Projects
Bloomfield and Chatterton
This is an ongoing project, funded by the English Subject Centre, to develop an information base for teaching and research on the lesser-known Romantic poets Thomas Chatterton and Robert Bloomfield. Useful weblinks.
The John Clare Forum
The John Clare Forum, founded in 1994, has developed major research material on Clare including 16 volumes of the John Clare Society Journal, two volumes of critical essays and many other printed and online editorial materials, and has hosted numerous seminars and other events, with speakers including Tom Paulin and Jonathan Bate.
The Dorothy Gott Project
This Panacea Society-funded project aims to recover the life and writings of the ex-Quaker prophetess Dorothy Gott (1748-1812) in order to broaden our understanding of the turn of the 18th Century:
- millenarian literature and ideas
- women's writing
- religious and spiritual cultures
- and female roles in society.
The Labouring-Class Writers Project
Studies the history and culture of working men and women in the period 1700 to 1900 and contains information about more than 1,400 writers. The Project offers first-hand accounts of working lives, and important perspectives on labour, technology and the workplace - information often available from no other historical source.
The Laura Riding Jackson (1901-1991) archive
This archive houses a collection of over 1000 letters and documents pertaining to the poet and author. It is the largest collection of material relating to Laura Riding Jackson outside of Cornell University.
The Little Magazines Project
The project centres on providing a database of those little literary magazines publishing creative, often innovative, work in literature and the other arts with little or no regard for commercial gain. It features bibliographical entries for over 2,500 magazines from 1945 onwards, as well as full indexes for a large number of these titles.
The Maria Graham Project
Aims to re-evaluate the life and work of one of the leading female travellers of the early 19th Century, and to make available to other scholars a number of resources relating to Graham's career.
Raymond Williams Research Archives
These archives are of unique importance to anyone studying the literary scene in England of the past sixty or so years. They include material by or about Gael Turnbull, Peter Russell, Anne Stevenson and G. S. Fraser.
The trAce Archive
Features an archive of original new media writing, incisive articles, innovative webdesign, and a broad range of resources, news, discussions and research. Supported by the Arts Council, England, NESTA, the British Council and the Royal Literary Fund.
Trent Editions
Aims to recover and publish landmark texts in handsome and affordable modern editions, by writers such as H.G. Wells, Storm Jameson, and John Clare, edited by such researchers as Dorothy Thompson, John Lucas, John Barrell and Tim Chilcott. It holds collections of accessible critics and commentary on subjects relating to those central to NifER's research project, including volumes by Peter Porter, Ronald Blythe and John Lucas.
The Sir Joseph Banks Archive Project
The Sir Joseph Banks Archive Project undertakes scholarly work surveying, editing and publishing in volumes the papers of Sir Joseph Banks, which were scattered following his death in 1820.
