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<!doctype html>
<html class="no-js" lang="en">

<head>
    <?php include_once('common/header.php'); ?>
    <title>Guide to London Stage Database Project</title>
</head>

<body id="guide">
<?php include_once('common/nav.php'); ?>
<main class="main grid-container">
    <div class="grid-x guide-wrap">
        <div class="small-12 page-heading">
            <h1>User Guide</h1>
        </div>
        <div method="post" class="small-12 medium-11 large-9 cell grid-x data-form">
            <p>
                This page links to our quick guides for interacting with and understanding the information presented in
                the London Stage Database. In 2025, our team updated and reorganized this content from an earlier
                version of this webpage (now available<a
                        href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240910151821/https://londonstagedatabase.uoregon.edu/guide.php">
                    through
                    the Internet Archive</a>).
            </p>
            <ul>
                <li><a href="about-data.php">About the Data</a>: Outlines the provenance and limitations of the data
                </li>
                <li><a href="/glossary.php">Glossary</a>: Defines archaic and specialist terms related to
                    eighteenth-century performance culture
                </li>
                <li><a href="cast-list.php">Cast Lists</a>: Explores our approach to representing cast lists from <em>The
                        London Stage</em> reference books
                </li>
                <li><a href="authors.php">Authors</a>: Discusses the role of playwrights in long-eighteenth-century
                    performance culture and contextualizes the representation of individual authors in the database
                </li>
                <li><a href="dates.php">Dates</a>: Explains how “old” and “new style” dating could affect historical
                    research, particularly comparisons across national traditions
                </li>
                <li><a href="tips.php">Search Tips</a>: Offers advice for using the keyword and advanced search
                    interfaces and for refining search results
                </li>
            </ul>
        </div>
    </div>
</main>
<?php include_once('common/footer.php'); ?>
</body>