Alexander Hall
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Exploring images of snow and winter past
March 10, 2014
Previously I posted about the collection of digital composite images that I’ve created as part of the Snow Scenes project. The images, all created from photographs held in the archives at the Museum of Lakeland Life and Industry merged with their modern day locations, are now available for online viewing in the gallery below. Currently …
Bringing archival images to life
January 15, 2014
Alongside collecting all of our participants’ written and oral memories relating to snow and winters past in Cumbria, the Snow Scenes team have been busy exploring how these memories relate and connect to archival records. It was whilst conducting part of this archival research that I came across the Cumbrian photographer Joseph Hardman and his …
Come and participate in person
December 5, 2013
Do you or anyone you know live in the Eden Valley district or the surrounding area? If so, Snow Scenes would love to invite you to an evening of memories of Cumbrian winters past being held at the Tufton Arms Hotel in Appleby-in-Westmorland next Thursday the 12th December at 7:30pm. The evening is a chance …
How we’re collecting your snow memories
November 12, 2013
Just a quick post, to share the below poster which I have created for display in the School of Geography at Nottingham, where Snow Scenes is based. In addition to introducing the project, the poster shows how we are collecting memories online (through this site and Twitter) and directly in Cumbrian communities, and also how …
Snow imagery from the archives…
October 15, 2013
After joining the Snow Scenes project team in early September, I have spent the last few weeks immersed in a number of archives, searching for discussion, meteorological measurement, images, videos and audio recordings of all things snow and Cumbria related. From wonderful online resources like the British Pathé site, which features over 90,000 clips of …
