Limina : a journal of historical and cultural studies
'Limina: a journal of historical and cultural studies' is a full-text ejournal. This refereed annual ejournal is published by a cross-disciplinary group of postgraduates at The University of Western Australia. At February 2009 there are 16 issues online, freely offering articles in PDF format. There is also a special edition from 2007, titled 'On The Beach: Liminal Spaces in Historical and Cultural Contexts'. Example article titles from the archives include: 'Subcinema: Theorising Marginal Fil
Bill Palmer home page
Bill Palmer is a member of the Surrey Morphology Group and is currently working on an Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded research project concerning the use of possessive morphology to index subject on verbs in languages of the Northwest Solomonic branch of Oceanic (Austronesian). His homepage contains links to published and draft papers; a bibliography with links to some dictionaries of various languages; his PhD-thesis and masters thesis; and information about his field researc
National library of Australia : digital collections
This is the Web portal for the online digital collections offered by The National Library of Australia. Collections include... "pictures, rare historical maps, early Australian printed music, manuscripts belonging to famous Australians, selected printed works from our Australian and overseas collections, and selected audio recordings". The website offers simple navigation of the collections by media type, or by a keyword search engine. At May 2009 the website offers open access to: 1,700 books,
emaj : electronic Melbourne art journal
'emaj: electronic Melbourne art journal' is a full-text refereed ejournal published from the University of Melbourne, featuring scholarly articles on art history in Australia and beyond. At June 2009 there are three issues online, with articles freely available for download in PDF format. Example article titles include: 'Wolfgang Sievers and the revisionism of Australian migrant art'; 'Changing museum environments: global articulations of the 'Video Text' (1968–1990)'; and 'The guitar, the muse
United Islands? multi-lingual radical poetry and folk song in Britain and Ireland, 1770-1820
This website describes an AHRC-funded research network, bringing together scholars with collectors and performers of folksong and poetry, to “discuss the fate of non-canonical poetry/folksong in the period 1770-1820”. This radical and anti-establishment poetry has long been overlooked, and the opportunity has only recently arisen to discuss it from an intra-national perspective (with the history of the British Isles seen as a complex and contradictory “zone of cultural conflict
Language, religion and print culture in the Welsh diaspora
This short Web page introduces an AHRC-funded research network concerned “the ways in which Welsh identity was preserved and adapted” by the Welsh diaspora in North and South America. Bringing together scholars with backgrounds in Welsh literature, linguistics, history, religion and Welsh identities the group held four meetings in Bangor between 2006-2007, brief details of which are provided.
Early cinema and the diasporic imagination : the Irish in America 1890-1930
This PDF document briefly summarises an AHRC-funded research network into “the role and representation of Irish immigrants within US cinema”, drawing new ideas of the role of audience taste on the shaping of early cinema and “the contradictory dynamic between ethnic assertion and cultural assimilation faced by the immigrant communities within the US”. The network was conceived as very much a multinational one, with academics from the UK, US and Ireland contributing, and w
Modelling, interpretation and alternate representations : visualization technology, heritage buildin
This is the website for an AHRC-funded research cluster aiming to apply visualization techniques to heritage sites under threat from coastal erosion and buildings in Wales and Ireland. It brings together computer scientists, archaeologists and heritage managers and organisations including the National Museums of Wales and Ireland, the National Trust and English Heritage. In doing so, through as series of workshops (details available), it will allow the application of computer modelling technolo
BWELT.net : bibliography of Welsh literature in English translation
BWLET.net is a website offering a free database of Welsh literature in English translation. BWLET claims to be "first comprehensive listing of Welsh-English literary translation from its beginnings in the eighteenth century to the present day". The database is searchable by: keyword; author; title; publisher; and date. Each entry gives bibliographic information about each translation, enabling students and researchers working on Welsh literature to more easily find relevant works. The websit
Program in Aegean scripts and prehistory
The Program in Aegean Scripts and Prehistory (PASP) website presents the work of a research centre at the University of Texas. There are news presented in the form of a blog; reports of activities; editorials and articles by staff members; the Studies in Mycenaean Inscriptions and Dialect (SMID) online database; The PASP database for the use of scripts on Cyprus; the Alice Kober, Michael Ventris and Emmett L. Bennett, Jr. archive (finding aids only available online, but a full digitisation progr
Middlebrow network
This is the website of The Middlebrow Network, an AHRC-funded project developing research around the “loaded and disreputable term” ‘middlebrow’. Coined in the early twentieth century, ‘middlebrow’ can be defined as referring to “moderately intellectual” cultural production, perceived by some as of limited value. This network aims to debate the term itself, and consider how it may be understood in different fields as well as investigating specific
Revista de lengua y literatura catalana, gallega y vasca
The "Revista de Lengua y Literatura Catalana, Gallega y Vasca" (Journal of Catalan, Galician, and Basque Language and Literature) is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal by the Spanish Open University (UNED). It was first published in 1991 with the aim of bringing together comparative philological studies on Hispanic literatures. At the time of cataloguing, it was available the full-text content for the 13 issues published between 1991 and 2008. Each number includes research articles, book reviews,
Stadt Zürich : kultur
The website for the Stadt Zürich (the City of Zurich) provides this online resource on the collections in the Museum Rietberg, the only art museum in Switzerland for non-European cultures. The collection is organised under the following countries: Africa, Ancient America, China, India, Japan, ancient orient, Islamic near east, Swiss masks, South East Asia, Oceania and Tibet. These collections are intended to raise interest and understanding of foreign cultures, views and religion, and are a gr
Karim Rashid
This is the website of award-winning designer Karim Rasid, who was born in Cairo in 1960 to Egyptian and English parents, raised in Canada, and is now based in New York. As well as a biography his website includes his manifesto which advocates that high-quality design should be available to everyone. For him design is not just about solving problems but about "a rigorous beautification of our built environments". The main sections of the website relate to the different aspects of his design work
Motley collection of theatre and costume design
This is the website of the Motley Collection of Theatre and Costume Design, which forms part of the Book and Special Collections Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. The collection contains documentation on the history of theatre. It contains original materials on theatre comprising over 5000 items from more than 150 productions in England and the United States. These materials include costume and set designs, sketches, notes, photographs, prop lists, storyboards, and swatc
Art of the embroiderer
This is the website for the online companion to the exhibition “The Art of the Embroiderer” hosted by the Broadbent Gallery, Kent State University Museum, in Kent, Ohio, from September 2008 to December 2009. The exhibition contains over 80 garments and textiles from across the world spanning over 200 years of creativity and innovation. Garments vary from haute couture gowns to Japanese kimono and Saudi Arabian caftans. A notable exhibit is Christian Dior's "Vénus", a ball gown of pink tulle e
Balzac's Paris: a guided tour
This is a virtual tour of the Paris which existed at the time of Balzac the great French novelist. It was produced using online maps, engravings and other visual materials from the Vernon Duke Collection, University of California Riverside. The compilers explain that the Paris Balzac knew (1799-1850) has largely disappeared. However, it helps enormously to understand his novels, many set there, if we can know something of the early nineteenth century capital city. The tour is divided into 4 p
Force de l'art 02
This website is for 'La Force de l'Art', a triennial exhibition held as part of Monumenta at the refurbished Grand Palais in Paris. There is information on the website about the different venues used for the exhibition in 'Sites', including The Grand Palais, The Eiffel Tower and The Louvre Museum among others, there is also a section about the purpose built architectural work inside the Palais. There is a list of artists taking part in the exhibition, with a brief biography and project descripti
Bibliothèque du film (BIFI)
This is the website of the Bibliotheque du Film (BIFI), based in Paris, which is the equivalent of the BFI Library in London. In 2005 it moved to a new site at rue de Bercy and contains the screening rooms of the Cinematheque Francaise and an exhibition space. The nearest metro is Bercy, southeast Paris.The BIFI contains books, periodicals, and a VHS/DVD collection. There is also a stills collection. The special collections section (Espace chercheurs) is only open in the afternoon, and booking n
staatsvertrag.at : eine akustische Webausstellung zur Nachkriegsgeschichte in Österreich
Staatsvertrag.at: eine akustische Webausstellung zur Nachkriegsgeschichte in Österreich (State treaty: an acoustic Web exhibition on post-war history in Austria) is an online exhibition of historical sound samples presented by Österreichische Mediathek, the audio-visual archive of the Technical Museum of Vienna. The site offers samples that convey the mood of the period 1945 to 1955 in Austria, not only in terms of the international treaty that saw Austria's rebuilding under Allied occupation
