Birmingham Stories: from communities of interpretation to communities of understanding

总结：伯明翰故事在当地档案馆发现的活生生的故事是理解围绕身份、公民身份和归属感的紧迫社会问题的重要关键。通过使用档案和图书馆资源，我们可以发现自己，使我们能够更好地了解和增强我们对历史的理解。在这种情况下，“伯明翰故事”旨在通过向更广泛的公众受众提供对档案收藏的研究，扩大对城市不同历史的认识，在其众多的声音和文化中。伯明翰故事将根据伯明翰大学的研究，在当地社区图书馆组织一系列信息丰富的演讲和研讨会。这些会议将针对那些谁想要了解更多关于伯明翰及其许多社区的历史。讲习班还将提供一些有用的资源指南，提供信息和实用建议。研讨会和资源指南都将基于伯明翰图书馆和档案馆所收藏的各种具有社会意义的档案。研讨会和资源指南将涵盖以下十个主题和研究领域：旅行社区：边缘城市儿童的声音：背景，文化，图像可视化伯明翰：重新构建伯明翰的摄影收藏。激进的支持者：通过档案研究伯明翰种族历史探索伯明翰的信仰多样性。难民运动：从十八世纪到今天。移民故事：现代伯明翰的形成。《奴隶制与废除：伯明翰资源指南》，《妇女权利：追踪伯明翰的斗争》。公民福音：社会变革网络。与此同时，伯明翰故事还将为希望更好地了解伯明翰收藏品及其真正历史和社区潜力的研究的遗产从业者举办研讨会。以这种方式提高用户和遗产工作者的认识将导致更广泛地促进档案和传播研究思想，这些思想对于我们了解我们自己、文化多样性社会中的身份和社会正义问题至关重要。最后，为了强调伯明翰故事在国内和国际关于身份的辩论中的重要性，该项目将以为期一天的公共历史主题会议为高潮。

Summary: Birmingham StoriesThe living stories found in local archives hold an important key to understanding urgent social issues surrounding identity, citizenship and belonging. By using archives and library resources, we can make discoveries about ourselves that allow us to become better informed and empowered in our understanding of history. In this context, 'Birmingham Stories' is intended to extend an awareness of the diverse histories of the city, in its many voices and cultures, by making research on archive collections available to a wider public audience. Birmingham Stories will organise an informative series of presentations and workshops in local community libraries based on research at Birmingham University. These sessions will be aimed at those who would like to know more about the history of Birmingham and its many communities. The workshops will also make available a number of useful resource guides that will provide information as well as practical advice. Both the workshops and the resource guides will be based on a wide range of socially significant archive collections held by Birmingham Libraries and Archives Service. The workshops and resource guides will cover the ten following themes and areas of research:Travelling Communities: Voices from the Margins Urban Childhoods: Contexts, Cultures, Images Visualising Birmingham: Reframing the Photographic Collections of Birmingham.Radical Religions: Exploring Birmingham's Faith Diversity through the Archives Researching Race History in Birmingham. Refugee Movements: From the Eighteenth Century To Today. Migration Stories: the Making of Modern Birmingham. Slavery and Abolition: A Guide To Birmingham's Resources.Women's Rights: Tracing the Struggle in Birmingham. The Civic Gospel: Networks for Social Change.At the same time, Birmingham Stories will also hold workshops for heritage practitioners who would like to become better informed about research into the collections that Birmingham holds and their true historical and community potential. Raising awareness among users and heritage practitioners in this way will result in wider promotion of archives and dissemination of research ideas that are central to our understanding of ourselves, issues around identity and social justice in a culturally diverse society. Finally, in order to underline the importance of Birmingham Stories in national and international debates about identity, the project will culminate in a one day conference on the subject of public history.