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A cracked voice…
Writer Graham Palmer (@GP_writer) explains how he’s using music to explore the past in his exciting collaborative project, Cracked Voices. Warning: my history is suspect. It is fake news. I am not a historian. But I am fascinated in the way we are all complicit in fashioning stories, in interpreting our own lives and those of others…
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1. Oriel College Postcard
by Lucy Inskip (@lucyskippin) Rather than finding the most outlandish historical object from a heritage site or online collection, I looked to my own bookshelf for an interesting piece of history. I bought this vintage Oxford coloured postcard print from Antiques on High whilst reading History at Oriel College, University of Oxford (2016-2019). It is from…
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Stamford’s Urban Renewal Projects: Local Archives and Narratives of Progress
In the 1960s and 70s, Stamford, Connecticut, demolished 130 acres of its downtown in an attempt at revitalization. The record of these Urban Renewal Projects lend insight into how power imbalances are created and perpetuated in local historical archives.
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