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Presented as part of the University of Leicester library conference day on 13 June 2013, this is an overview of the Manufacturing Pasts project of digitising and creating OER learning materials from artefacts of 20th century industrial Britain.
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Manufacturing Pasts: learning about industrial change in twentieth century Britain
Terese Bird, Learning Technologist/SCORE Research FellowLibrary Conference Day, 13 June 2013
Objectives
• Increase use and understanding of primary historical sources by students of modern British industrial history
• By providing teachers/lecturers with online resources which they can easily use and adapt to fit with their teaching
What we did …
• Took Leicester as an example of the changing British industrial city
• Digitised selected photographs, company records, factory plans, newspaper articles, maps, oral history interviews from University and Record Office collections and put them online
• Created learning resources based on them
• Created ‘toolkit’ on how to use the resources
Benjamin Russell, 1960s
Four themes …
• Social life of the factory
• The factory & the community
• De-industrialisation
• Conservation & urban regeneration
http://tinyurl.com/d4u3oc9
Making the history accessible
Making the history accessible - how• Created a website on top of the database
• Used social media
• Mobile devices
• iTunes U
www.le.ac.uk/manufacturingpasts
Manufacturing Pasts on iTunes U
Making the history accessible –to whom• Researchers
• Urban History students
• College students – extended project
• Local community
• Local historians
• Digital humanities scholars
Addressing needs of digital humanities researchers
Toolkit for researchers:
• Using visual sources in historical research
• Using oral testimony in historical research
• Provenance, judgment
Tools for students & teachers:
• Glossary, reference
• How to make your own
Powerful examples
• Sound clip – ‘It was silent’
• Virtual tour: Historic and Industrial Leicester