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Reclaiming plaques for the people: art raids the archives
When people talk about historical plaques and markers, who should get one, why they matter and what they’re ultimately for; things can get heated. And not just because there’s very long waiting lists on most of the bigger plaque schemes … Continue reading
Posted in Art and Culture, Events
Tagged art, art projects, artists, census, community, cultural data, Danny Coope, E17 Art Trail, edmonton, local history, london, walthamstow
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Peer Plaques: community voices writ large
Speakers’ Corner in Hyde Park, London, was once the symbolic epicentre of free speech, a concept mirrored in city and town public squares wherever people were entitled to speak their mind or insisted on doing so. Nowadays the web with … Continue reading
Digital co-op treasure hunt maps Manchester’s history
Open Plaques resources are explicitly geared for re-use by others, taking on new forms beyond the main website in related apps and ebooks. This was taken a step further when our (current) list of 145 plaques in Manchester was brought … Continue reading
Posted in Events, News
Tagged Alison Uttley, case studies, cities, cocreation, cocuration, collaboration, coop, cooperation, cooperative movement, coops, Creative Commons, crowdsourcing, Culture Hack North, digital archaeology, digital heritage, digital history, Doris Speed, engagement, events 2012, Flickr, Frank Kingdon Ward, games, gaming, geolocation, geotagging, Histonauts, Histonauts2, history, Jim Ralley, location, locative media, machinetags, Manchester, Manchester Archives, Manchester Histories Festival, Manchester University, mapping, maps, material culture, mobile, objects, open data, participation, pervasive games, place, play, public archaeology, qr codes, Robert Donat, Robert Owen, social objects, The Big Art People, treasure hunt, Twitter, urban archaeology
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Flicker Alley plaques reveal innovation hub of early British film industry
Earlier in December I met with two resident traders in the bustling sidestreet of Cecil Court to find out more about the plaque-like blue discs dotted round the windows of its many retail outlets. Today referred to as ‘Booksellers Row’ … Continue reading
Posted in People
Tagged Bioscope, Cecil Court, Cecil Hepworth, cinema, cinematic history, clusters, communications, ecosystem, film, film history, film industry, Flicker Alley, Gaumont, hubs, innovation, Silicon Roundabout, Tech City, technology, UK film industry
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Pinpointing Mozart’s new plaque via London maps and patterns
Until the early part of the nineteenth century the area to the right of London’s Charing Cross Road – then in its previous incarnation as Castle Street – stretching across St Martin’s Lane over to Bedford Street in the heart … Continue reading
Finding Flann O’Brien: plaques, places, tongues and names
Three is a curious number and if he could speak to us now, I wonder what author Flann O’Brien would make of the three plaques in Ireland erected to commemorate him. He’d probably make a darkly memorable quip that appeared … Continue reading
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Tagged At Swim Two Birds, authors, Bloomsday, Brian O'Nolan, Dublin, fiction, Flann O'Brien, Ireland, literature, Myles na cGopaleen, novelists, satire, Strabane, The Irish Times, The Third Policeman, writers
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The People’s Plaques of Islington
Two weeks ago we visited the Islington Local History Centre, part of Islington Library, and underneath which you’ll find Islington Museum (@IslingtonMuseum). Yes it’s all about Islington in this post – and Islingtonians! – because Islington Council in London runs … Continue reading
Plaque to the future: the ebook edition
Much as we hope Open Plaques will support and expand public exploration of our surroundings past and present, we didn’t imagine a selection of our community’s content gracing an ebook in the Kindle store quite yet. Our mistake clearly, as … Continue reading
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Tagged bill mccann, ebooks, h2g2, kindle, london, robbie stamp
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