Lots of exciting Archiverse adventures took place during the Tech Week Humber 2022 Education Days on the 10-11 November 2022. The East Riding Archives were invited by the fantastic East Riding of Yorkshire Council’s ICT Schools team to deliver two East Riding Blockdown workshops at Wilberforce College and Hull College, supporting the Tech Week Humber’sContinue reading “Making History at Tech Week Humber 2022”
Category Archives: Project News
Blockdown to a New Dimension
The built 3D creations produced as part of the East Riding Blockdown project have long remained in the Archiverse, our ever-growing Minecraft world, until now…. Our exciting new Sketchfab collection enables you to have a look at the creations on your device in all their three-dimensional glory! We are currently working on uploading additional 3DContinue reading “Blockdown to a New Dimension”
Preserving your Blockdown creations for future generations
Wondering what happens to your Blockdown creations once they have been ‘archived’? Olivia Northrop, Archives Assistant (Digital), tells us more! At East Riding Archives, we hold over 150,000 digital files. Just as we care for the physical items in our collection, we care for our digital ones too. We store these items in a ‘DigitalContinue reading “Preserving your Blockdown creations for future generations”
Watch our video from ‘Digitally Democratising Archives’ event
We were thrilled to present on the East Riding Blockdown at The Audience Agency’s ‘Digitally Democratising Archives’ project dissemination event on Monday 30th May (held via Zoom). This was an opportunity for us to highlight the inspiring contributions from our history-making participants (thank you all for your creations!) and what the Archiverse, our growing MinecraftContinue reading “Watch our video from ‘Digitally Democratising Archives’ event”
Digitally Democratising Archives event
Author’s edit 31 May 2022- this event has now passed. You can watch a recording of the event in our blog post “Watch our video from ‘Digitally Democratising Archives’ event“ We are delighted to show off our Archiverse world at a free webinar next week (Monday 30 May 2022). Everyone is welcome! The Audience Agency,Continue reading “Digitally Democratising Archives event”
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”
Project Contributions now on the Archives Catalogue
Spread the word far and wide- the East Riding Blockdown project catalogue is now available for browsing! Written and built creations contributed in February 2022 are now searchable on our Archives Online Catalogue under the collections reference ERBP. What is the catalogue? Our archive catalogue can help you search what documents we hold in ourContinue reading “Project Contributions now on the Archives Catalogue”
Bridlington hosts the Archiverse
Bridlington Central Library played fantastic host for our history-making Archiverse Minecraft events on two dates across February half term, 19th and 23rd February. Our Archiverse Minecraft events across half term were an opportunity for youths to contribute their COVID-19 experiences to the East Riding Archives by using our equipment at a local venue, such asContinue reading “Bridlington hosts the Archiverse”
FREE Half-Term Activities in February 2022
Looking for something free, fun, and perhaps even ‘history making’ to do across half term this February? Visit our Archiverse workstation! Minecraft expert, or never played Minecraft before? Everyone is welcome. Our Archiverse workstation will be at Bridlington Central Library and the Treasure House in Beverley on set dates across the half term week. BookContinue reading “FREE Half-Term Activities in February 2022”
The Archiverse is now open!
Get your mining pick ready for the East Riding Blockdown is now live and is calling for East Riding-based Minecraft players to make a difference to the historical record. Everything you need to get started is on our Registration page. Parents / Guardians have some questions? Check out our FAQs page, or contact Hannah StampContinue reading “The Archiverse is now open!”
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