Projects

Learn about the projects that take place in the Centre for Life History and Life Writing Research.

Current projects

Explore our current research projects.

• Lives in Colour

  Led by art historian Dr Alexandra Loske, this project seeks to gather information about the lives and work of women who wrote about, engaged with, and taught colour from the eighteenth century onward. The aim is to create a hub for data, information and image material that will help us understand how women in the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries managed to engage in a field largely dominated by men.

  Learn more about the Lives in Colour project.

• Sussex Retold: Sounds, Sites, Stories

  This project builds on a range of research projects across the University which explore the distinctive regional cultures of East and West Sussex and their local and global relationships. Through this, we hope to enhance local civic engagement and sustainable development in ways which benefit our partner organisations.

  Learn more about the Sussex Retold project.

• Jill Craigie: Film Pioneer

  This thre-year project explores the life and career of one of the first British women documentary-makers, including through a feature length film, Independent Miss Craigie, to interrogate the historical frameworks that have undervalued women’s contribution to the genre.

  Professor Lizzie Thynne is the project’s principal investigator.

  Learn more about Jill Craigie: Film Pioneer.

• The Business of Women’s Words: Purpose and Profit in Feminist Publishing

  This four-year project  explores the dramatic story of the feminist publishing revolution that unfolded during the UK Women’s Movements of the 1970s, 80s and 90s, as well as their legacies for social movement inspired creative industries today.

  Professor Margaretta Jolly is the project’s principal investigator.

  Learn more about the Business of Women’s Words project.

• Connected Histories of the BBC

  The Connected Histories of the BBC catalogue was produced by the Connected Histories of The BBC Project and makes available a fully searchable, digitised collection of oral history interviews all about the BBC.

  Professor David Hendy led the project.

  Explore the Connected Histories of the BBC.

• The Landecker Digital Memory Lab

  The digital brings great opportunities to Holocaust memory, but also particular challenges as we move from an era dominated by face-to-face survivor testimony to an age characterised by mediated memory (as defined by James Young). As digital culture evolves into increasingly participatory networks, how do memory institutions find their place in this ever-expanding space?

  Professor Victoria Grace Richardson-Walden is the lab’s primary investigator.

  Learn more about the Landecker Digital Memory Lab.

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Past projects

See an archive of our past projects.

• Merchants and Miracles: Global Circulations and the Making of Modern Bethlehem
• You can’t move history. You can secure the future. (Engaging youth in cultural heritage. An interdisciplinary AHRC funded project.)
• Sisterhood and After: The Women's Liberation Oral History Project
• Hearing her: Oral histories of women’s liberation in China and the United Kingdom
• Sacred Communities: Connected Practices Across Place and Time
• Places for All? A Multi-Media Investigation of Citizenship, Work and Belonging in a Fast-Changing Provincial City
• 'Deprived White Community'? Social Action in Three Norwich Estates. 1930-2005
• Archiving and Reusing Qualitative Data: Theory, Method and Ethics across Disciplines
• The Committee of 100: An Oral History research project
• Ivy Benson and Her All Girls Band
• Deaf Life Histories (led by John Walker)
• The Genome Incorporated: Constructing Biodigital Identity.