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| Introduction to the Database |
| You will be able to access the database at the end of this introduction. |
| There are two main ways to search the database: |
| 1. A 'Document Search' will allow you to call up a bibliographic listing of all the documents held
in the database relating to your search term(s). Each item in the bibliography has a 'see pdf' link which will take you to a pdf of that document. The documents
take the form of policy documents, consultancy reports, correspondence, minutes of meetings, publicity material, reviews, annual reports, funding applications,
artists' papers, transcribed research interviewees and so on. |
2. An 'Event Search' will allow you to call up a bespoke narrative chronology comprising a series of
entries or 'events' relating to your search term(s). Please note:
- Most of the information contained in a chronology is drawn from the documents held on the database
- Each 'Event Search' will also generate a bibliography of all the documents and any other sources used to create that chronology. The bibliography will appear at the bottom of the chronology.
- At the end of each entry in a chronology you can click on a link which will take you to the full reference for the relevant document or source in the bibliography. The listing in the bibliography will appear at the top of your screen.
- Most items in any given bibliography will have a 'see pdf' link which will take you to a pdf of the document on which the chronology entry is based.
- Alongside the 'see pdf' links in a bibliography is a 'go to text' link – this will return you to the relevant entry in the chronology.
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| Within both the Documents and Events datasets you can undertake both simple and advanced searches,
or simply browse a full listing. To get the best results from your searches, please consult our Search Tips. You will also find a link to these once you proceed to the Database Searches. |
| The results from any search will display on a single page on screen (up to a maximum of 2000 items).
This is to facilitate scrolling up and down the information as required. The results will automatically paginate and print in a printer-friendly format if you send to
print via your browser menu bar. |
| A small number of the bibliographic references do not have 'see pdf' links. This is because either
they are book references which contribute important additional historical/contextual information or we have been unable to obtain permission to publish the documents online.
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| Proceed to Database Searches... |
