1. Project overview Women in Lockdown aimed to document women’s experiences of the pandemic – in their own words – through written, audio, and creative accounts. Through a series of pop-up events, online events, and postcard boxes in community spaces, the project engaged new participants and asked them to contribute their stories. SFA worked with … Read more
1. Project overview The key aims of this project were to: Grow the representation of Bearwood women in local archives. Increase Bearwood Community Hub’s knowledge and capability to contribute to local archives. Learn, as individuals and as an organisation, how to create a podcast. Increase awareness of the local archive service, what digital archiving is, … Read more
1. Project overview The project involved training a group of volunteers to conduct a series of 10 one-hour-long interviews with LGBT+ people of a range of ages across Greater Manchester. The interviews were transcribed, and the recordings and transcriptions formed the content of an online exhibition which was launched on LGBT Foundation’s website to mark … Read more
1. Project overview Northumberland Archives and the Camera Club worked with members of Cramlington Guides and young people from a local secondary school to introduce them to what Northumberland Archives does, while Camera Club members led sessions on photography skills. The participants then took digital photographs of Cramlington that were exhibited at Cramlington Community Hub, … Read more
As a medium-sized organisation with a valuable heritage archive, and possible brand identity too, how do you go about planning for the digitisation of your content? This guide seeks to offer some practical advice, points for consideration, and signpost some really informative resources to get you started. 1. The best place to start The motivation … Read more
Digitisation serves a range of purposes and offers many benefits for heritage archives. As a small organisation you may be wondering how you might plan and prepare for digitisation. Here we offer a concise guide on how to get started and what to consider. Where is the best place to start? Over recent months and … Read more
1. Project overview The East Riding Blockdown project aimed to capture youth experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic for the East Riding Archives’ collections using the videogame Minecraft as a creative medium and platform for digital storytelling. Participants documented their COVID-19 experiences within Minecraft, using blocks to build and a ‘book and quill’ item to write. … Read more
1. Project overview Participants from South London Gallery’s young people’s forum, the Art Assassins, took the lead in researching and re-examining the 1911 Festival of Empire. Through this project, the Art Assassins developed archival research and digital storytelling skills, engaging with online platforms including Wikimedia and FrameVR. 2. Project stats Data accurate as of … Read more
1. Project overview The project studied information contained within 242 record cards from the Jewish Temporary Shelter dating from the 1940s and 1950s which records migrants passing through the shelter just after WWII. The Jewish Museum employed a research associate to carry out the task of geo-referencing the data, promoting the progress of the project … Read more