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Digital:Works

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  2. Oral Histories

About this Archive

Administrative/biographical history

Digital:Works is an arts and educational charity that works with communities, providing training and creative assistance to produce arts and media projects. They follow a participatory approach to projects, ensuring that those they work with are able to shape the direction of any given project. The organisation is run by a Board of Trustees with paid members of staff supporting project delivery.

Scope and content

Archive of arts and educational charity Digital:Works, including:

  • Twenty one oral histories on Fleet Street and the history of the print industry compiled for the project 'Banging Out', with handwritten summaries of the interviews, 2014; 'Banging Out' DVD, 2014.
  • Nineteen oral histories on working on London Underground with 'Going Underground: tales from the Tube' DVD, 2013.
  • Eighteen interviews regarding working in and the history of Hatton Garden and the jewellery trade, with 'Lappings, lemel & sweeps : stories from Hatton Garden', 2013.
  • Twenty two oral histories regarding the history and experience of living on Golborne Road, West London, with 'Wild West 10: Golborne Stories of Struggle and Resistance', 2014.
  • 'Stall Stories: a film exploring the history of four London street markets' DVD, 2012.
Quantity

1 folder, 5 digital folders.

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Oral Histories Go to this category page.

Mapping Museums Oral Histories

2018 - 2019

The Weekend Millionaires: An Oral History of the Thames Lightermen

2015

An image with a black background and white writing, which says: "On the docks, an oral history of London's dock workers".

On The Docks: An Oral History of London Dock Workers

2019

An image of the Hatton Garden area, and on the wall it says "Stories from Hatton Garden".

Lappings, Lemel and Sweeps: Stories from Hatton Garden

2013

Young Rebels: The Story of the Southall Youth Movement

2014

A woman is holding a newborn baby wrapped in a shawl.

Holding The Baby Archive

2018

Doing It Ourselves Archive

2018 - 2019

A policeman is taking three people into their police car. In front of the car is a policeman pointing aggressively to the person behind the camera.

Fighting SUS Archive

2018 - 2019

Constructing Post-War Britain

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2011 - 2012

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We Weren't Expecting to Stay

1950 - 2014

Sounds from the Park

1905 - 2013

Swadhinata Trust Oral History Project

Temple of Mithras Oral History Project

Tape Letters Project

#FROMTHE ARCHIVES

Married in 1950, Chris and Betty Birch have been involved in political, trade union, and LGBTQ+ activism for over 60 years. Sharing similar interests, they were both Communist Party Members and involved with organisations such as the Aid to Spanish Youth Committee. After the death of his friend, Mark Ashton, Chris became involved in forming the Mark Ashton Memorial Trust, which was created to raise money for individuals living with HIV. The archive includes the truncheon taken from the police by Mark Ashton, correspondence, personal scrapbooks, press cuttings, and various other papers relating to the couples activism.
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