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Archives and Women’s Knowledge

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Viewing Room event, David Sandison. Source: Wellcome Collection. Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0).

Thank you very much for your interest in ‘Archives and Women’s Knowledge’ as part of Daylighting at Wellcome Collection. Unfortunately, we have had to postpone this event. Further details including the date of the event will be announced soon and priority booking will be available for those with tickets to the event that was due to take place on Friday 19 October. There are still several events taking place as part of the Daylighting programme and we hope you can join us for some of them. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause and we very much hope you will be able to make the rescheduled date.

What you’ll do

Join Wellcome Collection archivists and librarians as they share specially selected materials from our collections. View images and read texts that highlight the ways that women are included, excluded, catalogued and classified.

You can then listen and ask questions at a panel discussion about systems of classification and how we can rethink the archives we have inherited.

This event is part of Daylighting, a four-day programme of events to challenge archives, change narratives and amplify new voices.

Dates

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Need to know

Location

We’ll be in the Viewing Room. It’s next to the Library entrance on level 2, which you can reach by taking the lift or the stairs.

For more information, please visit our Accessibility page. If you have any queries about accessibility, please email us at access@wellcomecollection.org or call

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About your speakers

Colour photograph of Elena Carter

Elena Carter

Elena Carter focuses on developing the collections at Wellcome to challenge the way that we think and feel about health. Elena is particularly interested in radical and social histories and material that gives voice to marginalised groups. As Collections Development Archivist, she works directly with people to find the best home for their materials, with a focus on working collaboratively and ethically.

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Arike Oke

Arike Oke’s practice is rooted in social justice and the role of culture in giving strength to, and inspiring, individuals and communities. She has worked in heritage for over 15 years, from the seminal Connecting Histories project in Birmingham, to developing Wellcome Collection’s archive and co-convening Hull’s first official Black History Month. She currently leads the screen heritage collections at the British Film Institute in the role of Executive Director of Knowledge and Collections. She was formerly the Managing Director for Black Cultural Archives, the home of Black British history.

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Loesja Vigour

Loesja Vigour is a librarian who spends her time cataloguing and instagramming books for Wellcome Collection. She is interested in seeking new and diverse audiences for the collections by engaging them with unique, beautiful and thought-provoking content.

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Nicola Cook

Nicola Cook is a librarian, and is interested in diversifying the voices and perspectives of health in our library collection. When she’s not cataloguing, she can be found discussing curious cures in the Reading Room or trawling the web for new zines.