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more details about them can be found here: Www.zotero.org Username: LondonWalking Password: SHLIHRpass wish to recreate the walks By making Senate House Library’s collection of guides and walks available online, residents of the areas in question will discover forgotten layers of local history and learn to appreciate the significance of their locale. Benefits to Heritage: Digitising the historic walks and trails will enable public access to them without requiring physical access to the original documents themselves. It will therefore raise awareness about this collection without compromising the condition of the documents themselves. The significance of existing heritage from the 18th century trails will be better understood. Internship stipend (6 months) July 2019 Intern learns valuable skills that will help them develop their career about what the intern is doing after the completion of the internship. Engagement with collections at London Archives. E9. School visits/ and extended projects including the following activities: 2 hour-long visits to LMA highlighting aspects of the collections – enabling students to understand mapping – by seeing and interacting with real historic maps, and also learning about archives, and archiving, and the evolving nature of history. Creative activities based on map-making, embracing calligraphy, decoration and illumination, seals and ribbon making and other crafts related to the School Groups Benefits to People: School pupils will learn how to engage with an archive and to use archival materials to develop local history projects to be contributed to Layers. Benefits to Communities: Projects developed through LMA engagement activities will be used as a prototype for the Layers of London website and used to inspire/inform community groups elsewhere. Benefits to Heritage: LMA resources not previously shared online as part of the project will be interpreted and shared. School-driven projects using archival material are developed as a means to showcase the potential of London’s archives to develop informative and exciting heritage projects. LMA Outreach and Volunteer Manager Public Engagement Officer to help publicise May 2018 - August 2019 200 students visit the LMA and engage with resources related to Layer of London. 3 extended projects which involve young people for a minimum of half a term – a maximum of a full term. This would include a mixture of outreach and visits. LMA visits lead to new collections/projects on Layers Projects available on Layers of London website.
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