Online diaries conference hosted by Churchill Archives Centre

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On 27th April, from 13:30-17:00 BST, Churchill Archives Centre is hosting the third part of its Keeping and Making Diaries Conference online, via Zoom.

The programme is as follows:

Session 1:

13:30-1500: Panel of papers

Chair: Peter Sloman

‘Alternative diary formats’

Victoria Stevens (ACR Library & Archive Conservation & Preservation Ltd): ‘Chalet tales: changing times revealed by the conservation of the Alpine study diaries of three Oxford colleges’

Toni Booth and Claire Mayoh (National Science and Media Museum): ‘Cinema diaries as historical resources’

‘Diary and selves, now and then’

Lilith Cooper (University of Kent): ‘Daily squares: Covid comic diaries on Instagram’

Simon Sleight (King’s College London): ‘A “new brand of girl”: May Stewart’s teenage diary and landscapes of intimacy in 1900s Melbourne’

Tea: 15:00-15:15

Session 2:

15:15-16:15: Keynote 2

Chair: Eve Colpus

Claire Langhamer (Institute of Historical Research): ‘Feelings at work in Mass Observation’s Diaries’

Session 3:

16:15-17:00: Discussion session

With all speakers from Days 1, 2 and 3 of the conference

Sign-up to the free online conference.