Revealing Histories

The Lottery, MLA and Renaissance North West funded Museum and Gallery project Revealing Histories broke new ground in collections research, inter-institutional collaborative working and community co-production in Greater Manchester. We've given the project a cutting edge website to match.

Targeted at the public, researchers and school children, this multimedia resource provides multiple ways of engaging with this fascinating piece of history through interactive maps, videos, timelines, text content, artefacts, photographs and more.

We co-produced website with a range of local artists, writers, historians and 9 partner institutions including:

The site provides wealth of information about the fascinating, often hidden history of the transatlantic slave trade and it's abolition in Britain in 1807 relating this huge history to Greater Manchester and modern day life.

The website was lauched on the 11th of July with a great deal of local publicity including features on North West Tonight, BBC Manchester Website, BBC Radio Manchester Lunchtime and Drivetime, Channel M, The Manchester Evening News, Manchester Digital Development Agency and the Guardian website.

Revealing Histories - Was Manchester Built By Slaves?

Further information

Revealing Histories 2D barcode project

Part of research being undertaken by Julian Tomlin for the London Museums Hub into the potential uses of machine-readable technologies to provide greater visitor access to interpretation and information in museums, this experiment was run in conjunction with Manchester Art Gallery to provide information to visitors via mobile devices.

2D Quick Response codes linked visitors to a specially-formatted web page containing further information about the object on display and links to additional multimedia information such as photographs, verbal interpretations from experts and curators or poetry from local performers.

Further information:

Manchester Digital Development Agency