Afterword
ZOLTÁN KÉKESI
After one year of writing about London and Memory, the series ‘Other Cities: London Memoryscape’ is coming to end with a look back by the series’s editor.
The First Page: Pioneering Women Archivists
ELIZABETH SHEPHERD
The story of four remarkable women who laid the foundations of English local archives in the early twentieth century: Ethel Stokes, Lilian Redstone, Catherine Jamison and Joan Wake.
Esporas
VERÓNICA POSADA ÁLVAREZ
Una reflexión poética sobre la migración y la diáspora latinoamericana en Londres, que entrelaza el viaje personal, los sueños y el trabajo de archivo de la autora.
Spores
VERÓNICA POSADA ÁLVAREZ
A poetic reflection on migration and the Latin American diaspora in London that interweaves the author’s personal journey, dreams, and archival work.
Concrete Memories
SABA ZAVAREI
What does exile do to your memories of home? And what happens to these memories when your home is attacked? Do they persist or do they turn into rubble?
The First Page: Emigrant Soldiers
SELENA DALY
Over 300,000 Italian men returned to Italy from abroad during World War I to perform their conscripted military service. What happened to them following their arrival and once the war had ended?
Class, Memory, and the Narrative of Enlightenment
STEPHANIE BIRD, MARY FULBROOK ET AL
Members of the UCL Centre for Collective Violence, Holocaust and Genocide Studies reflect on the reminiscences of a former member of the Nazi League of German Girls.
Storied Walks and Deep Mapping
ALICE-ANNE PSALTIS
An invitation to excavate a place and its memories without digging, deep mapping as a research practice means observing, noticing and connecting with a place.
Of Media, Multiplicities and Monsters
UTA STAIGER
What is the city and how do we map it? Its multiplicities, polyphony and chaos? A critical and playful attempt to map an answer to these questions.
Echoes
ZOLTÁN KÉKESI, VIRGINIA VECCHIOLI
A personal literary essay about a research trip to Buenos Aires and Misiones, and the astonishing connections to Mariana Enriquez’s novel Our Share of Night.
Buried in Plain Sight
MARGARET COMER
What do we look at when we look at old monuments, like churches? What if we tried to look beyond that is visible, opened ourselves to the unknown? Chances are that we see much more than meets the eye.
Memory Multiplied
FUHITO ENDO
Walking the streets of London, Fuhito Endo is reflecting on the complexity of memory and place, and he is pondering these questions, how could it be otherwise, by way of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway.
Remembering – to What End?
ZOLTÁN KÉKESI,
NICHOLAS LACKENBY
How come some atrocities of the twentieth century are generally recognised and actively remembered while others are not?