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Mapping Museums Data, September 2021
No full textThese files contain the data, metadata and schema diagrams of the database produced by the AHRC-funded Mapping Museums project, 2016-2021, as of the end of the funded project on 30th September 2021. The data relates to UK museums that were open between 1960 and 2020
Úna Gan a Gúna: Irish Women's Oral History Collection
No full textThe Úna Gan a Gúna: Irish Women’s Oral History Project exists to ensure that the memories of Irish women from the 1930s onwards are heard and are recorded and kept as a part of Irish history and the histories of Irish people travelling out and across the world. This is achieved through recording and preserving oral histories and, in the process, bringing different generations of women together to share past experiences: good times and sad times, learning from each other, passing on our stories.
We gather the stories, memories and opinions of Irish women born in each decade of the twentieth century and keep copies of any documents (such as photographs, letters or diaries) they may wish to share. The lives of Irish women changed dramatically during this time and we want to find out how much their experiences and attitudes have changed or stayed constant over the decades
Interview with Ruth Beecher in Gipsy Hill, London, England 10.04.2018.
Full text linkRuth Beecher was interviewed by her eldest daughter Amy. Ruth was born in Cork in 1968, the elder of two children. She describes secondary school, holidays in East Cork, and her social life as a teenager which included drinking underage in pubs and having house parties. Ruth talks about her parents’ difficult relationship. She describes her mother’s depression (following her own’s mother’s suicide when she was in her twenties) and hospitalisation for ‘a breakdown’ after giving birth to Ruth. Ruth describes ‘glorious’ teenage years in Cork, the move to London at the age of twenty in 1989 and life as a new emigrant. Ruth describes her unplanned pregnancy and being an anxious and self-conscious new mother. She talks about her excitement at being higher education at Birkbeck, University of London in the early 1990s and wonders if she would have ever been able to take up those opportunities to self-fund a BA, MA and PhD had university fees been as expensive then as they are today
Interview with Bairbre McDonagh recorded in Leeds on 25.06.2019
Full text linkBairbre was born in Dublin in 1971 and grew up in Limerick, the second of four siblings. She describes how she was compared to her older sister and how both at school and at home she was made to feel not clever enough. Outside school she learned music and was good at sport. She reflects on family life and the role of her mother as homemaker. After her Leaving Certificate exams she attended Dublin Institute of Technology and then completed her studies in London. She describes how she was keen to leave Limerick but also enjoyed meeting up with friends on her return and going clubbing in Limerick. While studying in London she made some good friends and met her husband. Her first holiday in Ireland with him prompted an awkward conversation about sex with her mother which she tried found embarrassing. Once her course finished she started working in London and eventually recruited her boyfriend (now husband) to the same company
Urban conceptions of nature during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic
No full textAnonymised transcripts of two interviews with Hackney residents. Photos taken by them showing 'nature' in their local area. PDF slides where these were shown back to them during the second interview
Subjection in the human:non-human encounter tweets and code
No full textThe data was collected as part of a dissertation project for the MA Psychoanalytic Studies 2020-2021. The project is entitled "Subjection in the human:non-human encounter". The purpose is to understand the emotional and psychological reactions of a human encountering a non-human, and how it affects their process of subjection.
The Twitter Academia API was used to search for tweets with the phrase "you are a bot", and the surrounding "threads" of the tweets were collected for contextual conversation data.
The tweets were transformed into semiotic tweets which accentuated the psycholinguistics markings of the text using a series of original techniques detailed in the java code named dissertation-code.
The transformed tweets were then clustered using K-means algorithm to try and decipher the range of emotional reactions twitter users had when realising they were encountering a bot. The results of the clustering are in the data set, as well as the code used to perform the clustering
Dungeness beach GPR and topographic survey
No full textGround-penetrating radar (GPR) survey of shingle beach ridges at Dungeness, UK. Data collected using Pulse EKKO Pro GPR with 200 MHz antennas. There are 7 GPR profiles perpendicular to the coastline, Beach 1-7. They start next to the coast road and head towards the sea in 50m sections labelled A, B, C etc. The GPR data is in the .dt files while header data describing each file is .hd. Topographic data collected for static elevation corrections at 1 m intervals along the line of section is in 7 .top files
The social effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on older adults
No full textThe dataset contains data collected for a dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of MSc Social Research at Birkbeck, University of London, September 2021. The dissertation was supervised by Dr Dale Mineshima Lowe.
The dataset contains interview transcripts with seven older adults aged 69-89 living in England, focusing on their experiences and perspectives of the COVID-19 pandemic
4chan /pol board as a temporary evolution of live threads and posts.
No full textWe monitored the live /pol board on 4chan and scraped data from each thread multiple times during their time in the board and additionally (but not included in this dataset), scraped the archive status of the thread as exposed by the 4chan API and 4pleb (internet archiving service) API.
Included in this dataset there is a three month extract of data scraped from 4chan during the period from 1st of April 2021 to 1st of July 202