The website/blog for the AHRC project 'Community Archives and
Identities: Documenting and Sustaining Community Heritage', based at UCL
is now live here <http://archivesandidentities.com>. Please bookmark the
link and forward the information to anyone you think may be interested.
The aim of the project is to investigate the role community archives
play in supporting a sense of rootedness and identity amongst black and
other minority ethnic communities in particular. We are also interested
in the role community archives play in raising awareness of these
neglected histories in the wider public and challenging collective
representations. How such projects can best be supported from both
within and outside the mainstream archive sector is also a major theme
of this research.
We hope that the blog will provide a forum for a wide discussion of some
of the issues arising and we welcome contributions from anyone with an
interest in this area - activists, archivists, family historians,
researchers - and we're also keen to publicise talks, publications,
events etc., so do please get in touch. We look forward to hearing from you!
For more information about the background to the project please visit
our UCL pages
<http://www.ucl.ac.uk/slais/research/icarus/community-archives/> or
contact Andrew Flinn or Mary Stevens.
Mary Stevens.
*Apologies to anyone receiving this email more than once*
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Mary Stevens, MA PhD
Research Associate
Community Archives and Identities: Documenting and Sustaining Community Heritage (AHRC project)
School of Library, Archive and Information Studies
University College London
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