DOGE used ChatGPT to assess whether our NEH grant was "DEI" before terminating it and thousands of others. Project lead @mattieburkert.bsky.social has filed a declaration in the lawsuit led by @historians.org @modernlanguage.bsky.social @acls1919.bsky.social @authorsguild.org. Read more on our blog:
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Today's #theaterthursday may be more serious than usual, but it’s FULL of intriguing London Stage history!
Curious about male perception of women in 18th century playhouses? Craving details on London’s coffeehouse culture?
Check out our March 5th spotlight here: blogs.uoregon.edu/londonstage/...
#digitalhumanities #18thc #theaterhistory
Nothing makes us happier than hearing how the London Stage Database helps our users research!
Check out our blog to read about how researcher Lesley Dunlop used the LSDB in her local history article and for a guide on how YOU might go about searching the database!
blogs.uoregon.edu/londonstage/...
Happy #theaterthursday!
This week we celebrate the return of the King’s Company after a fire left them tragically theater-less.
Read about the 🔥 on Drury Lane and the company’s return to the stage here: blogs.uoregon.edu/londonstage/...
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Hey fans of the London Stage! It’s our 3rd #theaterthursday ! 🎉
Feb. 19, 1785: Drury Lane’s Macbeth sees a clash of genres! The witches may have been breaking character SNL-style, but icon Sarah Siddons remained SUBLIME as Lady Macbeth.
Read about it on our blog! blogs.uoregon.edu/londonstage/...
#theaterthursday 🎭
On this day in history, 1661: Samuel Pepys sees a show, says women (now on-stage) make it "much better" than previously all-male casts, and ends the night with an ale!
More RE: Pepys's night out here
blogs.uoregon.edu/londonstage/...
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It's #theaterthursday, our new weekly blog series spotlighting London Stage events from this day in history!
Feb. 5, 1704: a story of rival sopranos and ORANGES thrown from the audience!
Read about the 🍊 ordeal here: blogs.uoregon.edu/londonstage/...
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It's a bird! It's a plane! It's- new Research Assistants for the London Stage Database!?
You heard that right folks! 🎉 Read all about our new RAs, Ceilidh and Rose, in our latest blog post!
blogs.uoregon.edu/londonstage/...
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Attention all fans of The London Stage Database! 📣
Thanks to a new, internal grant, the LSDB is officially able to resume active development! Read our blog post about the news here:
blogs.uoregon.edu/londonstage/...
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The website is back up and running, now with the improved "Related Works" feature and the new "Print Witnesses" extension of that feature. Big shout out to Dennis Pipes for a last-minute assist!
For more on what's new, check out our blog: blogs.uoregon.edu/londonstage/...
Friendly reminder that the LSDB website will be down for scheduled maintenance starting at 3:30 Pacific / 6:30 Eastern time.
The LSDB website will be down for about an hour later this week while we roll out a new feature (!!!). The outage is scheduled for Thursday 9/26 at 3:30 p.m. Pacific time. Check out our blog for a preview, and watch this space for more updates. blogs.uoregon.edu/londonstage/...
The LSDB will experience a brief outage around 4pm pacific time today (Tuesday) while we update the database to reflect some recent record housekeeping. It should only last 10-15 minutes. Thanks for your understanding!
TIL that our database includes performances of a play called "A Rehearsal of Kings; or, The Projecting Gingerbread Baker: With the unheard of Catastrophe of Macplunderkan, King of Roguomania and the Ignoble Fall of Baron Troperland, King of Clouts" #academicsky #digitalhumanities #theaterhistory
Red button a black background, with white text that reads "I'm human."
LSDB dataset downloads are now protected with Recapcha. You don't have to pick out the motorcycles, just click a button that says "I'm human." Read about why on the blog: blogs.uoregon.edu/londonstage/...
The London Stage Database website may experience periodic outages tomorrow, August 6, during business hours (U.S. Pacific Daylight Time), due to planned server maintenance. Everything should be back to normal by Thursday, August 7. Thanks for understanding!
Using records from the London Stage Database, Emma traces performances of several 18th-century rehearsal plays, showing how this genre took center stage in raging debates over the roles of women in the entertainment industry. cdn.knightlab.com/libs/timelin...
New on the blog: check out this this interactive timeline created by Research Assistant Emma Kaisner, which traces the history of backstage drama from Shakespeare to The Studio: blogs.uoregon.edu/londonstage/...
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The Show Must Go On: A groundbreaking digital humanities project brings theater history to the public, despite federal funding cuts
Delighted to share this feature story from @uocas.bsky.social about the London Stage Database project -- what our team has accomplished, how we are moving forward now that our #NEH grant has been cut, and why we believe this work remains important: cas.uoregon.edu/news/the-show-must-go
You can export records and collections search results directly from the site, as well. If you let me know what kinds of info you're interested in storing for future use, I can make suggestions about the quickest way to do so -- hopefully saving you a lot of copying and pasting!
We are fortunate to have stopgap support from UO Information Services to keep the site in active maintenance, and internal bridge funding to allow our student workers to finish out their spring term research appointments, so we are doing all we can with these precious weeks!
The funding cuts threaten the long-term sustainability of the project, which will eventually become unstable and then obsolete if left under-resourced. However, there are no immediate plans to retire the site from UO servers, and the existing assets remain open access on GitHub and Zenodo.
spreadsheet showing links between London Stage Database and Text Creation Partnership play titles, authors, and publication dates
The London Stage Database team may be defunded, but we're determined to release as much as we can of the data we've been curating this year. Something exciting is coming soon...
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It is with heavy hearts that we share the news that #NEH grant funding for "Extending the London Stage Database" was terminated abruptly earlier this month. You can help us advocate for the importance of this project and the #humanities more broadly. Read more:
Following the updates to the London Stage Database website, the Legacy Search will be retired on May 1. For more information, head to the website at londonstagedatabase.uoregon.edu. We will also be posting a detailed announcement on this decision to our blog at blogs.uoregon.edu/londonstage/.
Folks attending the annual ASECS conference, make sure to check out the talks from two of our team members on the London Stage Database!
Not even remotely small! The project would not exist in anything close to its current form without your creative problem-solving and very necessary encouragement at key moments.
