Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH)

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The British Contribution to Series A/ii of Repertoire International des Sources Musicales (RISM)

Posted by arts-humanities.net on March 29, 2015

This catalogue enables you to search for music manuscripts from the 17th and 18th centuries preserved in national, public, and academic libraries in the U.K., in county and city archives, and in cathedral and chapel libraries. It also includes details of music manuscripts held in some Dublin libraries.

Its eventual aim is to provide a single access point for music manuscripts of the 17th and 18th centuries in the UK and Ireland.

Academic field
Music
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The Thomas Gray Archive

Posted by arts-humanities.net on March 29, 2015

The Thomas Gray Archive is a long-term research effort dedicated to studying the life and work of eighteenth-century poet and letter-writer Thomas Gray (1716-1771). The Archive strives to preserve and to make accessible a comprehensive corpus of high-quality, electronic primary sources and secondary materials.

Academic field
English Language and Literature
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British printed images to 1700, a digital library

Posted by arts-humanities.net on March 29, 2015

‘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.

Academic field
History, Media, Community Arts (including Art and Health), Visual Arts
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East London Theatre Archive (ELTA)

Posted by arts-humanities.net on March 29, 2015

The East London Theatre Archive provides online access to resources of music hall and variety theatres in London's East End during the Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries. Around 15,000 items are digitised and described, with supporting material commissioned to provide historical context. Resources come from the collections of V&A Theatre Collections, University of East London and parter organisations.

Academic field
Drama and Theatre Studies, Music
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Dissenting academy libraries and their readers, 1720-1860

Posted by Isabel Rivers on February 25, 2015

Dissenting Academy Libraries and their Readers, 1720-1860 is an innovative project which uses techniques from the digital humanities to study the history of libraries. The main objective of the project was to study the libraries of the dissenting academies, in particular what they reveal about the education offered to students and the impact that books had on students’ intellectual and religious development.

Academic field
History, History of religion, Library studies