Imagining Belfast Database, 1850 - 2005

Drawing together the results of research in written and printed records, iconographical analysis and anthropological fieldwork, <i>Imagining Belfast</i> attempts a comprehensive review of identity practices in Belfast from the nineteenth to the twentieth century, focussing in particular on the use of public space. Two data bases were constructed. The first covers crowd events in Belfast in the period 1850-1960. A database has been constructed from the files of the <i>Belfast News Letter</i> comprising all recorded events involving the use of public space for every eleventh year across the period. Events are catalogued by type, size of crowd, location, level of organisation, and the incidence of violence. The second, constructed from the <i>Belfast News Letter</i> and <i>Irish News</i>, lists all recorded events involving the use of public space for every four years across the period from 1961-2005.<br>