Archives Hub is a search engine that indexes archival  holdings in Great Britain. Arts and humanities collections include :

• Bicentenary of the birth of Charles Dickens: collections of Dickens’ life and works
• A Cabinet of Curiosities: folk beliefs and parapsychology; some of our more curious collections.
• D H Lawrence (1885-1930): The D.H. Lawrence Collection at the University of Nottingham’s Department of Manuscripts and Special Collections forms one of the major international research resources for the study of D.H. Lawrence.
• Irish Melodies: the music and literature of 18th century Ireland; Irish poet, satirist, composer, and musician Thomas Moore (1779-1852) drew much inspiration from the melodies collected by Edward Bunting (1773-1843), a collector of Irish folk songs, and by Bishop Thomas Percy (1729-1811), an author, poet and antiquarian.  {See more…)

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This project statement, Can 20 Million+ documents change the First World War?, offers an engaging introduction to Muninn, an interdisciplinary project which aims to reshape our understanding of the experience and cultural legacy of the First World War through data-mining and digital humanities methodologies.

One hundred years after the outbreak of the conflict, digital humanities and data-mining are in a position to significantly enhance the study of the First World War and to shape the future of this field. In a sense, new scholarly initiatives like Muninn may be seen as a continuation of scholarly enterprises that originated in the 1960s and 1970s with the emergence of a new type of quantitative history supported by advances in computing. Military records – personal services files in particular – were mobilized to illuminate the social composition and anthropological experience of combat between 1914 and 1918 (see Jules Maurin’s work for instance).

Since then, however, the historiography of the war has largely neglected if not wholly abandoned these perspectives. The gradual but undeniable decline of quantitative history and the increasing dominance of cultural history combined, as in other fields of historical research, to consign the analysis of large data-sets to the margins of the historiography. Indeed, one cannot help being struck by the fact that most interpretative debates and controversies pertaining to the First World War continue to mobilize and hinge on a small number of individual testimonies and corpora of limited size.[More]

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The National Citizen and Ballot Box was a monthly journal deeply involved in the roots of the American feminist movement. It was owned and edited by Matilda Joslyn Gage, American women’s rights advocate, who helped to lead and publicize the suffrage movement in the United States. Gage bought The Ballot Box, a publication of a Toledo, Ohio suffrage association, in 1878 when its editor, Sarah R.L. Williams, decided to retire. Gage renamed it the National Citizen and Ballot Box, and included her intentions for the paper in a prospectus: “Its especial object will be to secure national protection to women citizens in the exercise of their rights to vote…it will oppose Class Legislation of whatever form…Women of every class, condition, rank and name will find this paper their friend.” Gage, along with Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, was a founding member of the National Woman Suffrage Association and served in various offices of that organization for twenty years. She co-authored with Stanton and Anthony the first three volumes of A History of Woman Suffrage. In 1879 The National Citizen and Ballot Box published the early sections of this work, including Stanton’s account of the first women’s rights convention in Seneca Falls in 1848, of which she was believed to have been the driving force. The newspaper was used prior to printing in book form in order to provide an opportunity for comment. [to the database]

The Lily the first newspaper for women, was issued from 1849 until 1853 under the editorship of Amelia Bloomer (1818-1894). Published in Seneca Falls, New York and priced at 50 cents a year, the newspaper began as a temperance journal for “home distribution” among members of the Seneca Falls Ladies Temperance Society, which had formed in 1848. Although women’s exclusion from membership in temperance societies and other reform activities was the main force behind the initial publication of The Lily, it was not at first a radical paper, its editorial stance conforming to the emerging stereotype of women as “defenders of the home.” [to the database]

Godey’s Lady’s Book In Philadelphia in 1830 Louis Antoine Godey (1804-1878) commenced the publication of Godey’s Lady’s Book which he designed specifically to attract the growing audience of American women. The magazine was intended to entertain, inform and educate the women of America. In addition to extensive fashion descriptions and plates, the early issues included biographical sketches, articles about mineralogy, handcrafts, female costume, the dance, equestrienne procedures, health and hygiene, recipes and remedies and the like. Each issue also contained two pages of sheet music, written essentially for the pianoforte. Gradually the periodical matured into an important literary magazine containing extensive book reviews and works by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and many other celebrated 19th century authors who regularly furnished the magazine with essays, poetry and short stories. Godey’s Lady’s Book also was a vast reservoir of handsome illustrations which included hand-colored fashion plates, mezzotints, engravings, woodcuts and, ultimately, chromolithographs. In 1836 Godey purchased the Boston-based American Ladies’ Magazine which he merged with his own publication. Most importantly, Sarah Josepha Hale (1788-1879) became the new editor of Godey’s Lady’s Book. Mrs. Hale brought substance to the magazine, and wrote frequently about the notion of “women’s sphere.” In 1846 she stated, “The time of action is now. We have to sow the fields—the harvest is sure. The greatest triumph of this progression is redeeming woman from her inferior position and placing her side by side with man, a help-mate for him in all his pursuits.” Her steadfast devotion of purpose and her unwavering editorial principles regarding social inequalities and the education of American women, made her one of the most important editors of her time. Under Mrs. Hale’s tutelage the magazine flourished, reaching a pre-Civil War circulation of 150,000. Godey and Hale became a force majeure in American publishing and together produced a magazine which today is considered to be among the most important resources of 19th century American life and culture. [to the database]

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Tom Clarke and Kathleen Clarke Papers, 1890 -1972.

Papers of Tom Clarke and Kathleen Clarke (née Daly). Includes their own personal letters to each other and further correspondence with family, friends and political associates in Ireland and among the Irish community in America. Among the correspondents are Daly Clarke, Edward Daly, Eamon De Valera, John Devoy, John Dillon, James Egan, James Hamilton, 2nd Duke of Abercorn, Tim Harrington, Linda McKeown, Una Moran, Blainaid Ní Carnaigh, Bríd Ní Congaile, Margaret Pearse, Padraic Pearse, John Redmond and Austin Stack. Also included is documentation relating to Tom Clarke’s imprisonment in Chatham and Portland prisons, the campaign to secure his release and his subsequent political activism both in Ireland. Kathleen Clarke’s political engagement in organisations such as Cumann na mBan, the Irish Volunteer Dependents Fund, Sinn Fein and Fianna Fáil and her opposition to the Anglo-Irish Treaty are also represented in the collection. [read more]

William O’Brien (1881-1968) Papers, 1898-1969.

These papers are of seminal importance to the history of the Labour movement in Ireland, and in particular, the contribution of James Connolly during the period 1898-1916. Labour leader William O’Brien collected a vast amount of material relating, not just to his own extensive involvement in the movement spanning five decades, but also the correspondence and papers of his comrades and associates. There is extensive material in this collection relating to the activities of the left in Dublin from 1898 onwards, including papers pertaining to the Irish Socialist Republican Party of Ireland, founded by James Connolly in 1898, and the Irish Citizen Army, founded by Jack White and James Larkin in 1913. O’Brien collected considerable material relating to the 1913 Lockout and the 1916 Rising, the two most seminal events of his political life, including a vast collection of primary documents consisting of letters, organisational material and propaganda. Papers pertaining to the publication of the Worker’s Republic newspaper, edited by James Connolly, and extensive correspondence pertaining to Connolly’s endeavours in the United States from 1903-1910, personal letters between Connolly and his wife, and letters between Connolly and his American comrades, are of particular value to researchers. There are also considerable papers covering O’Brien’s own involvement in the Labour movement following the Easter Rising, through the turbulence of the War of Independence and the Civil War that followed. [read more]