Charmaine Papertalk Green sifts through the violent, traumatic colonial archive, to know more about her Old People. It’s heartbreaking work, but a sliver of information can make a world of difference.
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Echoes of Southern African Independence is an audio archive project that brings history alive in a fresh and unique way.
You can uncover the depths and hidden details of your own family’s unspoken narratives by thinking like an archival researcher writing an ‘investigative memoir.’
David Jones is donating its archive to Sydney’s Powerhouse Museum. It is a timely reminder of the significance of ‘DJs’ to the development of modern Australia.
Swift positions herself in a long history of women accused of ‘behaving badly’ while revealing the importance of revisiting our understanding of the past based on shifting evidence.
LGBTIQ+ life in Angola can be traced to before colonialism, though it has not been well documented. A recent project brings these stories to life.
A former archivist at Mary McLeod Bethune’s last residence in Washington, DC, recounts how the experience led her to see Bethune as a global figure.
Few copies remain of the earliest known board game produced in the US.
The Lesbian and Gay Liberation in Canada project uses a new online database to record the events, places, people, organizations and publications that have formed Canada’s LGBTQ+ rights movement.
John Alec Baker’s 1967 novel, The Peregrine, recounts the story of a bird over ten winters, but his archive is the story of a very private man.
Scholars say Israel’s destruction of Gaza’s schools, universities and museums are part of an ongoing project to destroy Palestinian people, identity and ideas.
Digitising manuscripts may promise preservation and accessibility, but technology does not future-proof our access to the past.
ChatGPT can explain key concepts and information that can help people make the most of their time locating, accessing and interpreting archives. But ChatGPT can also give false information.
By disguising her name, Alcott could publish in less prestigious venues without worrying about tarnishing her literary reputation.
Anyone concerned about 2SLGBTQ+ struggles today can learn from the history of resistance and activism preserved in these archives.
The UK needed workers, but government documents reveal British subjects in the Caribbean were still actively discouraged from entering the country
The legendary As-Shams jazz label has released the first of several compilation albums recovered from its archive.
Many of these women worked hours to make the work of psychiatrists accessible to a general readership without any recognition
The Wales Broadcast Archive in Aberystwyth brings together the archives of the BBC, ITV and S4C under one roof.
These disappearances demonstrate deep flaws in the way Australia maintains our rich cartoon heritage.
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Assistant Curator for History and Culture, National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution
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Ph.D. Student in Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
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Lecturer in Data & Society, University of Edinburgh
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Professor of History, University of Waterloo
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Extraordinary Professor, Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria
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Assistant Archivist, Germaine Greer Archive, The University of Melbourne
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Professor, School of History and International Relations, Flinders University
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Postdoctoral Fellow in History, Vanderbilt University
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Professor of History, Vanderbilt University
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Assistant Professor of Physics, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Professor of Paleontology and Director of the University of California Museum of Paleontology, University of California, Berkeley
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Senior Lecturer in Law, King's College London
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Professor Emeritus, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University
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Humanities Librarian, University of Rochester
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Chair of Private Law, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
