Journal of the Plague Year: Share Your Story
Our very own Dr Mitchell Harrop has been hard at work on The Journal of the Plague Year, a collaboration with Arizona State University and other institutions world wide to document everyday life during these uncertain times:
Dr Harrop is the project lead on the Melbourne History Workshop curatorial team. In particular, Dr Harrop has been hard at work making sure the Global Pandemic Map of crowd-sourced material is up and running and that the data behind the archive is all openly accessible.
You are free to share your story with The Journal of the Plague Year:
“Join us in documenting our uncertain moment. We are acting not just as historians, but as chroniclers, recorders, memoirists, as image collectors. We invite you to share your stories about how the pandemic has affected our lives, from the mundane to the extraordinary, including the ways things haven’t changed at all. Share your story in text, images, video, tweets, texts, Facebook posts, Instagram or Snapchat memes, and screenshots of the news and emails — anything that speaks to paradoxes of the moment. Imagine, as we are, what future historian might need to write about and understand this historical moment.“
The collaboration comes out of previous work at Arizona State University on crowd-sourcing materials during unfolding disasters, such as Hurricane Katrina. The project has been remarkably agile in adapting and changing how materials are gathered for the archive. The platform has moved quickly to prompt people to record their experiences while they are still fresh to mind.
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