Andrew Payne Mainstreaming Diversity At The National Archives
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The Essential Archive?Developing Audience Diversity at the UK National Archives
Head of Education & Outreach
The National Archives
Andrew Payne
Is this the most boring page on the
World Wide Web?
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/our-role.htm
The National Archives is… Essential/Boring?
• Government Department
• Executive Agency
• Ministry of Justice
• Office of Public Sector Information
• Her Majesty’s Stationery Office
• Historic Manuscripts Commissioner
• Government’s National Archive
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Boring
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Is the world’s greatest archive really
Boring13 ?
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The National Archives’ Public Task
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Our responsibility is
for the government record, its past and future, its use and re-use,
authentic, available and accessible to all
Archives have the power to make us think!
Education & Outreach’s Public Task
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To make people say
WOW!Hmmmm – this isn’t what I expected…
How can we be Essential
and not simply Boring13?
Step 1 – Build a Global Empire
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Step 2 – Photograph It
“Governors to arrange for the taking of photographs of noteworthy buildings and scenery … together with individuals of various races peculiar to the colony.”
Right Honourable 2nd Earl Granville Secretary of State for the Colonies
1859
Step 3 – Repeat Step 2 for 120 years to create 35,000 images from around the globe
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Step 4 – Deposit in The National Archives
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Step 5 – Add to Flickr and issue a press releasewww.flickr.com/photos/nationalarchives/collections/72157632921688592/
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Africa Through a Lens www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/africa
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Mass Media coverage in February 2011 drove 750,000 views
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Does a million views on Flickr really make
you Essential?
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How do you become really ‘Essential’?
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The Essential Museum
“If satisfying the user’s internalized questions became the main mission of the museum, it might then become ‘essential’.”
Elaine Hermann GurianThe Essential Museum
2006
Caribbean Through a Lens www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/caribbean
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‘A Characteristic Group’Bahamas, Nassau 1890 CO1069/234: 49
Georgetown Riots‘Procession of people demonstrating in High Street, Georgetown’.CO 1069/363/1&2
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Caribbean Through a Lens www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/caribbean
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St Mungo’s – Homeless Women’s Group
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Kingsway Project – Community Exhibition
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Haringey Project - Inspiring Caribbean Memories
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Andrew PayneHead of EducationThe National Archives
020 8392 5319
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education
