IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): BG 0372 OCCUPY
Held at: Bishopsgate Institute
Title: Occupy Oral History Project Archive
Date(s): 2011-2012
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 1 box
Name of creator(s): Boga | Cindy | fl 2011-2012
Smith | Samuel | fl 2011-2012
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
In October 2011 a small group of MA Heritage students at the University of East London began to collect oral histories from the occupiers at the London LSX Occupy Camp in the grounds of St Paul's Cathedral. The vast majority of the histories were recorded during the occupation in and around the camp.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers, CDs and ephemera of the Occupy Oral History Project (October 2011-April 2012). Includes handwritten and printed flyers; oral history recording agreement form; clearance notes and deposit instruction forms, [13pp] [November 2011-February 2012]; consent forms x2, [4pp] [April 2012]; 'Occupier' newsprint posters, [8pp] [n.d.]; CDs x13 of interviews.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
no further arrangement required
Conditions governing access:
OPEN
Conditions governing reproduction:
Photocopying and digital photography (without flash) is permitted for research purposes on completion of the Library's Copyright Declaration form and with respect to current UK copyright law.
Finding aids:
Copy of handlist available in Library Reading Room.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Deposited by Cindy Boga and Samuel Smith, 22 February 2014
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Date(s) of descriptions: 22 February 2014