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Web Projects
The REED Patrons and Performances Web Site
Professional performers of all kinds in England and
Wales toured to provincial towns, monasteries and private residences
before 1642. The REED Patrons and Performances Web Site includes a
wide range of data about professional performers on tour in the
provinces – their patrons, the performance venues they used and the
routes they took across the kingdom.
Data relating to 27 REED collections have been uploaded to date,
linked with an interactive map to illustrate the medieval and
renaissance routes performers followed across the kingdom. As well as
directing the work of a gifted development team, I have contributed the
historical geographic research for mapping the routes and the new
content for performance venues in 19 counties and cities – Bath,
Bristol, Cambridge, Cheshire, Chester, Cornwall, Coventry, Cumberland,
Devon, Lancashire, Lincolnshire, Newcastle upon Tyne, Norwich, Somerset,
Sussex, Westmorland, York and parts of Shropshire and the Inns of Court
on the outskirts of historic London.
Keep watching this site! We are currently developing a new integrated interface for research data and updated GIS mapping that should launch by early 2015.
Early Modern London Theatres
EMLoT aims to locate, assess and digest all published
transcriptions of documents relating to professional performance in
purpose-built theatres in the London area before 1642. Its emphasis on
late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century play editions and other works
as sources for understanding the pre-1642 theatre distinguishes EMLoT
from most other reference works, which have tended to overlook the rich
material available from this period. The first phase of this website focuses on eight theatres north of the Thames but data is being added for theatres south of the Thames, starting with the Hope/Bear Gardens, Newington Butts and Philip Henslow's Rose.
On the Road Again: Tracking Itinerant Performers through Time
In 2015 a SSHRC Connections grant made possible the conversion of this partnership portal to a new Drupal site that connects data from primary sources such as historic documents with images, GIS mapping and newspaper clippings, for the study and understanding of touring entertainment from the 14th to the 20th centuries in Britain and North America. Itinerant performers have much in common across centuries and countries. They travel similar routes, perform in varied locations and circulate cultural practices.
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