‘Women were responsible for producing some of the most important and popular texts translated in Renaissance Britain’ – Lucy Painter shares some of her findings from 5 weeks studying a range of translated books from Renaissance Britain.
Tag: History
A Journey Through the Ages: One Page at a Time
Amber Osborne (BA English) shares her experience of undertaking research to help develop a brand new final year English Literature module, ‘Histories of the Book’.
From Lost Property to Postgraduate Study
Rik Sowden, who undertook a UG Research Scholarship in 2016, reflects on his experiences and how they helped him prepare not only for his undergraduate dissertation but also for postgraduate research, as well as fostering his love of history.
Researching Missionary Photography in Cadbury Research Library
In another post from the archives, Charlotte McKnight describes her work with History’s Simone Laqua-O’Donnell and Ivana Frlan from the Cadbury Research Library to identify photography of children in missions (particularly the children of missionaries) – and medical photographs in the Church Missionary Society Archive which is held at the Cadbury Research Library.
Phosphate Mining in North Africa – an Undergraduate Research Project
To celebrate the launch of the UG Research Scholarship scheme 2018, we’ve looked through the archives to showcase some more great student research. Here, History student Joanna Ballaster reflects on her 2016 project researching phosphate mining in North Africa.
At the Crossroads of Empires: the Longobard Church of Sant’Ambrogio at Montecorvino Rovella (Salerno), Italy
Sean Deans (BA Ancient and Medieval History) shares his experiences of working with the ‘At the Crossroad of Empires’ project team to research an early medieval church in Italy, which encompassed everything from archaeological surveying and interviewing local residents to meeting the Mayor and attending a saxophone concert!
The Grenville Collection
Katriona Lawrenson (BA History) blogs about her experiences of cataloguing the collection of John Grenville, a former professor at the University of Birmingham whose extensive archive of microfilms is an important source for US foreign policy at the turn of the 20th century.
The Sound of the ‘Big Bang’: Cataloguing the Douglas French Archive
As a special advisor to the former Chancellor of the Exchequer, Geoffrey Howe, Douglas French was able to gather an extensive (and hitherto unseen) private archive of material relating to the conduct of economic policy in the 1980’s and in particular to the ‘Big Bang’ in financial services of 1986. Here, John Tibbits (BA History and Political Science) explains how he was given the daunting task of digitising this archive.
Creating an Early English Wall Paintings Database
In summer 2017, Ellen Smith was given the task of helping to organise the records of early English wall paintings and so to preserve the memory of these important sources for future generations.
James Watt 2019: Workers’ Research Project
Christopher Olive shares his experiences of exploring the hidden histories of the workers of the engine business.