An academic Geography workshop relating to the topic of flood archives, taught by an Aberystwyth University lecturer.
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"Future flood archives – recording floods and their impacts" - Geography AberWorkshops
People have recorded the floods of the past in a variety of documents and images (e.g. newspapers reports, personal diaries, creative literature, photography). As well as providing a record of when floods happened, these records are windows onto how individuals and communities in the past perceived floods, were impacted by them, and adapted to them. But what kinds of records are we creating today? How will future generations look back at our archives? Are we recording similar details today, despite the development of new technologies such as social media? This workshop will explore past and present records of flooding in historical documents and social media using searchable online platforms.
This workshop is also available through the medium of Welsh.
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