Museums And Archives

Global Ecology not Global Economy: Archives of Environmental Resistance

This project will preserve and digitise one of the largest and most significant archival collections of Britain’s ecological movement. We will catalogue the collection; build an open-access online repository of the material under a Creative Commons license; conduct in-depth research into the collection, creating guides and mapping connections between our collection and other archives; and incorporate oral histories and community-sourced content into an online resource. We also will run a year-long youth engagement programme centred on histories of the ecological movement, research techniques and archival and digitisation methods. We will run a full programme of events centred on the collection, culminating in an exhibition and published research. Through a focus on archival preservation, public accessibility, public and youth engagement, this project will demonstrate how heritage can drive positive action, ensuring the project's lasting legacy as an educational and motivational resource for environmental responsibility and collective change.