Objects as Archive
4pm 20 July 2022
Are archives always comprised of documents and papers? Can we read collections of pictures and material objects as ‘archives’ – and, if so, what are the implications of thinking about ‘archives’ in such an open-ended way? What about the processes involved – collecting, amassing, inheriting, assembling? What is managed or unmanaged in these processes? Do they operate as sites of contested values and memories? Is there a gender burden in the amassing of family non-textual archives?
Speaker: Prof Jill Journeaux (Coventry University)
Family Archives and their afterlives in England, 1650-1838 