To whom it may concern: letters, log books, diaries and dispatches.

Innovative ways to highlight our hidden history resources

Date: Wednesday 21 March 2018                             10.30am – 4.30pm
Location:   CILIP, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE   tel. 0207255 0500
Entrance: £40.00 + VAT  CILIP members; £50.00 +VAT non members 

Buffet lunch and refreshments included

10.30                Registration/coffee
11.00                Welcome and introduction
11.15 – 11.55   Session1    Liz Finn: Botany boats and bathing machines: Anna Maria Hussey’s diary of 1836
12.00 – 12.35    Session 2   Jane Bramwell: Increasing access to Tate Archive: AnnoTate – A tool for crowdsourcing transcriptions.
12.40 – 12.55    LSG South AGM
13.00 – 13.45      Lunch 
13.45 – 14.15     Over to you - networking: Your projects, problems and solutions
14.20 – 14.50      Session 3   Frank James  MOOCing Humphry Davy and editing his correspondence
14.50 – 15.10     Tea break
15.10 – 16.05   Session 4 Norma Crowe:  The Darnleys of Cobham Hall and their letters, with dramatized readings by Norma Crowe, Jean Lear and Christoph Bull
16.10 – 16.30 Summing up, thanks and close

Our speakers 

Liz Finn                    Community History Officer Kent History & Library Centre, Maidstone
Jane Bramwell          Head of Tate Library, Archive & Collection Access
Frank James             Professor of the History of Science and Head of Collections, Royal Institution
Norma Crowe            Local Studies Librarian, Medway Archives Centre, Strood


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