The Pararchive Project

To commemorate the First World War’s centenary which begins this year, five First World War Engagement Centres were established in February 2014 by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) in partnership with the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF). The rationale is to support community research projects about the conflict through connecting academic and public histories…

On April 18, a deadly avalanche killed 13 and left three Sherpa missing on Mt. Everest, the single deadliest day in the mountain’s history. Discovery was at base camp preparing to film a live event with adventurist Joby Ogywn when disaster struck. everestavalanchetragedy.com Bringing together 3D flythroughs and panoramas, journals, archival footage and audio clips,…

The Uralla Story Project is a partnership between Uralla Arts, The Story Project and the communities that comprise the Uralla district. The project has, in its initial phase, recorded over forty conversations on a wide range of topics. These are everyday stories which weave an extraordinary web of connectivity across our community. We thank the…

The British Council Film Collection is an archive of 120 short documentary films made by the British Council during the 1940s designed to show the world how Britain lived, worked and played. Preserved by the BFI National Film Archive and digitised by means of a generous donation by Google, the films are now yours to…

We are proud to announce The Black Health Initiative (BHI) as a partner on Pararchive. BHI is a community engagement organisation that works with disadvantaged and marginalised communities towards equality of access to education, health and social care within Leeds and surrounding areas. In order to achieve this, BHI works in partnership with NHS Leeds,…

Connecting Communities: Storytelling and the Digital Archive 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS Date: Friday 27th – Saturday 28th March 2015 Venue: Stage@Leeds, University of Leeds, Leeds, U.K This AHRC-funded conference and community showcase marks the climax of an eighteen-month multidisciplinary research project entitled Pararchive: Open Access Community Storytelling and the Digital Archive (www.pararchive.com). The…

Alongside our Pararchive Break-out session and Andy’s Bute Calling! walk, members of the Gladstone 2013 Fired-Up! project, Ellie Davies, Pete Roch (of Assorted Records) and Wendy Davies, joined us at the Connected Communities Festival, Cardiff back in July.  As a complement to their ‘Cogs in the Machine’ workshop, they screened Gladstone 2013 – Fired up! (2013),…

The Unstraight Museum is a developing online database of ‘collective[ly] collected […] unstraight objects’ that seeks to remedy the failure of (European) museums to collect, preserve and tell the hi/stories of LGBT peoples.  Conceived in 2007 (and launched in 2011), it is run by a coalition of Swedish heritage professionals, museum lovers and members of…

If you’re interested in technology and are still thinking about how you would like to spend this coming weekend (Friday 15th – Sunday 17th August), then this year’s Wuthering Bytes Festival in Hebden Bridge might be the place to be. Like last year, the Festival will be held at Hebden Bridge town hall and will…

Firstly, Adele took us through her experiences of using Box of Broadcasts to locate footage and recordings… It’s a useful tool for exploring content, filtering through metadata, creating playlists of interesting material and using transcripts to locate segments within video or audio. We wondered how integrating the means to explore archives should be within Pararchive.…