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02 Nov 2009 08:57
Pinner census, 1901
http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/findingData/snDescription.asp?sn=5323
This is a Web page detailing the context, range and availability of the 'Pinner Census, 1901' dataset hosted by the History Data Service (HDS), based at the UK Data Archive University of Essex (formerly part of the Arts and Humanities Data Service - AHDS). The data is available to order from the HDS as a tab delimited text file. From this Web page you may download a PDF of images of the study documentation. To make use of this dataset you must first register with the HDS, and further information is supplied giving instructions. In order to facilitate the study of local history the Pinner Local History Society have transcribed the enumerators' books for Pinner for the census year 1901 in addition to their previous transcriptions of 1841, 1851, 1861, 1871, 1881 and 1891. The data comprise one record for each individual with information as follows: year and schedule; address; surname; forename/s; relationship to head code; marital status; sex; age; code for occupation (Booth-Armstrong); occupation name; birthplace; birth county. Added: 2009-11-02
Views of hosts : reporting the alien commodity trade, 1440-1445
http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/findingData/snDescription.asp?sn=5297
This is a Web page detailing the context, range and availability of the 'Views of Hosts: Reporting the Alien Commodity Trade, 1440-1445' dataset hosted by the History Data Service (HDS), based at the UK Data Archive University of Essex (formerly part of the Arts and Humanities Data Service - AHDS). The data is available to order from the HDS as tab delimited text files or MS Access 2002 files. From this Web page you may download a PDF of images of the study documentation. To make use of this dataset you must first register with the HDS, and further information is supplied giving instructions. The project aimed to make widely accessible the data gathered on the alien commodity trade as a result of an act of parliament in 1439, which required the formal pairing of alien merchants with English hosts who kept registers of alien business activities. Copies of these registers (or views) were ordered to be returned to the exchequer. The original documents, in Anglo-Norman French and Latin written up in 15th century hands, are available to the public at The National Archives, but the linguistic and palaeographical skills necessary to read them have proven a considerable obstacle to their use, except by a handful of professional scholars who have used the source to provide occasional illustrations of particular points. The project was designed to make the source readily and easily available to a broader readership in the form of a full transcript, as well as an English translation, and a database. The project further examined the antecedents and context of the 1439 legislation, and sought to identify the social, political and economic forces driving this early effort to isolate and control alien communities. It explored the data in terms of the contemporary good and bad alien stereotypes. It also assessed the mechanics of the administrative system employed for data collection, its adequacy to the task, and the methods used by aliens to evade it. The database contains 6 related tables which record the names and commodity descriptions from some 2,300 individual business transactions which took place between alien and English merchants during the early 1440s. It includes exact dates of the transaction, where given in the original; the forename and surname of the alien in a standardised spelling, together with his role as supplier or client, and the description of his status as given in the preamble to the original document. The forename and surname of the merchant with whom he dealt is also entered in a standardised spelling, together with his or her role as supplier or client, and a note of his or her trade affiliation or social status where it is known. A description of the commodity is entered, including any specification as to its colour or quality, the commodity then being assigned to an appropriate category of goods (spice, fabric, food, drink household, manufacture, personal, military, construction, fur). The weight, measurement or number of the commodity as given in the original is entered, with the price paid in sterling (sd) and an automatically generated equivalent price in pence (d) to facilitate calculation. Additionally, an indication is given as to whether the price applies only to one particular commodity, or represents an overall price for a transaction covering several listed commodities. Added: 2009-11-02
Colonial possession : personal property and social identity in British India, 1780-1848
http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/findingData/snDescription.asp?sn=5254
This is a Web page detailing the context, range and availability of the 'Colonial Possession: Personal Property and Social Identity in British India, 1780-1848' dataset hosted by the History Data Service (HDS), based at the UK Data Archive University of Essex (formerly part of the Arts and Humanities Data Service - AHDS). The data is available to order from the HDS as tab delimited text files. From this Web page you may download a PDF of images of the study documentation. To make use of this dataset you must first register with the HDS, and further information is supplied giving instructions. The research assesses the acquisition, use, meaning and circulation of personal possessions by propertied Britons in India, c. 1780-1850. Quantitative data from wills and a unique collection of inventories was collected to underpin qualitative analysis of changing consumer preferences within the Anglo-Indian community, and the social and familial functions of British consumer behaviour in a cross-cultural and colonial context. The research addressed key historiographical debates such as the impact of the colonial encounter upon consumption and the development of a consumer culture; the interaction of race, class and legitimacy in the formation of British identities in India; and the shift from Orientalism to Anglicisation among the Anglo-Indian community. Wills were studied to establish the typical patterns of bequests among the European population on the subcontinent, focussing especially upon the treatment of illegitimacy and concubinage, and the treatment of servants and slaves. Inventories yielded information about the rich material culture of British India, with a range of consumer goods, from enemas to telescopes, being recorded; where possible, information was also taken upon the purchasers of these items. Particularly valuable is the databases information on book ownership and exchange, an area of historical enquiry bedevilled by limited source information. The resource consists of a database, made up of 17 tables, recording information taken from the wills and inventories: decedent details; possession of a variety of items (including books, hygiene items, and clothing); details of purchasers for these items; bequest details from wills, including both detailed information on the recipients of individual bequests and a more general coding of the bequest-pattern adopted by the decedent, and information on the treatment of slaves and servants within the wills. A user guide giving information as to the structure of the database and the decisions made about recording information in the database is also provided. Added: 2009-11-02
Railway timetables on selected important and minor routes, 1850, 1870, 1887 and 1910
http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/findingData/snDescription.asp?sn=5234
This is a Web page detailing the context, range and availability of the 'Railway Timetables on Selected Important and Minor Routes, 1850, 1870, 1887 and 1910' dataset hosted by the History Data Service (HDS), based at the UK Data Archive University of Essex (formerly part of the Arts and Humanities Data Service - AHDS). The data is available to order from the HDS as tab delimited text files or MS Excel 2002 files. From this Web page you may download a PDF of images of the study documentation. To make use of this dataset you must first register with the HDS, and further information is supplied giving instructions. These data were created as part of the project 'Understanding the effects of different generations of large-scale technological change' which used modern economic theory to measure more accurately the effects of major technological changes. It did this by comparing current major new technology - computing- with two previous generations of large-scale technological change, railways and electricity, thereby creating a yardstick by which to judge what constitutes a large effect. It then moved away from the commonly held assumption that new technology simply reduces the price of existing goods and instead examined the notion that major new technologies create new goods and that consumers value some of those new goods very highly. It also considered the extent to which these technologies deserve the term general purpose, by looking at how evenly the effects of each technology are spread across the different sectors of the economy. These particular data were used to more accurately assess the average speeds of English and Welsh railways in the period. These data give the times of all weekday train journeys on 50 important routes in England and Wales and of 1 train journey on each of 222 minor routes, for each four benchmark years: 1850, 1870, 1887 and 1910. Added: 2009-11-02
Forgotten migrants : a cultural history of post-war British migrants who
http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/findingData/snDescription.asp?sn=5230
This is a Web page detailing the context, range and availability of the 'Forgotten Migrants: A Cultural History of Post-war British Migrants Who Returned 'Home' from Australia, 1920-2000' dataset hosted by the History Data Service (HDS), based at the UK Data Archive University of Essex (formerly part of the Arts and Humanities Data Service - AHDS). The data is available to order from the HDS as a NUD*IST database, or RTF, PDF files. From this Web page you may download a PDF of images of the study documentation. To make use of this dataset you must first register with the HDS, and further information is supplied giving instructions. Migration histories often neglect return migration. More than a million Britons migrated to Australia in the peak years of migration between 1945 and 1971, the majority using the assisted passage migration scheme. A significant proportion returned to Britain. This research involved the collection and analysis of written and oral life stories by these return migrants. It complemented La Trobe University (Melbourne) research involving the life stories of postwar British migrants still resident in Australia. The research aimed to enrich our understanding of the post war movements of people between Britain and Australia, of the experiences of British migrants in Australia, and of the motivations, processes and meanings of return migration. The research also aimed to develop more general theoretical understandings of the ways in which migrants deal with disjuncture and displacement and construct life stories which make sense of the turbulent interconnections between memory and identity, and between migration, place and nationality. Added: 2009-11-02
Property rights in seventeenth century France
http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/findingData/snDescription.asp?sn=5224
This is a Web page detailing the context, range and availability of the 'Property Rights in Seventeenth Century France' dataset hosted by the History Data Service (HDS), based at the UK Data Archive University of Essex (formerly part of the Arts and Humanities Data Service - AHDS). The data is available to order from the HDS as Idealist Natural data and exported TXT files. From this Web page you may download a PDF of images of the study documentation. To make use of this dataset you must first register with the HDS, and further information is supplied giving instructions. A comparative analysis of concepts of property and property rights in Languedoc, Normandy and Burgundy in the late seventeenth century based on investigation of customs, legal commentaries, test cases, court cases, together with a selection of marriage contracts, wills, property transactions, government edicts and other decisions. The aims were to (a) clarify an area of considerable confusion by elucidating the character and basis of French property rights (b) demonstrate that modern property rights and a sense of absolute property rights were less developed than is often suggested and that contemporaries (c) show that, despite differences in the customs of different regions and in their legal procedures, particularly between the customary north and the 'Roman' south, property relations and the strategies pursued within them were similar. A further, longer term objective is to use the material to illuminate the differing evolution and formation of English and French society by comparing the emergence of modern concepts of property rights in the two countries. Added: 2009-11-02
Database of Australasian government loans offered by public sale in London, 1857-1914
http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/findingData/snDescription.asp?sn=5222
This is a Web page detailing the context, range and availability of the 'Database of Australasian Government Loans Offered by Public Sale in London, 1857-1914' dataset hosted by the History Data Service (HDS), based at the UK Data Archive University of Essex (formerly part of the Arts and Humanities Data Service - AHDS). The data is available to order from the HDS as tab delimited text files. From this Web page you may download a PDF of images of the study documentation. To make use of this dataset you must first register with the HDS, and further information is supplied giving instructions. The database contains a record of every Australasian government loan offered in London by public advertisement between the first such issue in 1857 and 1914. The governments concerned are those of the seven British colonies of New South Wales, New Zealand, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia, and the four New Zealand provincial administrations of Auckland, Canterbury, Otago and Wellington which also attempted to raise capital by this means. There are no records of loans floated by the Commonwealth of Australia (the federal government created in 1901) because its first issue in London did not occur until 1916. Purely conversion operations in which holders were offered the exchange of new securities for old have been excluded. The dataset provides information about the activities of a significant group of borrowers in the London capital market during its rise and prime as the dominant international financial centre in the world economy. It contains details about the characteristics of all publicly advertised loan issues; their marketing arrangements; and their results. It therefore can be used to examine the way in which Australasian borrowers approached the London market, the success with which they did this, and the ways in which both changed over time. It can be used for comparison with the activity of other borrowers. More broadly, it contributes to our understanding of development of the London capital market during the period. Added: 2009-11-02
Cornwall online census project, 1841
http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/findingData/snDescription.asp?sn=5221
This is a Web page detailing the context, range and availability of the 'Cornwall Online Census Project, 1841' dataset hosted by the History Data Service (HDS), based at the UK Data Archive University of Essex (formerly part of the Arts and Humanities Data Service - AHDS). The data is available to order from the HDS as tab delimited text files and PNG image files. From this Web page you may download a PDF of images of the study documentation. To make use of this dataset you must first register with the HDS, and further information is supplied giving instructions. The aim of Free Census is to transcribe all the UK 19th century census returns. It is part of Free UKGEN and is a sister project to FreeBMD and Free REG. The intention is that all three of the UK primary sources for the family historian will be online and free to view. This data is a transcription of all census enumerators books of the Cornwall registration districts. Variables include: address of household, forename and surname, age at last birthday (rounded down to nearest 5-year point for people over 15), occupation, and whether born in Cornwall or another English county or in Scotland, Ireland or Foreign Parts and additional notes. Added: 2009-11-02
Catalogue of the published papers of the national association for the promotion of social science, 1857-1886
http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/findingData/snDescription.asp?sn=5209
This is a Web page detailing the context, range and availability of the 'Catalogue of the Published Papers of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science, 1857-1886' dataset hosted by the History Data Service (HDS), based at the UK Data Archive University of Essex (formerly part of the Arts and Humanities Data Service - AHDS). The data is available to order from the HDS as a series of tab delimited text files. From this Web page you may download a PDF of images of the study documentation. To make use of this dataset you must first register with the HDS, and further information is supplied giving instructions. The National Association for the Promotion of Social Science (or Social Science Association as it was known in short) provided a highly influential forum for the discussion of social, political, economic, educational, sanitary, legal and cultural issues between the 1850s and 1880s. Its debates featured leading Victorians, among them prime ministers and other politicians; intellectuals; social reformers; the first British feminists; trade unionists; and civil servants. Approximately 4,500 papers, published in more than 50 volumes, were delivered to the Association by more than 2,000 speakers but they have been little used by scholars because their contents are largely unknown. The aim of the project has been to produce a searchable catalogue, freely accessible over the World Wide Web, to assist researchers in finding some of the most important social commentary of the Victorian era. The resource is a relational database containing the titles of all papers in the serials published by the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science, as well as those in the Association's Report on Trades Societies (1860), the report of the Congrés International de Bienfaisance de Londres (1862) and Lectures on Economical Science (1870). For each paper, the database holds its author, citation, where a full text of it may be found if the paper is only a summary or no more than a listed title, any notes about the content of the paper made by the original editor of the catalogue. The database also contains a classificatory scheme, devised by the original editor, in which every paper is allocated a place. The database also contains any biographical information about authors given in the publications. Added: 2009-11-02
Scottish Emigration Database (Images), 1923
http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/findingData/snDescription.asp?sn=5193
This is a Web page detailing the context, range and availability of the 'Scottish Emigration Database (Images), 1923' dataset hosted by the History Data Service (HDS), based at the UK Data Archive University of Essex (formerly part of the Arts and Humanities Data Service - AHDS). The data is available to order from the HDS as a series of still image files (PNG) and text files. From this Web page you may download a PDF of images of the study documentation. To make use of this dataset you must first register with the HDS, and further information is supplied giving instructions. Since the 1980s scholarly research into emigration from the British Isles has led to the publication of a substantial body of monographs, articles and collections of essays, which have addressed the subject from a variety of thematic, chronological, regional and international perspectives. The Scottish Emigration Database is the product of an Arts and Humanities Research Board (AHRB) funded project based at the University of Aberdeens AHRB Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies from January 2003 to March 2005. The Data Compilation and Analysis Project: Diaspora Studies was one of seven projects funded through the Centres Diaspora Programme. The research for the project had a two-year timeframe. The first eighteen months were spent in digitising the source documents and compiling the relational database, with the final six months being devoted to analysis. In view of the huge volume of archival material, it was decided to select records at ten-year intervals, rather than attempt comprehensive coverage. These snapshots were to include the first year that full records become available (1890), the upsurge in external migration just before the First World War (1910), the resurgence of the movement after the war (1920), the nadir of the depression (1930) and the period after World War II when air travel was beginning to take over from ocean passage (1960). It was subsequently decided to add 1923 to the sample, owing to its particular significance for Scottish emigration. The physical process of digitisation took place at The National Archives in Kew (London). The source documents were passenger lists (sometimes referred to as passenger manifests) completed by the pursers of shipping companies that conveyed passengers to ports outside Europe and the Mediterranean between 1890 and 1960. Using a Finepix S602 camera, each page was photographed twice, generating over 6,000 digital images, which were subsequently stored on DVD. Only one picture of each of these manifests is available in this study. This study features the collection of digital images that were generated in this project. This collection of images comprises in particular emigration records for the ports of Dundee, Glasgow, Leith, Lochboisdale and Stornoway for the year of 1923. In these records, entries about various aspects of passengers such as city of origin, age, occupation, and of the ships that were used such as ship's name, steamship line to which they belonged, and registration can be viewed. Added: 2009-11-02
National data on new interwar manufacturing plants and extensions, 1919-1938
http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/findingData/snDescription.asp?sn=5192
This is a Web page detailing the context, range and availability of the 'National Data on New Interwar Manufacturing Plants and Extensions, 1919-1938' dataset hosted by the History Data Service (HDS), based at the UK Data Archive University of Essex (formerly part of the Arts and Humanities Data Service - AHDS). The data is available to order from the HDS as tab delimited text files. From this Web page you may download a PDF of images of the study documentation. To make use of this dataset you must first register with the HDS, and further information is supplied giving instructions. This project examined patterns of industrial location and clustering for new manufacturing plants in interwar Britain. The dataset provides plant-level data on new manufacturing plants (together with some non-manufacturing plants, such as repair and servicing facilities) established throughout Britain from 1932-38, and in the London region (together with some adjacent localities) for the whole of the interwar period. These were assembled from two contemporary sources: the Board of Trades annual 1932-38 Surveys of Industrial Development, and a register compiled by the Greater London Regional Development Committee. The data are limited to plants with an initial employment of at least 25 people. They include each plants location, a description of its output, its sector (coded by three digit 1980 Standard Industrial Classification), and its initial employment (mainly within bands of 100). For plants established between 1932 and 1938, information is also available regarding whether the plant was a branch plant of the firm in question, or was opened as a result of a transfer of production from another locality. The national 1932-38 data also include information on extensions of production for existing plants (where these involve the employment of at least 25 people). The data are entered into two Excel files, one covering the national 1932-38 data and the other providing 1919-38 data for the London region and some adjacent areas. Added: 2009-11-02
Growth of British industrial estates, 1900-1939
http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/findingData/snDescription.asp?sn=5191
This is a Web page detailing the context, range and availability of the 'Growth of British Industrial Estates, 1900-1939' dataset hosted by the History Data Service (HDS), based at the UK Data Archive University of Essex (formerly part of the Arts and Humanities Data Service - AHDS). The data is available to order from the HDS as a tab delimited text file. From this Web page you may download a PDF of images of the study documentation. To make use of this dataset you must first register with the HDS, and further information is supplied giving instructions. During the last two decades research on industrial districts, flexible specialisation, and high-tech regions has highlighted the importance of the local business environment to successful industrial development. Nineteenth century Britain developed a series of specialised industrial districts, providing pools of skilled labour, highly developed ancillary trades and services, networks of cooperative subcontracting relationships, and (in some cases) rented factory accommodation including power and utilities. However, the 'new' industries of the 'second industrial revolution', tended to locate outside such districts, in new 'green field' industrial areas. These often involved a new, more formally constituted, form of industrial agglomeration - the industrial or 'trading' estate. Closely associated with the rise of electric power and the internal combustion engine, and highly concentrated in the South East, industrial estates rapidly expanded to accommodate plants employing around 285,000 people by 1939, including some of Britain's best known companies such as Ford, HMV, Hoover, Lever Brothers, Mars, and Metropolitan Vickers. Despite considerable contemporary interest in their development, there has been little academic analysis of the general growth of pre-1939 industrial estates. This may be due, at least in part, to the paucity of quantitative and other evidence regarding their early development. This dataset provides estimates of the number of industrial estates established in Britain, their locations, the companies or other institutions that developed them, and the number of employees working in them at several 'benchmark' dates. Evidence is drawn from contemporary published and unpublished studies, company, government, and local archives and other sources. Added: 2009-11-02
Crop returns for England, 1801
http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/findingData/snDescription.asp?sn=5156
This is a Web page detailing the context, range and availability of the 'Crop Returns for England, 1801' dataset hosted by the History Data Service (HDS), based at the UK Data Archive University of Essex (formerly part of the Arts and Humanities Data Service - AHDS). The data is available to order from the HDS as a tab delimited text file. From this Web page you may download a PDF of images of the study documentation. To make use of this dataset you must first register with the HDS, and further information is supplied giving instructions. The resource arises from a full transcript of the 1801 Crop Returns. The originals are contained in the National Archives, Home Office Papers, under the reference PRO, HO67. The 1801 Crop Returns were collected by the Home Office in a period of concern about two issues: the recurrence of poor harvest in the second half of the 1790s; and the suspected impending invasion by the French at the time of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. The 1801 returns took the form of a census or audit of standing crop resources. The Secretary of State for Home Affairs devolved the enquiry to the bishops of the 26 dioceses of England and Wales that existed at the time. The bishops in turn organised their parish clergy to list the acreages of growing crops. The printed pro-forma employed for the purpose listed eight crops: wheat, barley, oats, potatoes, peas, beans, turnips or rape, and rye. Sometimes the clergy also volunteered the details of other crops and of other agricultural matters. The published collation of these details on a county by county basis, and within counties on a parish by parish basis, formed the printed version of the returns in 1982-3 and now also the digital version. Not all parish clergy were able to collect the required details, and some of the original pro-forma must have gone astray. However, something like 47 per cent by area of the parishes of England are covered ranging from over 80 per cent of Worcestershire, the Lindsey Division of Lincolnshire, and the Isle of Wight, to less than one per cent of Suffolk and zero per cent for Nottinghamshire. The omission of Nottinghamshire is a mystery since at the time it was mainly in the Diocese of York, and other counties associated with that diocese have on or over 70 per cent by parish area accounted for. Added: 2009-11-02
Institución Fernando el Católico
http://ifc.dpz.es/
The 'Institución Fernando el Católico' is a public body financed by the government of Aragon (Spain) and the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). Its main goal is the dissemination of studies related to the Spanish region of Aragon, although its editorial and publishing activities often exceed this by covering all aspects of the humanities (in Spanish only). In addition to the catalogue of its numerous publications, the site hosts a virtual library containing full electronic versions of some of the monographs and journals published by this institution. Some of the titles available include: 'The Uses of History'; 'Nationalism and History'; and 'The Quotidian in Medieval Times'. Some of the journals available full-text are: 'Archivo de Filología Aragonesa'; 'Poesía en el Campus'; and 'Revista de Historia Jerónimo Zurita'. However, even though all publications are not available on the virtual library, users may buy some of these in the online shop. Information about events and conferences taking place in Aragon are also available on the site. Added: 2009-11-01
Republic and republicanism
http://republica-republicanisme.uab.es/index.php?lang=eng&view=cover
'Republic and Republicanism' is a website by the Department of Modern and Contemporary History at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona devoted to the Spanish Second Republic (1931-9). It offers historical texts, electronic books and scholarly articles on various facets of this period of Spanish history. The site is available in English; Spanish; and Catalan. However, all texts are in the latter two languages only. The site is divided in thematic sections which cover all main aspects of the social, cultural, and political history of the Second Republic. Some examples are: social bases (workers and artisans; bourgeoisies; peasants); organisation models and political projects; and culture (press; literature; education...). There is also a small section on the Spanish Civil War, and users may alternatively browse the site by resource type (images; articles; books and documents). For those wanting to do some further research, there is a short list of useful links, and a bibliographical section with details about a selection of publications. Added: 2009-11-01
Website de Gabriel Bernat
http://www.gabrielbernat.es/
The personal webpage of Gabriel Bernat provides overviews of a wide range of topics of Early Modern Spanish and Latin-American History. Each topic is divided in further sections, thus making the website an invaluable resource for undergraduate students. Relevant bibliographies are also provided, hence facilitating further research students wish to do on the subject. Users should bear in mind, nonetheless, that the website is available in Spanish only, and references are very often in this language too. Some of the topics covered include: the Spanish Inquisition; Repression of Religious Heresy; Institutions for the Government of the Indies; the 'Conquistador' and the Conquest of America; and Black Slavery in Spanish America. Further resources on the site are a list of useful links, and a blog. Added: 2009-11-01
Centro de investigación y estudios republicanos (CIERE)
http://www.ciere.org/
The 'Centre of Republican Studies and Research' is an independent research institute established in 1985 in Madrid (Spain) to promote studies grounded in humanist and democratic values. The main intellectual background of the centre is the values and cultural heritage of the Spanish Second Republic (1931-9), and it promotes events and studies which focus on any area of political thought and history, although they tend to be mainly about Spain. In addition to the catalogue of resources physically available in the centre's library, the site offers news and information about publications, including the journal 'Cuadernos Republicanos'. The full contents of current and past issues since 2002 can be accessed online for free (lists of contents are provided for issues published between 1993 and 2002). Some examples of articles published here include: 'María Zambrano and the Second Republic'; 'History of the Spanish Republicanism and Federalism of the 19th century'; and 'The peril of Spanish militarism and the need of its death'. Users may also become members of the centre by filling in an online form, although this requires a membership fee. The site will be of interest to any researcher of Spanish political history and/or intellectual history. Added: 2009-11-01
Base documental d'Història Contemporània de Catalunya
http://www.xtec.es/~jrovira6/
The secondary school teacher Pep Rovira has made available an useful collection of approximately 200 historical texts about Catalonia produced during the 19th and 20th centuries. Although they are aimed at secondary students, university tutors may find a very good selection of texts suitable for seminars, and undergraduate students of Catalan Studies may find it useful to have a collection of primary historical sources online. Texts are classified by periods, including: the French War (1808-1914); Fernando VII (1814-1833); Isabel II (1833-1868); 'Sexenio Revolucionario' (1868-1974); Restoration (1874-1931); Second Republic (1931-6); Civil War (1936-9); Francoism (1939-1975); Juan Carlos I (1975-). All texts are accompanied by a short commentary to the text. Additionally, the site offers extra materials such as: statistics; biographies; and a list of the Spanish governments during the 19th and 20th centuries. Added: 2009-11-01
Archivo y memoria
http://www.archivoymemoria.com/index_en.htm
'Archivo y memoria' is a historiographical portal developed by the Spanish Railway History Archive and the Spanish national research council (CSIC). Its main goal is to facilitate interaction between researchers of cultural and historical memory. The portal acts as a means to disseminate information about the activities promoted by 'Archivo y Memoria'. Among these, the most important are the annual conferences which this research institute organises since 2005. Available on the site are the list of papers given in each of the conferences; and in some cases the abstracts, and even electronic versions of the whole paper and/or images used in presentations. Users should note that even though the entire site has been translated into English, most papers are in Spanish only. Some topics covered in the conferences include: Memory, Identity and Audiovisual Sources; The CSIC Archive Collections: Places of Memory; and Memory of the Ephemeral. The website also has a 'Proyects' section, but at the time of cataloguing it was still under construction. Added: 2009-11-01
International Association for Literary Journalism Studies
http://www.ialjs.org/
The website of the International Association for Literary Journalism Studies gives access to information about the association and its work, as well as useful related resources. The association promotes the "study of literary journalism/literary reportage more so than its practices and is devoted to the teaching and researching of literary journalism and literary journalists throughout the world". The society's aims are forwarded in part by: annual conferences; a peer-reviewed journal "Literary Journalism Studies"; and a newsletter. The site provides details of these conferences, as well as the full text of the association's newsletter (in PDF format), and of Literary Journalism Studies (at the time of writing only the first issue, Spring 2009 is available). As well as the usual details on the association's membership and byelaws, the site also gives a list of related links and a promises a blog in the future. Those working and studying in the fields English and Media Studies would find this resource of interest. Added: 2009-11-01
Galactic central
http://www.philsp.com/
Galactic Central is a website devoted to listing science fiction author bibliographies and fiction magazines. The site, compiled by Phil Stephensen-Payne, is divided into three sections: bibliographies of science fiction, fantasy and horror authors; a comprehensive list of more than 7000 fiction magazines (at the time of writing); and oddments regarding bibliographies of other fiction authors. The bibliographies are not available online, generally consisting of descriptions of published books, but would be useful to those researching science fiction. The magazine lists cover a wider range of subjects, including: pulp; adventure; love story; crime; mens and little magazines and would appeal to anyone studying these topics, or researching magazine publication more generally. Images of magazine covers are often included in the magazine lists, together with: publication dates; price; and publisher information. The contents of the site can be browsed by author or title, as appropriate, but there is no dedicated search facility. The lists on the site are still in progress, and the site's creator is keen to hear from anyone with similar interests or who can contribute to information provided. Added: 2009-11-01
Children's Literature Association
http://www.childlitassn.org/
The website of the Children's Literature Association (ChLA) provides information on the association and its aims, as well as information relating to the teaching and study of children's literature. The association, based in the USA, aims to "encourage high standards of criticism, scholarship, research, and teaching in childrens literature". The site provides a brief history of the association and details of its work and membership, as well as information on: conferences; career opportunities for writers and lecturers working in the field; lists of calls for papers; and awards given out by the association. The site also provides details of the ChLA's various publications, including: 'Children's Literature Association Quarterly'; 'ChLA Index'; and the ChLA newsletter, as well as an extensive set of related links and scholarly resources. The ChLA site would be of interest to those researching or teaching various aspects of children's literature, whether from a: literary; sociological; or historical standpoint. Added: 2009-11-01
Francis Lodwick: a working bibliography
http://www.cems.ox.ac.uk/bib_lodwick.shtml
'Francis Lodwick: a working bibliography' is a website created by the Centre for Early Modern Studies at the University of Oxford. The site's aim is to provide more detail about the seventeenth-century linguist and philosopher Francis Lodwick and to enable further study of his works in the absence of other detailed bibliographies. The site gives: a brief biography of Lodwick; a short explanation of the rationale behind the bibliography; and the bibliography itself. This resource sheds some light on a relatively neglected but important figure in English philosophical and linguistic thought, and would interest students and researchers working in: philosophy; English; and linguistics. Added: 2009-11-01
North American conference of British studies
http://www.nacbs.org
The online resource 'North American Conference on British Studies' is the website for this 'scholarly society dedicated to all aspects of the study of British civilization'. Founded in 1950, the society has six regional affiliates and maintains formal relationships with other related institutions and organisations, such as the Institute of Historical Research, University of London, and H-Albion, the H-Net Discussion Network for British and Irish History. NACBS sponsors 'The Journal of British Studies', a scholarly publication that aims to explore issues pertinent to the study of British culture 'from the Middle Ages through the present'. Areas of interest include 'society, politics, law, economics, and the arts'. In 2005, the Journal merged with the NACBS publication 'Albion', creating one official journal for the society members. The resource provides free access to tables of contents for volumes dated 2007 and later; full content is available online by subscription. There is also a link to the 'Albion' archive stored at the Appalachian State University website. NACBS pages also provide information on an annual conference organised by the society and details of other online publications, events, academic prizes, contests and fellowships sponsored by NACBS. In addition, the section 'Affiliates' provides an impressive number of links to websites for related organisations and conferences. Although targeted at the academic audience from North American universities and colleges, comprehensive in scope, up-to-date and informative, this is a valuable resource for all scholars of British culture. Added: 2009-11-01
SCRIBE : spoken corpus of British English
http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/resource/scribe
The online resource 'SCRIBE - Spoken Corpus of British English' provides information on a pilot project that 'investigated the construction of a corpus of spoken British English'. The project ran in the academic year 1989/90 and was funded by the UK Department of Trade and Industry and the UK Science and Engineering Research Council. Research was facilitated by the partnership between the University College London, Cambridge University, Edinburgh University, the Speech Research Unit, and the National Physical Laboratory. This resource is part of the UCL website. Despite the project's short duration, resulting from the shortage of funding, a substantial prototype corpus was collected and partially annotated. The resource describes the current status of the project as well as provides its existing documentation in 'The SCRIBE Manual' that can be viewed online (HTML format). There are also samples of annotated audio recordings which can be downloaded. These have been grouped into two categories: 'Sample of many talker recordings' and 'Sample of few talker recordings'. Both categories provide recordings of male and female speakers, representing four 'dialect areas': South East, Glasgow, Leeds and Birmingham. 'This resource will be of interest, and use, to researchers of spoken English and corpus linguistics. Added: 2009-11-01
Sounds Familiar? Accents and dialects of the UK
http://www.bl.uk/learning/langlit/sounds
The website 'Sounds Familiar? Accents and Dialects of the UK' is one of the British Library online learning resources. It is dedicated to the study of British accents and vocabularies, from a contemporary and historical perspective. Users can investigate recent trends in pronunciation, such as 'upspeak' or 'T-glottaling', or discover how the English of British Asians is influenced by their bilingual status. The resource includes a selection of over seventy audio recordings and more than 600 short audio clips from the British Library Sound Archive. Some of the materials were recorded in the 1950s and others almost half a century later, between 1998 and1999. The resource consists of five main sections: Regional Voices; Changing Voices; Your Voices; Case Studies; and Activities. The first two of these sections focus, respectively, on the regional and historical variations of English. 'Case Studies' looks into three specific English varieties: Received Pronunciation, Geordie Dialect, and the language of ethnic minorities in the UK. Suggested 'Activities' encourage users to investigate the use of English in their own communities, and 'Your Voices' provides them with an opportunity to publish their results on the site. With its interactive character and comprehensive set of audio data and their interpretations, this site is commendable to general audience interested in the subject, as well as students and researchers of linguistics, particularly phonetics and sociolinguistics. Added: 2009-11-01
Thomas and Jane Carlyle's Craigenputtock
http://www.thomascarlyle.eu/
Thomas and Jane Carlyle's Craigenputtock is a website devoted to the life and estate of Scottish nineteenth-century satirist and historian Thomas Carlyle and his wife. The site is the work of the Carlyle Craigenputtock Circle (CCC), a non-profit organisation devoted to the study and promotion of the Carlyle's lives at Craigenputtock and the preservation of the estate. The site provides: a brief biography of Thomas Carlyle; images and description of the Craigenputtock house and estate; information on the CCC and its work; and a number of links relating to Carlyle and his works. This resource would interest anyone studying nineteenth-century English or Scottish literature. Added: 2009-11-01
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