Introduction

This site is the home of the Early Modern Texts Forum. This interdisciplinary project employs an innovative research forum called a Virtual Research Environment (VRE) that allows researchers to enhance their work using new technologies. In Early Modern Studies, VRE technologies can transform research by allowing scholars to collaborate and exchange ideas more effectively. The technology also offers new ways of working with key electronic resources, such as Early English Books Online and Eighteenth Century Collections Online. For more information see What is a VRE? and About the Project.

Strands of Activity

The Early Modern Texts Forum comprises three strands: a collaboratively taught MA Programme, the Early Modern Virtual Research Group and a pilot eTexts Project.

• Virtual Research Group: With the project title "Different constructions of the polity and commonwealth", this research group meets through monthly Access Grid seminars; in-depth and sustained collaboration is facilitated by a Virtual Research Environment.
• eTexts Project: A pilot for a large scale Virtual Research Environment allowing networks of scholars to share, edit and discuss (both textually and verbally) authors, titles and topics.
• MA Programme: The innovative MA in the History of Political Discourse 1500-1800, has been piloted by the Universities of East Anglia and Hull. From September 2008, it will be offered by the new partnership of Hull and Warwick. The programme features jointly-taught seminars (using Access Grid) and is supported by a specially customised Virtual Research Environment.

Please use the blue horizontal navigation bar to find out more about these activities.