Join us in collecting images of practitioners, practices, spaces, and artefacts related to print in South Asia – you can help us expand this repository by sending us your own contributions. This open-ended online resource aims to collate visual material from various private and institutional collections to document the lives, labour, and materiality of print in South Asia, from its beginnings up to the year 2000.
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Over a full year of uncertainties and disruptions, we have been able to collect more than a thousand newspapers from over ninety countries so far (with several more on the way) – thanks to our intrepid contributors who have persevered through postal purgatories, lost packages, and multiple return-to-sender situations due to the ongoing disruptions. The Drafts of history project is now ready to unveil a snapshot of a critical moment seen through newspapers from around the world.
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Calling all newspaper-lovers and print-aficionados around the world to take part in our new project ‘Drafts of history’. Be our international correspondent: sign up to send a physical copy of your local newspaper dated 10 March 2020, and be part of a major exhibition of newspapers from around the world.
We are looking to collect physical/paper copies from around the world to create a snapshot of the newspaper as a printed artefact today. Sign up to contribute to our exhibition!
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