• Did William the Conqueror’s wife, Matilda, commission the Bayeux Tapestry?

    Updated: 2012-05-31 11:33:53
    This edited article about the Bayeux Tapestry originally appeared in Look and Learn issue number 715 published on 27 September 1975. Queen Matilda and her famous Bayeux Tapestry by Kronheim Soon after William of Normandy had conquered England a beautiful tapestry was woven to record the historic event. It is believed that it was commissioned [...]

  • Celtic Digital Initiative

    Updated: 2012-05-30 09:00:20
    “The aim of the Celtic Digital Initiative (CDI) is to make scarce resources available in an electronic format to students and scholars…There are five major sections: Images (digitised pictures of interest to Celticists), Text Archive (PDF files of rare material), Articles (PDF files of selected publications by staff members), Celtic Noticeboard (an area devoted to [...]

  • The Word on the Street

    Updated: 2012-05-28 09:00:20
    The Word on the Street is a National Library of Scotland archive of 1,800 Scottish broadsides from 1650-1910. The broadside was the tabloid of its time: single sheets of news, speeches and songs pinned up on walls of houses and ale-houses to inform and entertain the public of the day. There is, for example, an 1870 [...]

  • Chronicle

    Updated: 2012-05-25 09:00:58
    In April 2012, BBC Northern Ireland, JISC and BUFVC launched Chronicle, “a project to make BBC Northern Ireland’s television news from the 1960s and 1970s available to the academic community online…Chronicle will provide Authenticated Users with access to digitised copies of news and current affairs material covering Northern Ireland and ‘The Troubles’, along with web-based [...]

  • Landmap Workshop for GIS Researchers

    Updated: 2012-05-22 12:45:55
    The Landmap Service provides UK academia with high quality spatial data, enhanced and supported by a range of learning materials. Landmap’s optical, radar, elevation and feature collections give a combination of remotely sensed imagery and spatial data. Landmap have recently added new Northern Ireland information to their datasets, and they have arranged a Landmap Roadshow [...]

  • CFP: Shakespeare Institute Review

    Updated: 2012-05-17 19:23:24
    The Shakespeare Institute Review is a new online academic journal, which is funded by the University of Birmingham College of Arts and Law. It is run by four research students at the Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon, UK. Students at this institution, and on other postgraduate Shakespeare programmes, are invited and encouraged to contribute short papers for [...]

  • Olympic records available online (UK)

    Updated: 2012-05-17 12:01:07
    Hundreds of historic documents and images relating to the Olympic and Paralympic Games have been made available online by The National Archives for the first time. The new site, The Olympic Record, includes a timeline feature which enables visitors to track back through time and browse material from every summer Olympics, from Athens in 1896 [...]

  • Taverns, locals and street corners: New AHRC Project on Tavern Culture

    Updated: 2012-05-14 10:05:52
    Taverns, locals and street corners Taverns, locals and street corners: Cross-chronological studies in community drinking, regulation and public space Project This AHRC Connected Communities pilot study on tavern culture (2012) ranges from early modern Europe to the present day. It investigates whether today’s real and imagined patterns of drinking – people congregating in public spaces at [...]

  • Scopus Enhancements

    Updated: 2012-05-11 15:13:10
    Scopus, the world’s largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature, is now available off-campus. Once you log in to the Portal, you should get seamless access to Scopus. If you haven’t used Scopus or the affiliated database ScienceDirect before, you may need to fill out a one-time registration form to set up a user [...]

  • CFP: Art and its Afterlives, Courtauld Institute of Art

    Updated: 2012-05-09 19:39:07
    Art and Its Afterlives Fourth Early Modern Symposium Saturday 17 November 2012 The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 0RN CALL FOR PAPERS Art and Its Afterlives aims to address the ways in which the work of art continues to resonate after its creation. While much art history takes as its focus [...]

  • Society of Apothecaries 400th Anniversary Celebration

    Updated: 2012-05-05 14:54:59
    The Society of Apothecaries celebrates its 400th Anniversary in 2017. Its hall was built on the site of the guest house of the Dominican Friary, dissolved by Henry VIII in 1538. On 26 June Dr Nick Holder will be giving a talk about the history of the site and the remains still extant. [He has [...]

  • Music webcasts from Library of Congress

    Updated: 2012-05-05 09:00:15
    The following are twelve music webcasts delivered at Library of Congress: Franz Liszt Niccolo Paganini & Lady Gaga;  Dvorak in the New world;   Tchaikovsky & Taneyev: Mentor and Protégé;  Messiaen’s Quartet;  Wordless Music Orchestra;  Schumann Trio (playing works of Mozart and Brahms);  Concert: Gautier Capuçon & Gabriela Monterio;  The English concert;  Mahan Esfahani: harpsichord concert;  What [...]

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