Collection GB 2381 C201015 - East London People's Archive (Eastside Community Heritage)

5 boxes

GB 2381 C201015 1995-2007 collection 5 boxes Eastside Community Heritage

Eastside Community Heritage (ECH) was established in 1993 as part of the Stratford City Challenge community history project. In 1997 ECH became an independent charity. Over the years ECH has worked on numerous projects documenting the lives of 'ordinary' people from and who live in East London. In 1999 ECH established the East London Peoples Archive.

Received Aug 2007

The East London Peoples Archive, 1995-2007, including over 1000 oral histories collected as part of projects conducted by the Eastside Community Heritage to document the lives of 'ordinary' people in East London on topics including World War Two; women's history; markets; boxing; ethnic groups in East London including Somali and Chinese; food; parks and the hijab. Also including DVDs on East London local history produced by Eastside Community Heritage comprising Eastside voices: from Canning Town to Custom House, 2003; My Roots, Our Heritage, 2006 and Our Brick Lane, 2007. Published books and booklets on East London local history, chiefly published by Eastside Community Heritage including A Working Class War and Hidden Lives: stories from the East End and index to photographs collected as part of projects by Eastside Community Heritage comprising black and white thumbnail reproductions.

Oral histories are arranged alphabetically by project.

Open

Apply to Eastside Community Heritage.

English

Oral histories are stored on a digital external hard drive.

MS Access Database and printed catalogue available in UEL archives reading room.

Master copies of the photograph collection are held by Eastside Community Heritage.

Entry compiled by Sarah Drewery.

Sources: http://www.hidden-histories.org.uk/home.html

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Apr 2008 Wars (events) Agricultural products East London Eastside Community Heritage England Ethnic groups Europe Food Historical methods History Local history London Markets Open spaces Oral history Parks Photographs Trade UK Visual materials Western Europe Womens history World wars (events) World War Two (1939-1945)

Received Aug 2007

The East London Peoples Archive, 1995-2007, including over 1000 oral histories collected as part of projects conducted by the Eastside Community Heritage to document the lives of 'ordinary' people in East London on topics including World War Two; women's history; markets; boxing; ethnic groups in East London including Somali and Chinese; food; parks and the hijab. Also including DVDs on East London local history produced by Eastside Community Heritage comprising Eastside voices: from Canning Town to Custom House, 2003; My Roots, Our Heritage, 2006 and Our Brick Lane, 2007. Published books and booklets on East London local history, chiefly published by Eastside Community Heritage including A Working Class War and Hidden Lives: stories from the East End and index to photographs collected as part of projects by Eastside Community Heritage comprising black and white thumbnail reproductions.

Oral histories are arranged alphabetically by project.

Open

Apply to Eastside Community Heritage.

• anglais

• latin

English

MS Access Database and printed catalogue available in UEL archives reading room.

Master copies of the photograph collection are held by Eastside Community Heritage.

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

• anglais