Responding and Researching
This video is a record of the early project, when we began to uncover and make sense of the archival material in its then distant and inaccessible location: a large storage facility on the edge of the river Thames in Woolwich. It shows the excitement emerging among the project team and other members of TIHR […]
I have just finished reading Paura Reverenza Terrore (that can be translated as Fear Reverence Terror). It is a book of “political iconography” (as the subtitle reads) by Carlo Ginzburg, an Italian historian of ideas.
The book is a collection of five essays published between 2001 and 2009 and for the first time offered to the Italian reader within one publication…
Working on an organisation’s archive is not just a technical venture aiming at ordering and filing documents.
Working on an organisation’s archive is working on an organisation’s history, on an organisation’s identity and primary task and on how this has been shaped over time and space.
Working on an organisation’s archive is working with ideas, artefacts, people, memories of people, and strong or faded memories of communities…