Learn 29 Jan 2024

Dig With Us

Overview Get involved with Dig Where You Stand through our resource pack, training programme, one-off events and exhibitions.
Description

Dig Where You Stand is an archival justice movement that brings together artists, activists, educators and community members. We want to empower people to access their local archives and discover new stories for themselves. Join us and start digging today.

Resource Pack

We will soon be sharing a new DWYS resource pack. This will be free to download for community groups, schools and colleges to use when “digging” into the local history of their own communities. The resources here share stories found in Sheffield Archives but we want you, with the help of this pack, to go to your own archives . Digging starts with you.

Training Programme

We have develop an archival training programme for women of colour. This is to address the historic erasure of women of colour from archival spaces. It is also to create a safer space for unpacking the violence in the archive, learning about the lost and fragmented lives contained within it, and supporting one another on this archive journey. Workshops take place once a month across different venues and each workshop is followed by a group meal.

Registration for the next training programme is now open. Find out more here.
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Resources

resource 27 Dec 2024

Surviving Society Podcast

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Listen to the podcast series we produced with Surviving Society.

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resource 27 Dec 2024

Training Programme 2025

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Sign up to our free archival training programme for women of colour (Jan - Apr 2025). REGISTRATION OPEN NOW.

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resource 30 Dec 2024

DWYS Videos

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Watch four new videos that expand on key stories found in Sheffield City Archives.

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resource 02 Oct 2024

Training Workshop 2023-24

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A review of our first archival training programme for women of colour (2023-24)

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resource 05 Jan 2024

Resource Pack

A photograph of three women of colour in the archives inspecting documents A photograph of three women of colour in the archives inspecting documents

We will soon be sharing a new DWYS resource pack. This will be free to download for community groups, schools and colleges to use when “digging” into the local history of their own communities. The resources here share stories found in Sheffield Archives but we want you, with the help of this pack, to go to your own archives. Digging starts with you.

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A photograph of three women of colour in the archives inspecting documents A photograph of three women of colour in the archives inspecting documents