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Category Archives: Community Contributions

Bringing Blockdown to School

On the 22nd March 2022 we were honoured to bring the East Riding Blockdown to Springhead Primary School in Anlaby. This delightful group of pupils enthusiastically explored the virtual Treasure House together in multiplayer, and worked on their written and built creations based on their experiences of lockdown. Whilst learning about the East Riding Archives,Continue reading “Bringing Blockdown to School”

Posted byeastridingarchives24th Mar 2022Posted inCommunity Contributions, Project NewsTags:Anlaby, Contemporary Collecting, COVID-19, Digital Engagement, Digital For Heritage, Minecraft Education Edition, Opening Archives, Outreach, Primary Education, Springhead Primary School, Workshop, YouthLeave a comment on Bringing Blockdown to School

Archiverse Minecraft: Creations Showcase (February 2022)

What a fun half term week we had, and we hope you enjoyed it too! The East Riding Archives and Bridlington Central Library were our history-making venues for our fully-booked (wow!) Archiverse Minecraft events across February half term, and we are delighted to present to you our videos and photographs showing off your magnificent MinecraftContinue reading “Archiverse Minecraft: Creations Showcase (February 2022)”

Posted byeastridingarchives13th Mar 202214th Mar 2022Posted inCommunity ContributionsTags:Archiverse, Contemporary Collecting, COVID-19, Digital Engagement, Event, Minecraft, Minecraft Education Edition, Outreach, Photographs, Video, YouthLeave a comment on Archiverse Minecraft: Creations Showcase (February 2022)

Community Feature: Maisie’s Experiences

Maisie recently joined our online Archiverse server, a multiplayer map open 24/7 to East Riding-based Minecrafters. Check out her lockdown story recreated as a minecart journey! Screenshots and the above video of Maisie’s creation will be catalogued and preserved in our archives for future generations under the reference ERBP. Thank you Maisie- you are nowContinue reading “Community Feature: Maisie’s Experiences”

Posted byeastridingarchives3rd Mar 2022Posted inCommunity ContributionsTags:Archiverse, Contemporary Collecting, COVID-19, Digital Engagement, Digital For Heritage, Lockdown, Minecraft, Opening Archives, ServerLeave a comment on Community Feature: Maisie’s Experiences

Community Feature: Participant 4’s Experiences

Participant 4, age 15, has built an ingenious creation on our online, multiplayer Archiverse server which will be catalogued and preserved in our archives for future generations under the reference ERBP. Participant 4 tells us that they studied an online tutorial over lockdown showing them how to build a stool. This challenging build reproduces theContinue reading “Community Feature: Participant 4’s Experiences”

Posted byeastridingarchives20th Feb 2022Posted inCommunity ContributionsTags:Contemporary Collecting, COVID-19, Digital Engagement, Lockdown, Minecraft Java Edition, Multiplayer, Online, Outreach, ServerLeave a comment on Community Feature: Participant 4’s Experiences

Community Feature: Participant 3’s Experiences

Our Participant 3, age 12, has built us two brilliant creations on our online, multiplayer Archiverse server which will be catalogued and preserved in our archives for future generations under the reference ERBP. These creations visualised lockdown as feeling like being inside an ‘indestructible prison slowly drowning’. During lockdown they also lifted weights to passContinue reading “Community Feature: Participant 3’s Experiences”

Posted byeastridingarchives20th Feb 202220th Feb 2022Posted inCommunity ContributionsTags:Contemporary Collecting, COVID-19, Digital Engagement, Lockdown, Minecraft Java Edition, Multiplayer, Online, Outreach, ServerLeave a comment on Community Feature: Participant 3’s Experiences

Community Feature: Abigail’s Experiences

In addition to being creative and having fun, adding your COVID-19 experiences to our archives is one of the East Riding Blockdown’s main goals. Abigail, age 13, has sent us some fantastic creations which will be catalogued and preserved in our archives for future generations under the reference ERBP. From being “Stuck at Home” toContinue reading “Community Feature: Abigail’s Experiences”

Posted byeastridingarchives13th Feb 202213th Feb 2022Posted inCommunity ContributionsTags:Community Contribution, Contemporary Collecting, COVID-19, Digital Engagement, Minecraft, OutreachLeave a comment on Community Feature: Abigail’s Experiences
The East Riding Blockdown is supported by The Audience Agency’s Digitally Democratising Archives project thanks to funding from DCMS and the National Lottery, as part of The National Lottery Heritage Fund’s Digital Skills for Heritage initiative.

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