Are you keen to support and promote People’s History?
Here is your chance to help collect material for our online project, for the people and area between the Thames, Vauxhall Bridge, Kennington Park, Myatts Fields, Ferndale Road, Larkhall Estate and immediate surrounds
History is always likely to be dominated by the views of the powerful.
For several reasons the lives and influence of ordinary people will be neglected and misrepresented.
A key factor is cost: preparing and storing documents and records and making them available requires considerable skill and resources.
However, new opportunities are now available to us through digitisation and the internet. Words, pictures and even sound and video recordings can now be turned into electrical pulses which are cheap to process, send, copy and store. Once in cyberspace digitised materials can, in theory at least, be used from any other location that is connected to the internet.
Local Online has been set up to help the community benefit from the internet. Local Online links a number of community organisations and internet centres in North Lambeth and is developing a web-site.
We have begun a People’s History section on the web-site, which already includes some photographs, reports and other information.
You are invited to contribute to Local Online People’s History:
· Send writings, leaflets and printed material, photos that provide a record of People’s History, or promote it, and may interest others.
· Help others prepare their own materials or describe their experiences, especially those whose story may not otherwise be told.
Please send contributions to the address below. Include a stamped addressed envelope, and we will return all originals.
You may want to consider offering your materials to L.B.Lambeth Archives as well. You can contact them on 020-7926 6076.
Email: communitysupport@email.com
Web-site: http://web.ukonline.co.uk/localonline
Local Online is a Community Support project. Community Support is a
non-profit making community organisation
LOPH is edited by
Max Boucher and Stefan Szczelkun
21 Oct 2002