Contribute to 'the biggest blog in history'
Get details of your daily life into the British Museum!
'History Matters' are running a campaign to create the 'biggest blog in history' for the benefit of future historians. They're calling for UK residents or UK citizens living overseas to write a 650 word diary entry on Tuesday 17th October.
As for what you write about.. the more mundane the better. They want to get a snapshot of what people in the UK were eating, watching, listening to and thinking about on this day in history.
Check out the details below, you can sign up and send your contribution to the History Matters website here
" 'One Day in History'
The History Matters campaign has designated October 17 a day for the public to make historic. We have chosen 'an ordinary' weekday of no particular significance to ask you to write a one day on-line diary.
We want as many people as possible - tens of thousands of UK residents - to record a 'blog' diary of this one day to be by the British Library and others as a record of our national life.
And we want to urge people to reflect in their diaries how history itself impacted on them - whether it be simply commuting through an historic environment, or how business history influenced their decision-making, or merely that they looked up some old sports statistics or listened to some pop music from the 1960s. It could be anything.
'Ordinary' day
October 17 has been chosen deliberately as 'an ordinary' weekday of no particular significance. We want to record the mundane and ordinary lives of citizens and by doing something contributing valuable to the historic record. Material that could be used by historians and researchers for time to come.
Mass Observation
The idea is inspired by similar experiments by Mass Observation, the social history resource, founded in 1937, and which still exists today - based at the University of Sussex.
How
From the 17 October until 1 November it will be possible to add your 'One Day in History' diary on this website.
To do so you will have to fill out a simple form. We will ask you to write your diary on the form. This can be from one word up to 650 words (about the size of one page of A4). After you have added your diary we will also ask you to fill in a few key words describing what you have written. This could be words like town names, your name, key facts. This enables the diaries to be more searchable so that you should be able to find your diary easily afterwards.
We will also ask you for your name and you e-mail address. Your name will be displayed but NOT your e-mail address. The reason for asking for your e-mail address is to ensure we can contact individuals where there may have been a problem in the uploading process. Again we assure this will be not be available to the general public.
The archive thereby created will be held by the British Library, Mass Observation, the National Trust and others. "
'History Matters' are running a campaign to create the 'biggest blog in history' for the benefit of future historians. They're calling for UK residents or UK citizens living overseas to write a 650 word diary entry on Tuesday 17th October.
As for what you write about.. the more mundane the better. They want to get a snapshot of what people in the UK were eating, watching, listening to and thinking about on this day in history.
Check out the details below, you can sign up and send your contribution to the History Matters website here
" 'One Day in History'
The History Matters campaign has designated October 17 a day for the public to make historic. We have chosen 'an ordinary' weekday of no particular significance to ask you to write a one day on-line diary.
We want as many people as possible - tens of thousands of UK residents - to record a 'blog' diary of this one day to be by the British Library and others as a record of our national life.
And we want to urge people to reflect in their diaries how history itself impacted on them - whether it be simply commuting through an historic environment, or how business history influenced their decision-making, or merely that they looked up some old sports statistics or listened to some pop music from the 1960s. It could be anything.
'Ordinary' day
October 17 has been chosen deliberately as 'an ordinary' weekday of no particular significance. We want to record the mundane and ordinary lives of citizens and by doing something contributing valuable to the historic record. Material that could be used by historians and researchers for time to come.
Mass Observation
The idea is inspired by similar experiments by Mass Observation, the social history resource, founded in 1937, and which still exists today - based at the University of Sussex.
How
From the 17 October until 1 November it will be possible to add your 'One Day in History' diary on this website.
To do so you will have to fill out a simple form. We will ask you to write your diary on the form. This can be from one word up to 650 words (about the size of one page of A4). After you have added your diary we will also ask you to fill in a few key words describing what you have written. This could be words like town names, your name, key facts. This enables the diaries to be more searchable so that you should be able to find your diary easily afterwards.
We will also ask you for your name and you e-mail address. Your name will be displayed but NOT your e-mail address. The reason for asking for your e-mail address is to ensure we can contact individuals where there may have been a problem in the uploading process. Again we assure this will be not be available to the general public.
The archive thereby created will be held by the British Library, Mass Observation, the National Trust and others. "
posted by snowmonkey at 12:36 pm
1 Comments:
"History, that excitable and unreliable old lady." ~Guy de Maupassant, Sur l'Eau.
History is now just one damn 1010101111010 after another. Spent all day in the British Museum, staring at Bout coupé handaxes [perhaps the epitome of Neatherthal material culture] and other such stone tools. A more mundane and better use of my time, I cannot imagine. You are allowed to differ.
9:49 pm
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