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Introducing the ‘Charity and voluntary sector archives at risk’ PhD project
My name is Paul Beard, and I am the PhD student for ‘Charity and voluntary sector archives at risk: Conceptualising and contextualising a neglected archives sector’.
Fully funded PhD studentship
The archives and records of UK charities, voluntary organisations, campaigning bodies and NGOs are at risk. Such records are sources of institutional identity and accountability, can give access to personal and collective memories and preserve the histories of marginalised individuals…
From immersive exhibit to virtual tour: Using archive images to tell the history of charity shopping
On 18 November 2020 the project is running a virtual tour of charity shop history as part of the Being Human Festival of the Humanities. Before COVID changed everything, the ARP had been selected to feature as part of the British…
Charity archives in a time of crisis?
Charity records and archives are always at risk, but the multiple and intersecting crises of 2020 are adding to this strain.
Collecting COVID?
Huge efforts are currently underway by many cultural and heritage institutions across the UK to collect, document and record the extraordinary times we are currently living through. BBC Radio 4 is inviting listeners to describe their experiences of life during…