Subheading: a meeting with Lucy Porten Bad news first? Or good news first? Lets end on a positive… The Spanner So… The National Trust is not an archive. Every recording is stored at the British Library and you have to
OHD_MDM_0032 Beasties of the Archive
I did a mind map/a brain dump around all the supernatural bullshit that bounces around in my head and I finally used a post-it note that some how has survived since February. The Ghost The idea of archives being haunted
OHD_BLG_0065 New words among other things
Readings: Community archives and the health of the internet by Andrew Prescott Steering Clear of the Rocks: A Look at the Current State of Oral History Ethics in the Digital Age by Mary Larson Sometimes I feel like we are
OHD_BLG_0066 An Archival Impulse
by Hal Foster turn “excavation sites” into “construction sites” No Ghost Just a Shell This is why I want to work with some of the art students because you can get some of this lovely weirdness when you work in
OHD_BLG_0067 Sites of Conscience
by Liv Ševčenko “Heritage can never be outside politics – it is always embedded in changing power relations between people.“ “integrating dialogue into every stage of heritage management, from planning to preservation to interpretation, and allowing for continual evolution.” Museums
OHD_BLG_0068 it’s always language
A couple of weeks ago I learnt about structuralism and post-structuralism and post-modernism. All these concepts that I did not know about and now do know about and think they are fine but not as great as some people think
OHD_BLG_0070 Reading Group – 16/03/21
Readings Families remembering food: revising secondary data by Peter Jackson et al. Secondary analysis reflection: some experiences of re-use from an oral history perspective by Joanna Bornat Dynamic Attitudes Everyone views the world through their own personal lens and academics
OHD_BLG_0072 Community archives and the health of the internet
By Andrew Prescott This was great. A very helpful piece of writing that was in the recommend reading for my seminar Digital Culture: Collaborative projects. The bulk of the text discussed community archives or counter archives, as I have previously
OHD_BLG_0074 Archival Discoveries and Discussions – 25/02/21
I zoomed into a “workshop” with PGR and professional archiving people. I say “workshop” with speech marks because people are becoming very liberal with this word. Workshops produce outcomes and involve interactions, presentations and panels do not do this. Stop
OHD_BLG_0075 Texts, Images and Sounds Seminars Summary
What follows is a summary of the various seminars that I took presented by Ian Biddle from Newcastle University. Overall I enjoyed these seminars mostly because I had covered many of the topics during my time at Goldsmiths but now
OHD_BLG_0076 ʇǝɹɔǝs ʞɹɐp ǝɥʇ
In Frisch’s ‘Three dimensions and more’ he discusses the idea of the deep dark secret of oral history being like the unopened shoe box of homemade videos – unwatched. After digesting this idea for the last two years I suddenly
OHD_BLG_0077 RE-MIX (reading group – 16/02/21)
Readings: M. Frisch – “Three Dimensions and More: Oral History Beyond the Paradoxes of Method” in Handbook of Emergent Methods J. Bornat et al. – “Don’t mix race with specialty”: Interviewing South Asian Overseas-Trained Geriatricians (this was the wrong piece