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Manufacturing Pasts
learning about industrial change in twentieth century Britain.
Dr Rebecca Madgin of the Centre for Urban History on how the Manufacturing Pasts project will contribute to the inderstanding of industrialisation and de-industrialisation of the British city
- The Corah factory in the 1960s. Photograph from the Skinner collection.
Manufacturing Pasts is a JISC funded project to create digital resources which will enhance the learning and teaching of British industrial history of the second half of the twentieth century.
There is limited digital content available to support the teaching of industrial and urban history at present although it is a key area of British modern history.
This project will benefit students, lecturers and public organizations with a stake in Britain’s industrial past by creating a range of open educational resources (OERs), and associated digitized resources which use the city of Leicester to illustrate the changing experience of British manufacturing and its impact on urban society, landscape and environment across the twentieth century.
- The Liberty Building. Photograph from the Skinner collection.
Starting in November 2011 and completing in January 2013, the project will create:
- A fully searchable and openly accessible digitized collection of unique photographs, documents and architectural drawings of Leicester factories and industrial communities in the twentieth century. These will be made available as part of the existing My Leicestershire History site.
- A range of open educational resources (OERs) based on the digitized resources which enable their practical use in the teaching of twentieth-century British history, planning and urban conservation.
Professor Simon Gunn of the Centre for Urban History introduces the project and its expected contribution to British industrial history
Manufacturing Pasts is a collaboration between the Centre for Urban History, the Beyond Distance Research Alliance and the Library at the University of Leicester and the Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland.
