Hidden Stories Book Launch

Affective Digital Histories: Recreating De-Industrialised Places, 1970s – Present explores the hidden and untold stories of the people who lived and worked in former industrial buildings at two locations in the East Midlands: Leicester's Cultural Quarter and Glossop, a mill town in North Derbyshire.
The project has been funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and is based at the University of Leicester and is complimented by an app called Hidden Stories Leicester available on both iStore and Google Play. In addition loads more information about the book, the project and the archive references can be found on http://affectivedigitalhistories.org.uk/
Tonight, Tuesday 31st March, was the launch of the book of 'Hidden Stories', an illustrated collection of stories commissioned for the project. The occasion was marked with readings by several of the authors, including Carol Leeming, and a short film by Mark Goodwin of his poem Mist's Rave. The event was compered by editor Corinne Fowler.
Settling into the comfy seating of Phoenix's Screen 1 we were treated to a mixed bag of performances of a variety of styles of writing. Corinne Fowler kicked off proceedings with a warm welcome and a short treatise on the history of the project. Next up was Divya Ghelani and her story of the Imperial Typewriter Company in East Park Road. This was followed by Carol Leeming with an extract from acclaimed chorepoem Live The Life You Live, David Devanney's Crows Step in The Quarter, Pete Kalu Fereshteh Mozaffari's 5 Glossop Cats and finished off with Mark Goodwin's aforementioned short film.
The book is available to buy from the Phoenix and will be available in book stores soon.

First published in Western Gazette 
© Paul Towers 1/4/2015