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In our Futuris series, we visited an escape room in the Hungarian capital, Budapest. A new European research project is working to preserve historical material related to cultural resistance from the communist regimes in Central and Eastern Europe. But how are they achieving that? In a game room, furnished to look like it was in the communist era, a crime has been committed and players need to find clues to understand what happened. All the furniture is vintage and players have to move real objects including photos, slides and “samizdat” – or underground publications which were illegal under communist regimes. Once the game is over, players talk about the experience with a sociologist. "The players face the reality of the past. And they can learn about that part of history not only at school but also see them here. The actual documents, to see the photos, to be able to hold these "samizdat" issues in their hands and to be able to grasp the past" sociologist Szabina … [Read more...] about Futuris: archiving popular dissent against communism

Sport / Blether with Brown by John Brown January 21, 2019, 9:30 am FacebookTwitterLinkedInWhatsAppEmail Send us a story Sign up to our Sport newsletter Tayport Junior Football Club have launched a new ‘Programme Archive’. The club has been issuing programmes for most home matches since the early 1990s, and every one of these programmes – plus some issued in the club’s amateur days – is now available on a new website www.tayportfcarchive.com. It’s a comprehensive archive of 435 programmes, which have been digitised by staff at the University of St Andrews Library. Through the medium of these matchday programmes, the archive traces the fortunes of Tayport FC during its hugely-successful period in Junior Football from 1990 to the present day, playing matches against almost 100 different clubs. It’s a period in which the club made six Scottish Junior Cup Final appearances, winning three, along with two East Region Super … [Read more...] about Blether: Tayport Juniors’ new programme archive launched

Fourth of July celebrations in Colorado Springs 116 years ago were meant to conclude with a significant bang — a malicious grand finale comprised of about 150 sticks of dynamite.A culprit attempted to blow up the Colorado Springs Electric Company's main plant, which supplied power to Colorado Springs, Colorado City, Manitou Springs and two mills, with 75 pounds of dynamite.The failed plot is the Colorado Springs Police Department's latest peek into "historical police-related events" dating back to the 1800s. Similar happenings are posted to the department's Facebook page every two weeks as part of its "Back of the File" feature, which began last summer.Retired Colorado Springs police officer Dwight Haverkorn researches and selects the historical snippets. Other posts have included a crash involving a "CSPD Cadillac," the department's then 13-man police force, and two police impostors who robbed more than a dozen people in Monument Valley Park. Download PDF But the … [Read more...] about Archives: Colorado Springs’ failed 1903 plot to blow up the electric plant with dynamite explained