CILIP Local Studies Group South Study Day 2017

Friday 3rd November 2017 - 10:30am to 4:30pm

Innovative ways to highlight our hidden history resources.

Join us for the CILIP Local Studies Group South Study Day 2017, which shows how fellow library and archive professionals have used innovative ways to highlight letters and log books, diaries and dispatches within their collections.

Programme

Cost 

Study Day: 

10.30                Registration/coffee
11.00                Welcome
11.05 – 12.00   session1    Liz Finn: Botany boats and bathing machines: Anna Maria Hussey’s diary of 1836    
12.05 – 13.00   session 2   Hannah Barton:  AnnoTate and the Archives & Access project 
13.00 – 14.00 lunch with LSG South AGM at 13.30
14.00 – 14.50  session 3 Beverley Jones: Just passing through: the Peterborough Great War Project
14.50 – 15.20  tours of new archives centre
15.20 – 16.10  session 4 Norma Crowe:  The Darnleys of Cobham Hall and their letters. 
16.10 – 16.30 Tea, Summing up, thanks and close

Speakers:

John Vincent

The Network

For further information and/or to book a place, please contact: John Vincent, john@nadder.org.uk.

CILIP members - £40.00 + VAT

CILIP non-members - £50.00 + VAT

Buffet lunch and refreshments included

Speakers

Venue

Speakers

Hannah Barton, Tate Galleries: AnnoTate, Tate Gallery’s Archives & Access project, developing and using a transcription tool to transcribe letters and notebooks of British and émigré artists.

Beverley Jones, Vivacity Peterborough: 2016 Alan Ball Award winning Peterborough and the Great War project.

Liz Finn, Kent Archives Service: Anna Maria Hussey; mycological illustrator: a project to transcribe and publish an ebook of a little-known diary of a holiday in Dover in 1836.

Norma Crowe, Medway Archives Office, Insights into the Darnley family of Cobham Hall through their letters. Dramatised readings presented by Norma Crowe, Jean Lear and Christoph Bull

Medway Archives Centre

Venue Website