Research

Editing Beckett: Towards a Bilingual Digital Genetic Edition of Samuel Beckett’s Works

This 3-year AHRC project (2022-2025) aims to establish a bilingual digital genetic edition of the Irish writer Samuel Beckett's works.

Bodleian Centre for the Study of the Book

The Centre for the Study of the Book brings together the expertise of academics, library curators, and researchers in all disciplines, to increase engagement with the Bodleian’s special collections in teaching and learning within the University and beyond.

Jane Austen's Fiction Manuscripts Digital Edition

Jane Austen’s Fiction Manuscripts Digital Edition gathers together in the virtual space of the web some 1100 pages of fiction written in Jane Austen’s own hand.

Late Medieval English Scribes

An online catalogue of all scribal hands (identified or unidentified) which appear in the manuscripts of the English writings of five major Middle English authors.

Lincoln Unlocked

Lincoln Unlocked is a teaching and research centre established to support and encourage the study of historic collections.

The Beckett Digital Manuscript Project

The purpose of this project is to reunite the manuscripts of Samuel Beckett's works in a digital way, and to facilitate genetic research.

The Beckett Digital Library

The BDL is a digital reconstruction of Samuel Beckett's personal library, based on the volumes preserved at his apartment in Paris, in archives and private collections.

James Joyce’s Unpublished Letters: A Digital Edition

'James Joyce's Unpublished Letters: A Digital Edition' will interrelate the correspondence of a major modernist writer, James Joyce, to the composition of his novels and will determine Joyce's place within his wide network of correspondents.

James Joyce’s Digital Library

This project is a collaboration between the Centre for Manuscript Genetics (University of Antwerp), the Oxford Centre for Textual Editing and Theory (University of Oxford), the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (Austin, TX), and the James Joyce Collection (University at Buffalo).

Wycliffite Bible: Digital Edition

The Wycliffite Bible: Digital Edition is an outcome of a three-year (2016-19) project, ‘Towards a New Edition of the Wycliffite Bible’, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

Yale Program in the History of the Book

Professor Adam Smyth is taking part, as a representative of the 39 Steps Press, in the forthcoming 2021 Yale Program in the History of the Book.

James Murray Papers

This project, led by Professor Charlotte Brewer, will create a digital edition of the extensive Murray Papers held in Oxford's Bodleian Library. James H. A. Murray (1837-1915) was the first editor of the Oxford English Dictionary.