Thanks to colleague, Celia Walter, for passing this on.
This website is the outcome of a project, part funded by the AHRC, to
document the traces of colonial (and specifically British) settlement of South
Africa’s Eastern Cape. Through photographs of the built environment of small
towns in the area, documentary photographer Peter Metelerkamp examines both the
continuing “visible influence of colonial presence” and traces its passing and
contemporary social change (less than 10f the regions rural population is of
white settler descent). The website “is not intended to offer an apologia for
the settler project, nor to celebrate its demise; rather it is an invitation to
reflect on its character”, and it contains some 81 elegaic images of ‘settler
country’. From Intute.ac.uk
The Great War Archive contains over 6,500 items contributed by the
UK general public between March and June 2008. Every item originates from,
or relates to, someone's experience of the First World War. Contributions were received via a special website
and also through a series of open days at libraries and museums
throughout the UK.
Although the project came to an end, there is still the opportunity to add images to Flickr at The Great War Archive Flickr Group.
The Great War Archive is part of the First World War Poetry Digital Archive, an online repository
of over 4000 items of text, images, audio, and video for teaching,
learning, and research. The First World War Poetry Digital Archive includes collections of primary material from major poets of the period, as well as a range of multimedia artefacts from the Imperial War Museum and Great War Archive itself.
