Playing the Archive

Sally go round the moon!

Did you know that, according to Swansea schoolchildren, ‘Sally’ was going round the moon (and the sun, and the stars) back in 1952, years before Buzz and Neil set foot
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The Time Telephone

One of the aims of the Playing the Archive project is to activate the extensive Opie Archive in playful interactive installations.  This has led to the development of the Time
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Festival of Play

Play is for everyone. Help us celebrate all things play over this two-day festival filled with workshops, games, and activities designed for all ages. This event is a partnership
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Playing the Archive at the UKLA International Conference 2019

Playing the Archive: Possibilities, performance and palimpsest in children’s oral and media cultures, past and present The Playing the Archive team will be coming together in Sheffield this weekend to
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A Sense of Play

Join the Playing the Archive team from 11am to 4pm on Saturday 29 June at ‘A Sense of Play’ – a fun day of classic and new games for families
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Are you going a little ‘Brumas’? The Opie Archive opens a window onto a 1950s phenomenon

The cataloguing of the Opie Archive of school-children’s play, lore and language is yielding some fascinating examples of playground terminology. Some is familiar from our own childhoods but one contribution
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Playing the Archive begins Motion Capture work

The Playing the Archive team have been busy working on sound recording and motion capture for the interactive elements of the project. Children from schools in London, Sheffield, and Aberdeen
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Playing the Archive Visits the Bodleian Library

The newly-appointed cataloguers joining the Sheffield team, Alison Somerset-Ward and Cath Bannister, accompanied by Helen Woolley, Julia Bishop and Steve Roud, recently got a taste of the task ahead during
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Opie Archive Series B and C catalogues now online

Two further catalogues of material from the Opie Archive have been completed and can now be searched online. The series B catalogue comprises a large database of the Opies’ materials
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Playing the Archive at the Olympic Park

The Playing the Archive team recently visited the Olympic Park in Stratford to scope out play spaces. We looked at cafés and outdoor spaces, and focused especially closely on existing
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Sally go round the moon!

July 24, 2019 Leave a comment

Did you know that, according to Swansea schoolchildren, ‘Sally’ was going round the moon (and the sun, and the stars) back in 1952, years before

The Time Telephone

July 17, 2019 Leave a comment

Festival of Play

July 15, 2019 Leave a comment

A Sense of Play

June 27, 2019 Leave a comment

Projects: Immersive Worlds

September 21, 2017 Leave a comment

Connected to the digitalisation of the Opie Papers, the project will create a virtual, immersive world enabling users both old and young to playfully engage

Projects: Experimental Playgrounds

September 21, 2017 One comment

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