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Ageing and Biomedicine

The configuration of ageing offers great scope for a critical inquiry into the structure of contemporary bio-political governmentality and associated ... Read more»

Project staff: Paolo Palladino
Keywords: Ageing, History, Science and technology studies, Sociology

Common Rules. The regulation of institutions for managing commons in Europe 1100-1800

The project, funded by the Netherlands Research Council (NOW), is a partnership between scholars in the universities of Utrecht, (Netherlands), Navarr ... Read more»

CREME (Corpus Research in Early Modern English

We are an interdisciplinary research group which is combining established areas of research excellence at Lancaster University. The emergent synthesis ... Read more»

Project staff: Jonathan Culpeper (Linguistics and English Language), Alison Findlay (English and Creative Writing), Ian Gregory, Andrew Hardie (Linguistics and English Language), Liz Oakley-Brown (English and Creative Writing), Stephen Pumfrey, Paul Rayson (Computing and Communications), Naomi Tadmor
Keywords: Automatic content analysis, Corpus linguistic methodology, Corpus linguistics, Corpus tools, Digital humanities, Discourse analysis, Early modern England, Early modern English, Historical and diachronic corpora, History of English, History of experimental science, History of medicine, History of philosophy, History of science, History of the Book, Interdisciplinary collaboration, Language change, Linguistics, Natural philosophy, Religious history, Seventeenth century, Seventeenth-century culture, Seventeenth-century literature, Sixteenth-century, Sixteenth-century culture, Sixteenth-century literature, Theatre history

Disputatious Societies: the 17th-century Caribbean

This is a generic title given to a host of research projects made possible by the collection and centralisation of globally-dispersed primary sources ... Read more»

Project staff: Sarah Barber

English Folk Society

This project uses a number of different types of source - expanding the theoretical and methodological base of history - to construct a 'folk' definit ... Read more»

Project staff: Sarah Barber

Lancashire Manorial Records

This project, funded by The National Archives (TNA), aims to complete an up-to-date and electronic version of the Manorial Documents Register (MDR) fo ... Read more»

The Coe press

This work supplements an article published in _History Workshop Journal_ (70, 2010, pp.1-26), which analyses the history of a single woodcut image, ov ... Read more»

Keywords: Art, Art/cultural history, Seventeenth century, Seventeenth-century culture, Seventeenth-century radical sects, Teaching and assessment, Teaching and learning, The pedagogy of history, Violence, Visual culture

Victoria County History - Cumbria

This project is a partnership between the History Department at Lancaster, the Institute of Historical Research at the University of London (which own ... Read more»

Village Byelaws

This project aims to build a corpus of agrarian byelaws from northern England in the late-medieval and early modern periods, to provide materials to a ... Read more»

Project staff: Angus Winchester
Keywords: Agriculture, Archives, Common land, Environment, Landscape, Law, Regions

World of William Gilbert

A Gilbert website is being developed with three aims: (1) to provide information and links on Gilbert and Gilbert-related research; (2) to provide occ ... Read more»

Project staff: Stephen Pumfrey