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Digital:Works

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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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