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Playtimes website relaunched

Posted on December 3, 2016 by Andrew Burn Leave a comment

The Playtimes website, subtitled ‘A Century of Children’s Games and Rhymes’, has recently been relaunched by the British Library after an extensive redesign. The site is part of a wider Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded project entitled ‘Children’s Games and Songs in the New Media Age’, led by DARE members from 2009-11, and involving Professor Andrew Burn and Dr

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Playtimes Site relaunched

PLAYING BEOWULF: GAMING THE LIBRARY

Posted on March 11, 2015 by Andrew Burn 30 comments

Playing Beowulf was a Digital Transformations project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council in the UK. It developed a game-authoring tool based on the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf, for use by literature students in schools and universities, curators and library visitors. The games were shown at a final conference at the British Library on December 7, 2015, Ludic Literature: Literary