The Pararchive Project

In this short film, Simon talks about his previous collaborations with the BBC and the AHRC – The Open Archive Project and Strike Stories – and how he met Carbon Imagineering, the Pararchive design and technology team, through a Creative Technology Lab in 2012, run by the Cultural and Creative Industries Exchange at the University of…

Date: Saturday 8 November, 10.30-15.30 Venue: School of Media and Communication, Clothworkers’ North Building, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT Do you have a story to tell?  Do you enjoy exploring archives?  Are you interested in online research with museums? This event introduces the Pararchive Project, whose main aim is to create a digital toolkit…

Women, Gender & Sexuality in the Archive is an afternoon workshop designed to bring together archivists, librarians and custodians of archives with those who would like to explore opportunities for working collaboratively with archives on women, gender and sexuality located in Leeds. Speakers from archives on the University of Leeds campus and across the city…

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…

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…

Come and join the Pararchive team at the Connected Communities Festival 2014 in Cardiff on Tuesday 1st & Wednesday 2nd July. We are running a range of exciting activities, all of which are free and open to all (see below for details).  Both the Breakout session and the Gladstone 2013 – Fired Up! Workshop will…

If you’ve been following the progress of our Technology Workshops, you’ll already be able to imagine Gladstone Pottery Museum: it’s there in our very first photos of the striking red brick bottle kilns that so vivified the website.  Located in a Victorian pottery factory, it’s where the team experienced, first hand, tales of the Potteries…

What do MOSI’s archives hold for Pararchive project members?  This is what Daniel and I set out to discover through a behind-the-scenes visit to the Manchester museum under the expert guidance of Jan Hicks, MOSI’s Archives and Information Manager. We started out from its Collections Centre, which holds about a third of the objects not…

“Harnessing the power of digital technologies to enable researchers and communities to work more effectively together to explore community creativity, cultures and heritage is the driver behind eleven new research projects announced today. The projects are designed to develop digital resources that will be of enduring value for both communities and for future research such…