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Universal roots
Universal Roots was a unique community programme delivered by Nottingham City Museums and Galleries in partnership with Nottingham City Homes. The project was developed and managed by my colleague Melissa Lewis, with assistance from myself and others. The Universal Roots [...]
Mass observation behind bars: building collections with the prisoner community
Awake 7am. Up at 7.30. Toilet, wash, breakfast (cornflakes). 8.05 Door open. Hot shower, book papers for weekend, Lock-up 8.45. Morning in cell, cards, crossword. Paper came early, check sport. Lunch 12 noon, chicken roll, soup, banana… In 1937 Mass [...]
A bridge across Europe: linking collections at international level
Overview of the workshop The European Library is the gateway to the collections and data of Europe’s national and research libraries, with some 200 million bibliographic records, hundreds of collection descriptions and 25 million digitised objects from all 47 states [...]
Worcestershire World War 100: the People’s Collection
The Worcestershire World War 100 project has been funded by the HLF until 2019. It will commemorate Worcestershire's experience of WW1 through a cross-sector partnership of archives, public and independent museums and community organisations. It will encompass the origins, impact and [...]
Whose Remembrance? Highlighting the involvement of the peoples of the former British Empire in the two world wars
Whose Remembrance? Highlighting the involvement of the peoples of the former British Empire in the two world wars In 2012 IWM led Whose Remembrance? – an AHRC-funded investigation of the state of research into the contribution made by colonial troops [...]
The Clarke Stained Glass Collection
The Clarke Stained Glass Collection: A collaboration between a library, a national repository, Irish cultural institutions and the academic community The Clarke Stained Glass Studios Collection is a collaborative project between the Library at Trinity College Dublin and the Digital [...]
When image, colour and texture is content: the potential of visual search
In the current information age, image, colour and texture may be as important as words. This paper looks at the divergent uses of ICT and its potential to facilitate access to huge, largely visual collections comprising images as well as [...]
Access to archives: out of the box
When a new lift was installed at Tower Hamlets Local History Library & Archives (THLHLA) in 2013, its reading room became accessible to wheelchair users for the first time in over a century. Could we however legitimately promote our newfound [...]
Widening the arc of friendship – Exploring the letters from Iris Murdoch and Philippa Foot with the local community
From April 2012-July 2013 Kingston University’s Centre for Iris Murdoch Studies and Archives and Special Collections developed a project supported by the National Lottery through the Heritage Lottery Fund relating to our new Collection of over 200 letters from novelist [...]