The Feminist Archive South have funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund
to create a pamphlet that explores how feminist, women’s and other
radical histories shape lives, understandings of social change,
collective dreams, hopes, disappointments and imaginations.
The pamphlet will be published for the end of the Ellen Malos’ Archives project
in September 2013. It will be distributed to schools, further education
colleges and libraries in Bristol, the South West and further afield on
request (we have limited budget for distribution but can provide free
copies should you want some).
We invite people to explore these questions in whatever way they wish,
but please do think about the question of what history can do, what it
means to individuals and what it can possibly mean to communities,
collectives or whatever other way you want to envision/ interrogate/
reconfigure/ think about ‘us.’
Contributions should be written in a non-specialist language as it is
envisaged that a wide range of ages and backgrounds will read the
pamphlet.
We want to use the pamphlet as a space to explore the practicalities of
history making – for example running discussion and memory groups, oral
history projects, grassroots archives (on and offline), exhibitions and
other ways individuals and communities explore, recover and use history
to understand their identities, where they live or the cultures they
belong to.
If you work for a feminist or women’s archives, please consider a
contribution that tells us about your collection – we plan to have a
directory at the back which lists archives and libraries where people
can find out about history.
You may also want to consider if digital media has had an impact on the
question of what history can do, and how it is shaping individuals and
communities right now.
Other contributions can be in the form of
- Visual art e.g., Illustrations, photos, cartoons, posters
- Essays and critical writing
- Philosophical reflections
- Telling radical histories
- Profiles of archives, collections, museums, projects, websites/ web resources
- Practical ‘how to’ articles – e.g., how to use an archive, how to work with historical sources, digital archiving and information management
- Creative Writing, including poetry
- Interviews with interesting projects
- Interviews with people in your community
All written contributions must not exceed 1500 words
All images must be sent as JPEGs 300 DPI
Deadline for contributions
15 July 2013
Please send contributions to fa_south@yahoo.co.uk and contact us for further information
Twitter: @femarchivesouth
Please distribute widely!
