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The London Stage Database
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Follow for updates on our NEH-sponsored digital humanities project documenting the history of performance in 18th-century London

You can visit the database at https://londonstagedatabase.uoregon.edu
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...
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July 18, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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!
May 21, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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!
May 20, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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.
May 20, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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.
April 3, 2025 at 6:56 PM