Officers and Stations database project funded by the University of Western Ontario (Research Western), SHARCNET (data group for Canadian universities), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 2004-6. Elizabethan officers with command on account (600 approximately) with prosopographical data and analysis. Currently housed with Prof. Michael Bauer, Computer Sciences, Western University. Published five articles. Materials used in production of Letters of Lord Burghley to Sir Robert Cecil, 1593-8 (Camden Fifth Series, vol. 53, 2018).

Acres, W. D. “Is history just a collection of biographies? Notes from a historical database” International Journal of the Humanities, 2010, vol. 7, issue 11, pp.75-86.

Acres, W. D. “Officers and Stations: Networks of Politics, Knowledge and Expertise in Late-Elizabethan England.” Journal of the Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, 2010, vol. 5 issue 4, pp. 447-464.

Bauer, Michael, and W. D. Acres. “Augmenting Historical Research with Databases: A Case Study of 16th Century Elizabethan Military” International Society for Computers and Their Applications, 2009, vol. 24, pp. 44-50.

Acres, W. D. “Office-holding and holding on to office: A study of Elizabethan army captains, 1579-1603.” International Conference in the Humanities, July, 2008, International Journal of the Humanities, vol. 6, issue 5, pp. 23-30.

Acres, W. D. “An interdisciplinary approach to ‘newness’ in historical populations.” International Journal of the Humanities, 2005, vol. 3, issue 2, pp.105-110. (Nominated for International Award in the Humanities)