Archives for London Projects

Winning Endeavours

Over 1,700 images of London’s previous Olympic Games in 1908 and 1948, together with British Olympians and Paralympians throughout history, can be seen for the first time on a new website www.winningendeavours.org. The website includes many unseen images that have been taken from archival documents, newspapers, journals and ephemera currently in the care of the British Library, London Metropolitan Archives and 23 other archival repositories in London and the South East of England. For more on this, click here

Through the Door

Many institutions have hosted a visiting artist in recent years, offering the chance to explore what they do as a way of providing creative inspiration and producing new work. Now Archives for London has teamed up with Poet in the City to put together a bid to the Heritage Lottery Fund for between six to eight archives in the Greater London area to act as host to a visiting poet. For more on this, click here

Advocacy

AfL is passionate about London's archives and works with local authorities, organisations, membership groups, users and practitioners to help preserve and make archives accessible to all. Read AfL chair David Mander's article 'Advocacy for London's archives' here

The AfL healthcheck has been designed to help archive services identify key information and opportunities in light of current economic and political environment. It will also inform AfL’s advocacy activities.

AfL also facilitates discussions between archive custodians and users where services are looking for new ways forward. See here for the latest on Camden Local Studies and Archives.