East London People's Archive (Eastside Community Heritage)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 2381 C201015
Held at	: University of East London   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.uel.ac.uk/Discover/Library/Library-archive ›
Full title	: East London People's Archive (Eastside Community Heritage)
Date(s)	: 1995-2007
Level of description	: collection
Extent	: 5 boxes
Name of creator(s)	: Eastside Community Heritage

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Eastside Community Heritage (ECH) was established in 1993 as part of the Stratford City Challenge community history project. In 1997 ECH became an independent charity. Over the years ECH has worked on numerous projects documenting the lives of 'ordinary' people from and who live in East London. In 1999 ECH established the East London Peoples Archive.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

The East London Peoples Archive, 1995-2007, including over 1000 oral histories collected as part of projects conducted by the Eastside Community Heritage to document the lives of 'ordinary' people in East London on topics including World War Two; women's history; markets; boxing; ethnic groups in East London including Somali and Chinese; food; parks and the hijab. Also including DVDs on East London local history produced by Eastside Community Heritage comprising Eastside voices: from Canning Town to Custom House, 2003; My Roots, Our Heritage, 2006 and Our Brick Lane, 2007. Published books and booklets on East London local history, chiefly published by Eastside Community Heritage including A Working Class War and Hidden Lives: stories from the East End and index to photographs collected as part of projects by Eastside Community Heritage comprising black and white thumbnail reproductions.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Oral histories are arranged alphabetically by project.

Conditions governing access:

Open

Conditions governing reproduction:

Apply to Eastside Community Heritage.

Finding aids:

MS Access Database and printed catalogue available in UEL archives reading room.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Received Aug 2007

Allied Materials

Related material:

Master copies of the photograph collection are held by Eastside Community Heritage.

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Entry compiled by Sarah Drewery.
Sources: http://www.hidden-histories.org.uk/home.html

Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
Apr 2008