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German-Speaking Emigrés 
in British Cinema: A Biographical Database

Part of an AHRC-funded project, this database covers extensive information on the hundred most influential Ă©migrĂ©s in British cinema, from the 1920s through to the post-World War II period. From the mid-1920s onwards, film personnel from Central Europe contributed immensely to the British film industry. After Hitler’s rise to power in 1933, their number grew steadily due to their expulsion from German studios, the great majority of them being of Jewish origin. Continue reading →

Revisualising Ptolemy’s Geographia

Claudius Ptolemy’s monumental 2nd Century treatise, the Geographike hyphegesis, is one of the most important works in the history of cartography and gave a significant impetus to the Age of Discovery following its reappearance in Western Europe in 1397. Ptolemy’s great contribution to cartographic science was the separation of geographic data from its representation. Continue reading →

Electronic Visualisation of Nineteenth-century French Literary-scientific Texts: Flaubert’s Tentation de Saint Antoine

Electronic Visualisation of nineteenth-century French literary-scientific texts is an interactive electronic visualisation tool for the delivery of research-led teaching in nineteenth-century French literature, history and culture. This tool has been implemented via Web 2.0 technologies to allow students to explore the multiple perspectives, themes, contexts and timelines within their core texts. The tool also includes the core text in French and English for comparative, linguistic study. Continue reading →

EAP Toolkit for International Students

The EAP (English for Academic Purposes) Toolkit is a set of versatile online learning resources in study skills and EAP for international students. It contains over 100 interactive learning resources (designed as 'learning objects') or 80 hours of activity-based learning. University of Southampton international students are automatically registered to use this resource and can find a link to it on their homepage of Blackboard. Continue reading →