchers to recognise a new range of relationships and interactions. [read more]
project: First World War Poetry Digital Archive
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The First World War Poetry Digital Archive is an online repository of over 7000 items of text, images, audio, and video for teaching, learning, and research.
The heart of the archive consists of collections of highly valued primary material from major poets of the period, including Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, Robert Graves, Vera Brittain, and Edward Thomas. This is supplemented by a comprehensive range of multimedia artefacts from the Imperial War Museum, a separate archive of over 6,500 items contributed by the general public, and a set of specially developed educational resources. [read more]
project: AsChart: Anglo-Saxon Charters (AsChart )
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The project aimed to provide historians with new ways of interrogating Anglo-Saxon charters and it resulted in the publication of charters written in Anglo-Saxon England before A.D. 900. The project explored the benefits of using an XML markup model based on the Text Encoding Initiative Guidelines and specifically tailored to the requirements of historians or literary scholars interested in Anglo-Saxon charters. [read more]
project: British printed images to 1700, a digital library
Grant Holder: Professor Michael Hunter
‘BRITISH PRINTED IMAGES TO 1700’ (bpi1700) is a project funded by the AHRC under their Resource Enhancement scheme. It represents a collaboration between Birkbeck, University of London, and the Centre for Computing in the Humanities (King’s College London). The other partners are the British Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum. It currently makes over 5,000 printed images from early modern Britain available online in fully searchable form. [read more]