Acoustics, Audibility and Political Culture in the House of Commons, 1800-34

This dataset includes the auralization results obtained from the acoustic models of the House of Commons in 1800-34, as part of the research with the homonymous paper submitted in the special issue "Parliamentary History Journal" (first submission September 2023). 

The auralization results represent the perceived result from the acoustic models for the two discussed scenarios (full-occupied and half-full-occupied House of Commons). We present the results from 3 different speakers at 5 listening positions as shown in the images. 

The anechoic sample is an excerpt of Henry Beaufoy's speech to the House of Commons in 1792 on the subject of the slave trade, performed by John Cooper (co-author) in the anechoic chamber at the Audiolab, University of York. The perceived differences and similarities of the recorded/simulated spaces as heard in these audio files help to further verify the results of the acoustic parameters presented in this paper.