This summer, King’s College London’s Archives and Corporate Services successfully applied for funds from JISC to participate in the latest round of their Digitisation Programme. The programme aims to create and publish digital content that can be used by students and academics in the UK and internationally.
Archives’ project - The Serving Soldier - seeks to digitise around 22,000 items from the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, which has custody of more than 800 collections of material created by senior defence personnel throughout the twentieth century. Original material includes diaries, correspondence, photographs, maps and unpublished reports and memoranda covering the theme of war and peace, international relations and decolonialisation, among other themes.
The Serving Soldier will focus on the role of the soldier in a variety of contexts - as peacekeeper, negotiator, scientist, technical innovator and advocate of the rights of veterans. The project, which will be completed in September 2009, will publish content online to be used in graduate teaching programmes in the College’s Departments of War Studies, History and Defence Studies. The project will also explore the value of selective dramatisation of content as an aid to teaching.
Areas of enquiry to be explored by archivists and their academic colleagues include:
- How the lessons of the campaigns in the North West Frontier prior to Indian Independence can be made available to today’s serving soldier in Afghanistan.
- The changing role of the peacekeeper.
- The evolution of modern surveillance photography.
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