DIY History (V1503)
DIY History
Module V1503
Module details for 2026/27.
15 credits
FHEQ Level 6
Module Outline
This module picks up on themes of how we engage with history beyond the University setting encountered in core History modules. However, we flip the relationship between academic and public history, asking what we might learn from history practiced as a community and publicly shared resource. Via hands-on experimentation with forms of DIY media practice such as zine making and meme creation, we explore how they remake relations between past and present. We consider the role of community and subcultural archiving in recording and disseminating local, grassroots and ephemeral histories. We examine how these histories then connect us with regional, national and global stories. The module ends by applying our collective learning to a collaborative project with community and heritage partners beyond the University, gaining crucial experience of history as a means to build lives, careers and communities.
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