"Take Flight!"
Archive Awareness Campaign (www.archiveawareness.com) is an ongoing celebration of all kinds of fascinating archive treasures. It celebrates and promotes local and national archives. Throughout the year archives across the country open their doors to showcase history, hold open days and present workshops to help the public discover a piece of their own history.
The theme for this year’s campaign, "Take Flight!" is open to interpretation and lends itself to a wide variety of areas of archival work, whether in economic and industrial history; the impact of movement of peoples; innovation and ideas; engineering and science.
The theme is designed to be as inclusive as possible, to bring in archives from across all sectors and thus enable more engagement with a wider variety of user groups. We want this theme to inspire and provide opportunities for fresh thinking in approaching how archive services work with AAC.
We are looking for projects and events which continue to push archive services to groups currently under-represented amongst regular users, including BME communities and younger people.
