'Files on film' - The National Archives' short film competition

There is just under a month left to enter 'Files on film', The National Archives' award winning short film competition sponsored by the Friends of The National Archives.

This year, the theme is the First World War as part of our centenary programme. We have selected ten diverse documents from the period, reflecting different experiences of war time. We invite you to interpret these and tell us the stories you see - how does our history inspire you?

To enter, read some or all of the documents we have selected and let one of them inspire you to make a short film (no longer than three minutes). You can choose any aspect of what you see - a character, a line, or the whole document, to create a film of your choice.  Anyone can enter, using any type of film equipment from mobile phones to studio cameras.

Entrants have the chance to win £500 for 1^st place, £200 for 2^nd place and £100 for 3^rd place. Winning films will be shown on The National Archives website. To watch last year's winners, visit our website.

This year our judging panel includes Chris Croucher, an award winning filmmaker and producer of season five of ‘Downton Abbey’.

The closing date for entries is midnight on Wednesday 7^th January.

For more information, see our website: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/filesonfilm

We are also tweeting @UKNatArchives #filesonfilm.

Many thanks,

Jenni Orme

Principal Records Specialist Manager - Public History
The National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 4DU
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk

Broadsheet Magazine: Archives & Education Special Issue

The education special edition of the Scottish Council on Archives magazine, Broadsheet, is out now.

 

Download at: http://www.scottisharchives.org.uk/broadsheet/current.

 The magazine includes an article by the Cabinet Secretary for Culture and External Affairs, who states “let archives - our documented national memory - inspire the young people of today in the moulding of their future…”

 There is also an interview with the convener of the SCA's Education Committee which includes many examples of great projects underway across Scotland, and top tips for anyone interested in the area of archives and learning.

Exploring Your Family History Resources

Family History and Ancestral Tourism – are you making the most of your resources? Take the opportunity to come along and discuss the subject with archive colleagues. It’s also a good chance to visit a purpose built, £10.5 million Heritage Lottery Funded facility!

This training event is limited to 30 places on a first come first serve basis.

Venue - Highland Archive & Registration Centre, Bught Road, Inverness, IV3 5SS, Scotland.

Date – 26 September 2014.

Programme
10.00     Registration. Tea/Coffee

10.30     Welcome

10.40     “Engaging with other Heritage Providers”, Chris Halliday, Family History Leader,
                Highland Archive Service

11.10     “The Aberdeen & North East Scotland Ancestral Tourism Partnership”, Phil Astley,
City Archivist, Aberdeen City & Aberdeenshire Archives

11.50     Workshop. “Engaging with local groups”

12.20     Lunch

1.00        “The Mystery of the Blue Jacket Boy-How the Orkney Archive Blog Helped Bring a WW1
                Sailor’s Letter Home”, Lucy Gibbon, Assistant Archivist, Orkney Library & Archive

1.40        Workshop. “The pros & cons of social media”

2.20        Tea/coffee

2.40        “Collaboration for Homecoming”, Julie Corcoran, Network Librarian Inverness Library,
Cait McCullagh, Curator (Collections Engagement) Inverness Museum & Art Gallery &
Janet Baker, Education & Outreach Co-ordinator, Highland Archive Service

3.20        Workshop “Where does your service sit in your organisation: is it a help or a hindrance”

3.45        Q&A

4.00        Close

A tour of the building will be available at 4pm for those wishing to stay behind.

For details on booking, follow the link below:
http://archives.org.uk/training/training.html

Scottish Council on Archives - CPD Education Workshops

The Scottish Council on Archives is launching a programme of five further education workshops for archive staff. These CPD opportunities will help you to learn skills and techniques that will enable the use of collections to develop educational resources and activities:

Workshop	Date	Location
Archives Across the Curriculum	12.09.2014	Perth
Question & Discussion	22.10.2014	Edinburgh
Creating Resources	23.10.2014	Edinburgh
Understanding the Curriculum	06.11.2014	Stirling
Active Learning	27.11.2014	Glasgow

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The workshops are developed and facilitated by the SCA Education Development Officer,Douglas Roberts. Full details and how to book can found on the SCA website at:http://www.scottisharchives.org.uk/educationworkshops.

 

ARA Training Group: Facilitators Training Day, 19th September

Are you interested in learning how to organise training days? Not sure how to run a workshop session? Keen to get more involved with ARA and contribute to your professional development? Then the ARA Facilitators Training Day is for you.

The ARA Training Group are running a FREE training day for training course facilitators on Friday 19th September at The Hive in Worcester. If you are interested in providing training or getting more involved in the ARA, your region or section but don't know where to start then this is the course for you. The course would also prove useful to those who frequently have to present to large groups, or run workshop sessions as part of their job.

This one day course will cover all aspects of organising and running a training event including planning, budgeting, running workshop sessions, use of social media and the basics of events management.

The ARA Training Group is recruiting a pool of facilitators to help run training events across the UK and Ireland. This will be a great opportunity to get more involved with the association, learn new skills and further your professional development. This course is free to ARA members and after attending the course you'll be added to our pool of facilitators who we can call on to help us run the very successful Core Training courses (subject to your availability and travel).

Refreshments and lunch will be provided on the day and the Training Group are able to assist with travel expenses for attending the event.

Sessions and speakers on the day will include:

o             Running an ARA Training Event (Lizzy Baker)

o             Event Management (Marie Owens)

o             Preparing a Budget (Hannah Jones)

o             Publicity and Communications (Kathryn Rooke)

o             How to Run a Workshop (Jessamy Carlson)

o             'How to Deliver' - Presentation Skills (Marie Owens)

o             Using Social Media (Laura Cowdrey)

o             'It Shouldn't Happen to a Training Officer' - roundtable discussion session on preparing for the   unexpected!

          

To book a place register at http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ara-training-group-facilitators-training-day-tickets-11673031351

Or for more information, please contact course organiser Hannah Jones (hannah.jones@oxfordshire.gov.uk)

ALES Annual Meeting - Update from the Chair for the ALES annual meeting

Ian Coulson of Schools History Project, starting off the ALEs conference with an entertaining and informative session.

It’s been a quiet year – probably too quiet and for that I apologise, but we’re all volunteers and our day jobs have to take precedence.

Since the last Annual meeting the ALES committee has met twice – both times by teleconference.
We organised a ‘break-out’ session at the Archives and Records Association conference in Cardiff last August. This was organised on a ‘Question Time’ model with a panel of archivists from England, Scotland and Ireland who are involved in delivering education. The session was ably chaired in Dimbleby fashion by Douglas Roberts. Each Panel member presented their ‘take’ on using archives in education and then the session was opened up to questions and discussion amongst all present. It was very well attended and we got really positive feedback from delegates – the only criticism was that we really need a longer session (we only had 45 minutes). It was the first time that ALES had put itself forward for ARA conference for some time – something that we may wish to consider repeating this year.

When the ALES committee met in September we were still hoping to run a training session in the autumn.  It became clear however that due to pressure of our ‘day jobs’ this would not work out. We shifted our attention to the annual conference, and Maria put together a fabulous programme on The Archivist as Teacher.  I would like to minute particular thanks to Maria for all her hard work and organisation and to Gloucestershire Record Office for so kindly hosting the event.

There will be an ALES Autumn training event this year – Janet Baker is planning a training day on assisting family historians which will take place on 26 September at Highland Archives. Somewhat off the beaten track, but I hope as many of you as possible will be able to attend this event. Further information will be circulated as it becomes available.

Maria is already thinking about next year’s conference – potentially on Learning and Teaching in the Digital Age! If you have ideas for training or research or anything else that you would like/would like to offer/ would like to see ALES pursuing, participating in or seeking funding for, please don’t hesitate to suggest it. We can’t deliver what you want if we don’t know what it is, and now is the perfect time to include additional funding requests in our budget proposal for next year! Contact me by email to: alison.diamond@nas.gov.uk

I would like however to record my thanks to all ALES committee members for all their hard work and support over the year. It makes a huge difference to have a team of folk who can be relied on – makes being chair much easier!

On that note however, I have been Chair for a number of years now and can’t help feeling that ALES would benefit from a change of leadership and some new ideas. I really would be happy to step down if anyone else is interested in taking on the role….

Archives for Learning and Education Section Annual Conference - 30th May 2014: The Archivist as a Teacher

The Archivist as a Teacher

The Frith Centre, Gloucestershire Archives, 30^th May 2014

Archivists are often portrayed as professional multi-taskers. One of the most valuable skills they possess is the ability to present, disseminate and make information accessible to a variety of audiences in a wide range on contexts and formats. In some respects, archivists share skill-sets with teachers and more broadly speaking with education professionals. This is particularly the case when archivists become involved in the development of educational resources.

This one-day conference would like to explore that aspect of the archivist’s work. Some of the issues we wish to address on the day include:

·         should archivists consider themselves to be 'teachers' - what is teaching and is that what we do in these situations?

·         what are the skills that archivists need to share with teachers?

·         what do archivists bring to the classroom that teachers and other education professionals can't?

·         what should archivists create? – (perspectives on changes to the curriculum in England and Wales and Scotland)

·         how can archivists market/advertise their existence and the existence of their resources/services?

The conference will be held at the Frith Centre, which is on the same site as Gloucestershire Archives, on Friday 30^th May. The event will be followed by the ALES AGM which everyone is welcome to attend.

For information about how to get there please see: http://www.gloucestershire.gov.uk/archives/article/107383/The-Frith-Centre.

Cost: £25 for ARA members, £30 for non-ARA members, including lunch and refreshments.

For online bookings please see: is http://www.archives.org.uk/events/viewevent.html?eventid=281

PROGRAMME

9:00 – 9:20      Registration and coffee

9:20 – 9:30      Introduction and housekeeping

9:30 – 10:15    Keynote lecture 1 – Ian Coulson, Schools History Project, title tbc

10:15 – 10:45  Pupils in the Archive, Archives in the Classroom: Experiences of an Archivist/’Teacher’ at Westminster School, Elizabeth Wells, Westminster School Archives

10:45 – 11:15  In Your Own Backyard: Using Local Services to Support the Primary National Curriculum from 2014, Becky Sheldon, Derbyshire Record Office

11:15 – 11:30  Discussion

11:30 – 11:45  Tea/Coffee break

11:45 – 12:15  Engagement Through Participation: Designing Research, Edward Bottoms, Architectural Association Archives

12:15 – 12:45  Every Picture Tells a Story: Using Old Photographs as a Teaching Aid for NEETS, Dr Ann McVeigh, PRONI

12:45 – 13:00  Discussion

13:00 – 13:45  Lunch

13:45 – 14:30  Keynote lecture 2 – Scotland’s Archives and Excellence in Learning, Douglas Roberts, Scottish Council on Archives, and Rachel Hart, University of St. Andrews Archives and Special Collections

14:30 – 15:00  Learning to Read: The Archivist as a Teacher in the Provision of Palaeography Classes, Peter Lester, Nottinghamshire Archives

15:00 – 15:30  Making the Case for Archives Learning and Outreach as a Standalone Profession, Sarah Chapman and Lynsey McNab, University of Aberdeen Archives and Special Collections

15:30 – 15:45  Discussion

15:45 - 16:30   ALES AGM

16:30               Conclusion and departure

Institute Of Education Archives Event - Tuesday 25th March 2014

On Tuesday 25^th March 2014 the Institute of Education Archives will be holding its annual Friends of Newsam Library & Archives’ (FNLA) Study Day. This year’s event, “Anthem for doomed youth”?: exploring conflict and resolution through archives, considers the concepts of war, conflict and peace through the lens of learning and education.  

It is an informal day of talks and discussion from a range of people looking at the impact of war on education provision and the current work of the Institute of Education to teach today’s children about war and peace through archive collections – including the Centenary First World War Battlefields Project which was announced last year.

The day’s programme:

9.45-10.00	Welcome and Introductions (Sean Curran)
10.00-10.30	Activities in the Library and Archives (Sarah Aitchison)
10.30-11.30	Professor Stuart Foster & Simon Bendry Centenary First World War Battlefields Project
11.30-12.30	Dr Barry Blades, Teachers and the Great War, 1914-1919
12.30-13.30	Lunch (please bring your own). Tea and coffee will be provided.
13.30- 14.30	Walter Lewis, Educating Service Children in the 20th Century
14.30-15.30	Alix Hall, Thinking Outside the Box: Using Archives to Teach Perspectives on Wartime
15.30-16.00	Archive showcase of relevant collections from the Library Special Collections and Archives

Where: Newsam Library & Archives, Institute of Education, 20 Bedford Way, London
When: Tuesday, 25 March 2014 from 09:30 to 16:00
Register for free tickets here

Becky Webster

Archivist

Newsam Library and Archives
Institute of Education, University of London
20 Bedford Way
London WC1H 0AL

Tel: +44 (0)20 7612 6983

http://www.ioe.ac.uk/

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Archives for Learning and Education Section Annual Conference 2014: Call for Papers

The Archivist as a Teacher

The Frith Centre, Gloucestershire Archives, 30^th May 2014

Archivists are often portrayed as professional multi-taskers. One of the most valuable skills they possess is the ability to present, disseminate and make information accessible to a variety of audiences in a wide range on contexts and formats. In some respects, archivists share skill sets with teachers and more broadly speaking with education professionals. This is particularly the case when archivists become involved in the development of educational resources.

This one-day conference would like to explore that aspect of the archivist’s work. Questions that we wish to cover in the day include:

• should archivists consider themselves to be 'teachers' - what is teaching and is that what we do in these situations?
• what are the skills that archivists need to share with teachers?
• what do archivists bring to the classroom that teachers and other education professionals can't?
• what should archivists create? – (perspectives on changes to the curriculum in England and Wales and Scotland)
• how can archivists market/advertise their existence and the existence of their resources/services?

We are inviting 30 minute presentations focusing on practical experiences and case studies around these topics. If you are interested please email me (m.castrillo@nls.uk) an abstract with an outline of your proposal.

The deadline for submissions is 18^th March. Once all submissions have been received a small committee will meet to review them and make a selection.

Kind regards

Maria Castrillo (ALES Training Officer)

Dr Maria Castrillo

Curator

Manuscript and Archive Collections

National Library of Scotland

George IV Bridge

Edinburgh EH1 1EW

Tel: 0131 623 3871

Email: m.castrillo@nls.uk