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East London People’s Archive (Eastside Community Heritage)
Eastside
Web Address: http://www.hidden-histories.org.uk/
Background
Eastside Community Heritage (ECH) was founded in 1993 as a part of the Stratford City Challenge Community History Project. This project was initially coordinated by the Newham Museum Service and in 1997 Eastside became an independent charitable organisation
During 1999 Eastside were able to start collecting materials for their oral history and copy visual collection which was subsequently entitled the East London People’s Archive. The Archive now contains numerous oral histories and reproductions of photographs taken from the many projects undertaken to date. Since its inception, Eastside has been involved with a number of community projects relating to the recording and promotion of local history both in East London and the surrounding boroughs of the Thames Gateway region. ECH have also developed an extensice and informative website entitled Hidden Histories and this can be views online by following this link:- www.hidden-histories.org
ECH places a strong emphasis on local and community history and this has included the development of a number of projects endeavouring to preserve and document the lives of `ordinary’ people from and who are living and working in East London. Eastside projects to date have included:
A recent project for example was entitled “Working Lives of the Thames Gateway.” The project recorded and preserved people's stories and experiences of working in the many industries that made East London Britain's gateway to the world.
The East London People’s Archive - Digital Archive
The aim of ECH is to record, archive, and preserve for the public good, the cultures and heritage of many of the diverse communities located on East London. In 1999, ECH established their East London People’s Archive, which now contains in excess of one thousand oral histories and over 600 photographs and video materials.
In July 2007, UEL were very grateful to receive an electronic copy of the East London People’s Archive produced by Eastside Community Heritage. The oral history component is entirely digital in nature and can be accessed via a dedicated computer terminal within the UEL Archive room. The photographs are stored in folders as reproductions and copies of the originals can be ordered directly from ECH where a copyright fee may be charged. If you have any queries relating to Copyright or obtaining Digital Copies of any of the Eastside Archive resources, the you will need to contact Eastside directly as they retain full copyright control over the materials.
Their contact details are:
Eastside Community Heritage
Unit 8
44 Gillender Street
London
E14 6RP
Telephone: 020 7538 4545/338
Email: office@ech.org.uk
In addition to the ECH digital archive, the UEL Archives service are in the process of purchasing many of the printed publications and videos produced by ECH to help support both the Eastside collection and the small growing East London Local History collection held within the Archive.
Further background information can also be found on the Community Archives website at where a detailed case-study of Eastside has been undertaken. The case-study can be viewed on the Community Archives page.
Descriptions for all current UEL Archival Collections can be found on both the Archives Hub and AIM25 websites.
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