- Title
- Letters to Lizzie: Archival practice and the entangled worlds of Charlie Fraser
- Creator
- Cushing, Nancy; McIntyre, Julie; Coleborne, Catharine
- Relation
- Australian Historical Studies Vol. 49, Issue 3, p. 341-358
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1031461X.2018.1480638
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2018
- Description
- Letters exchanged between immigrants and their relatives who remained ‘at home’ are recognised as a valuable resource for exploring identities and emotions in the formation of settler societies. This article departs from this cultural approach to focus instead on the materiality and mobility of the letters as ‘analogue’ sources of knowledge suitable for digitisation, and what this means for histories of place. Our case study traces the movement of an emigrant’s correspondence from Newcastle, Australia to Duffus, Scotland between 1914 and 1924, the subsequent return of these letters and their enclosures to Newcastle and our decision to request digitisation of the items. We show that while traditional archival practice necessarily alienated collections of letters from either their point of origin or their destination, digitisation has the potential to reconnect geographically distant but entangled worlds.
- Subject
- letters; digitisation; archival; correspondence
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1444575
- Identifier
- uon:42350
- Identifier
- ISSN:1031-461X
- Language
- eng
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