Research

The creation and preservation of survivor-centred archives raises fundamental questions.

How will be confidentiality, consent and anonymity be handled?

What trauma-informed frameworks are needed for transparency and trust?

Remembering Together explores these questions, in collaboration with current survivor-activists and organisations, to produce an archiving toolkit, with detailed protocols and instructions, to be used by survivors, archivists and researchers to support archival creation, preservation and discovery. Pilot studies using survivor-activist archives and oral histories will test and refine the toolkit’s content, producing models to inform future practice. A national discovery exercise to identify extant and lost survivor-activist archives will create an open access database that will map the extent of campaigning for the first time.