bavs talks 2015 - helen rogers, 'history from below in victorian studies
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BAVS Talk 2015
The Revival of History from Below in Victorian Studies
@HelenRogers19cLiverpool John Moores University
History Workshop movementcollective history outside the academy
community activism
QueenSpark Books
Remembering CenterpriseOn the Record
What’s Left?The linguistic and cultural turns
Return of narrative, people and agency
Recent books
Bridging the divideCrossover books
Digital Humanities/Open Archives Connected histories
• Old Bailey Online• Connected Histories• London Lives• Founders and Survivors• Digital Panopticon
• AHRC After Care project• ‘Whole life analysis’• (Zoe Alker, Pam Cox, Heather
Shore)
• Telegraph, 15 April 2015
Blogging and public history@lesleyhulonce Workhouse Tales
social and interpersonal dynamics in institutions
@LauraMMair Victorian Ragged Schools
Recovering lives and agency from institutions
@Vicky_Holmes Victorian Domestic DangersWorking-class lives and sensibility:
material culture & emotional objects
@guywoolnough Victorian Policingusing bottom-up history to engage in
current policy debate & popular history
Social media &history from below
The Many Headed-Monster blog includes ‘History from Below’ series Summer 2014 and forthcoming series ‘Voices from Below’ Summer 2015
@MunicipalDreams Municipal DreamsHousing, History and Activism
@thegentleauthor Spitalfields Life
Aga Rais Mirza based onInterview from Everyday Muslims
From Spitalfields NippersEd. the Gentle Author, based on Horace Warner’s photographs
Museums, open archives& social media
The People’s History Museum, Salford Working Class Movement Library, Salford
Family & creative history
Mix-d Museum
Black Chronicles II by Autograph ABP
@Alison_Twells, Socks for the BoysUsing stories to convey analysis and interpretation
@JohnDHerson Divergent Pathstracing 200 Irish families in Staffordqualitative & quantitative analysis
@HelenRogers19c Conviction: stories from a nineteenth century prison
Intimate history: tracing individual agency & feeling through social networks, interactions & patterns of behaviour
community historyresearch & activism
Creating Our Future Histories working withAncoats Dispensary Trust to save & restore building as community hub
Community Blog @twitdispensaryA History of Ancoats Dispensary in 100 Objects
Students & History from Below3rd year module @ Liverpool John Moores University
@Writing__Lives www.writinglives.org
Writing Lives ProjectCollaboration researchers, students & public
To create online archive & searchable database of working-class autobiographyCrowdsourcing: life-writing; transcription; data-entryCommunity blog, links & resourcesBurnett, Vincent & Mayall (eds) The Autobiography of the Working Class: An Annotated, Critical Bibliography 1790-1945 Minnie Frisby, born 1877 @ Writing Lives
Frisby, Minnie. ‘Memories’, Burnett Archive of Working Class Autobiography, University of Brunel Library, Special Collection, 1:250 researched by Billie-Gina Thomason
Project Team David Vincent, David Mayall, Helen Rogers, John Herson, Claire LynchPartners: Brunel University Special Collections Library, Working Class Movements Library
Students, public engagement & history from below
Writing Lives presenting at Unofficial Histories 2014
Cleo Chalk, John England & Victoria Hoffman, Unofficial Histories conference, University of Huddersfield 2014. UH is part of the History from Below International Network