Critical reflections

Discussing war and ephemera at the 2023 Memory Studies Association conference

From 3-6 July 2023, some of our team were lucky to attend the Memory Studies Association conference, which was conveniently held in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and discuss some of our findings so far. Attending the conference were our project Research Fellows Ann-Marie Foster and Chris Kempshall, Co-Investigator Tony Williams, our freelance Creative Writing practitioner Felicity Tattersall, and […]

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The Ethics of Mining Digital Ephemera, by Ann-Marie Foster

How can we ethically work with sources in the digital realm? How do we meaningfully engage with online collections without stealing research, erasing community work, and mining histories which were only ever meant to be seen by a select few? With the rise of family history, increases in digitisation initiatives, and museums turning to digital

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Reflections on Digital Ephemera, by Ann-Marie Foster

Ever wondered what the term ‘digital ephemera’ might comprise? Our project Research Fellow Ann-Marie Foster sets out to answer this question. What are digital ephemera? There are two answers to this question. On the one hand there are born-digital ephemera – the word document I am typing this blog on, a pdf, or even a

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The Centenary #2: A two-part reflection by Chris Kempshall

The long shadow of the dead Split between national moments and localised activities, events organised during the centenary were often innovative and exciting. However, even at their most creative there was an ongoing tendency to reproduce commemorative and remembrance norms, particularly in the way that the focus has often fallen upon the dead rather than

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The Centenary # 1: A two-part reflection by Chris Kempshall

Introducing the First World War centenary in Britain Between 2014 and 2018, the United Kingdom entered a prolonged period of national commemoration and remembrance to mark the centenary of the First World War. The initial announcement for the centenary commemorations was made by the then Prime Minister, David Cameron at the Imperial War Museum in

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