Researching The City support for Field module ADZ 4 888

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RSDRRpr72o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo4alS846Xg

Image: Jennie Savage “A Million Moments” site specific film made for Wyndham Arcade, Cardiff

Archives in Cardiff that you can explore

The Glamorgan ArchiveGlamorgan ArchivesClos Parc MorgannwgLeckwithCARDIFFCF11 8AW

Telephone: (029) 2087 2200Email: GlamRO@cardiff.gov.uk Website: http://www.glamarchives.gov.uk/

Material at Glamorgan Archives cover the history of the county. Guides written by staff http://www.glamarchives.gov.uk/content.asp?nav=2,19&parent_directory_id=1

cover some popular subjects to help researchers get started .They are available to download:

Municipal Cemeteries (pdf)

Police Records (pdf)

Registers of Electors (pdf)

Records of the Courts (pdf)

Records of Poor Relief (pdf)

Maritime Records (pdf)

Become a House Detective (pdf)

The searchroom at Glamorgan Archives is open to the public at the following times:

Monday: 1pm - 5pm Tuesday-Friday: 9am - 5pm

also open on the second Saturday of each month 9am - 12pm, and the following Monday until 8pm. A full list of dates for Saturday morning and Monday evening can be found on the website

Cardiff Capital Collection, Cardiff Central Library

The HayesCardiffCF10 1FL

Tel: 029 2038 2116Email: centrallibrary@cardiff.gov.uk

Library Website: http://www.cardiff.gov.uk/content.asp?nav=2868,2970,4768&parent_directory_id=2865

The Library building was specifically designed to be energy-efficient, and includes a sedum

grass roof to improve insulation and reduce rainwater run-off, coloured glass panels and solar shading to prevent excessive heat gains, and a full Building Management System to provide climate control to individual floors. As a result of these measures the building was awarded a BREEAM rating of 'excellent'.

There are a total of six floors. The fifth floor is used for the Cardiff Capital Collection with books on the history of Cardiff, the Wales Collection with books on the history of Wales, and Welsh-language publications.

Below is the link to the Local Studies catalogue . The Collection includes old local newspapers

http://ibistro.cardiff.gov.uk/uhtbin/cgisirsi/Sb35OqpejV/CENTRAL/54910074/1/1439/X

Butetown History and Arts Centre5 Dock ChambersBute Street (opposite the Baltimore Arms)Cardiff BayCF10 5AG

T: 029 2025 6757F: 029 2025 5887E: info@bhac.org

Website: http://www.bhac.org/info.html

GALLERY & SHOP HOURSTuesday – Friday 10.00 – 5.00Weekends and Bank Holidays 11.00 – 4.30Admission free

The BHAC website has a useful list of books about the Docks/Bay and information on past exhibitions (see ‘Publications’)

Based in the heart of Cardiff Bay, BHAC which began in 1987, involves local people in collaboration with professional researchers, artists and media workers. BHAC collects, preserves, copies and utilises oral histories, old photographs and other documents; organises community education courses and works with schools and community groups.

The Cardiff Storyhttp://www.cardiffstory.com/

Located in the centre of town, free interactive galleries that show how Cardiff was transformed from the small market town of the 1300s, to one of the world's biggest ports in the 1900s, to the cosmopolitan capital of today. The museum, in the Old Library building, is rich in stories, objects, photographs and film telling the history of Cardiff through its people.

The Cardiff Story,The Old Library,The Hayes,Cardiff,CF10 1BHTel: (+44) 029 2078 8334cardiffstory@cardiff.gov.uk

Websites exploring ‘The City’

Sounds of the city: London Sound Survey www.soundsurvey.org.uk

There are over 1,000 recordings of London life on the London Sound Survey website, plus sound maps, historical references to past London sounds, and some original 1930s and 1940s radio broadcasts. All the recordings are safely stored in the sound cloud

https://soundcloud.com/london-sound-survey

 urban75

http://www.urban75.org/sitemap.html

Message board with discussions covering urban issues such as politics, entertainment, drugs, sports and the media in large cities around the world.

http://www.urban75.org/sitemap.html

Classic Cafeshttp://www.classiccafes.co.uk/

Known as 'greasy spoons', Classic Cafes are gems of British vernacular high street design. This site celebrates their ambience and architecture with over 130 vintage London Formica caffs (and many others around Britain) reviewed, revealed & reappraised.

Derelict LondonDerelict London is an unusual photographic portrait (of over 3000 pics by Paul Talling) of the nations capitalhttp://www.derelictlondon.com/

Subterranea Britannicahttp://www.subbrit.org.uk/

Members study and investigate man-made and man-used underground places — from mines to railway tunnels, military defences to nuclear bunkers and everything in between.

Spitalfields Lifehttp://spitalfieldslife.com/

‘The gentle author’ intends to write every single day about life in Spitalfields at the heart of London with the ambition to write at least ten thousand stories about Spitalfields life. At the rate of one a day, this will take approximately twenty-seven years and four months. Who knows

what kind of life we shall be living in 2037 when he writes his ten thousandth post? He does not think there will be any shortage of material, though it may be difficult to choose what to write of because the possibilities are infinite as ‘all of human life is here in Spitalfields’.

City themed Art Projects

Jennie Savagehttp://www.jenniesavage.co.uk/

Artist now based in London based many of her art projects on Cardiff while she lived here.

Links to online projects:

www.arcadesproject.org

www.starradio.org.uk (see also book in Cardiff Met Library Jennie Savage, Star Radio 791.446/SAV)

'STAR : A Psycho topography of place.' STAR Radio was a project that explored the specificity of a 1 – mile geographic area. By exploring this area in all of its multiplicity the project sought to create a relationship between the micro and the macro; in looking very closely at the specifics of a place one discovers all places, all peoples and in fact, all the world, here.

www.anecdotalcity.com

other projects/publications from here

http://www.jenniesavage.co.uk/Publications/publications.htm

Simon Popehttp://www.fvu.co.uk/projects/details/memory-marathon/

Memory Marathon is an 80-minute film of a large-scale participative event in which artist Simon Pope walked a specially planned 26-mile marathon route through the five London boroughs that will host the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Continuing a series of trademark walking and memory projects by this innovative artist, Memory Marathon is a unique collective undertaking that celebrates the enduring importance of personal memories. Starting out just after dawn from Thamesmead in South-East London, and arriving twelve hours later at the entrance to the Olympic Park in Stratford, Pope completed his marathon journey in the company of more than a hundred local residents of Greenwich, Newham, Tower Hamlets, Hackney and Waltham Forest.

Moving forward in an unbroken relay, in which each participant walked a 400-metre section of the route alongside Pope, each individual was asked to contribute a recollection of what is, for them, a stand-out moment from Olympic history, before passing the ‘baton’ of the microphone to the next person in line. Recruited from the East London boroughs adjoining the Olympic Park site, and reflecting the diverse make-up of those communities and the inclusive, international spirit of the Games themselves, the participants’ collective act of commemoration draws from a huge reservoir of sporting and cultural memory, encompassing both triumph and disaster, and highlighting both the intimate and the everyday.

Made in Roathhttp://madeinroath.com/

Made in Roath is an artist-led, free event, which aims to take art out of the gallery and into the wider community. It showcases the work of emerging and established artists, makers, musicians, writers and performers, who use the whole of Roath as the venue, including domestic, commercial, public and overlooked or disused spaces offering a dynamic programme of exhibitions, residencies, collaborations with community groups, workshops and performances.

Books

How to be an explorer of the world: portable life museumSmith, Keri

This is a guided journal for exploring and observing the world as an artist and a scientist. The mission the author proposes is for readers to document and observe the world around them as if they've never seen it before, to take notes and collect things they find on their travels, to notice patterns, to copy, and much more

Published New York : Perigee 2008

Available at Howard Gardens Library and Llandaff Library.

ArchaeologyDion, Mark, 1961-; Coles, Alex

Published London : Black Dog 1999

Available at Howard Gardens Library

Real CardiffFinch, Peter, 1947-

An alternative guide to Cardiff, with special attention to venues not actually on the tourist route, some locations having disappeared as new developments take place

Published Bridgend : Seren 2004

Available at Howard Gardens Library.

PsychogeographySelf, Will; Steadman, Ralph

The very best of Will Self's columns for the 'Independent' on the oddities of place, with Ralph Steadman's trademark illustrations

Published London : Bloomsbury 2007

Available at Cyncoed Library and Howard Gardens Library.

DVD’s

The City: the classic 1939 documentary film with a newly recorded soundtrack of the score by Aaron CoplandCopland, Aaron; Gil-Ordòñez, Angel; Post-Classical ensemble; Horowitz, Joseph

Made for the 1939 World’s Fair (“The World of Tomorrow”), The City is a classic documentary film

distinguished for its organic integration of narration (scripted by Lewis Mumford), cinematography

(by Ralph Steiner and Willard Van Dyke), and music (by Copland). The resulting tapestry is

astonishing for its vibrance and originality. Because filming outdoors with sound was so difficult and

expensive, the story is told without dialogue, relying solely on its imagery, narration, and music. It is

the absence of dialogue that makes it possible to create a new soundtrack – and for the first time do

justice to the symphonic detail and depth of Copland’s score.Depicting in sequence a New England

village, a milltown, a “city,” and a “new town,” The City illustrates how the frantic pace of city and

milltown living destroyed the quality of life formerly found in rural America-but which could be

recaptured in “planned communities of modest size.”

Available at Howard Gardens Library

MetropolisLang, Fritz

It is the future, and humans are divided into two groups: the thinkers, who make plans (but don't know how anything works), and the workers, who achieve goals (but don't have the vision). Completely separate, neither group is complete, but together they make a whole. One man from the "thinkers" dares visit the underground where the workers toil, and is astonished by what he sees

2001 restoration

Published [U.K.] : Eureka 2005

Available at Howard Gardens Library and Llandaff Library.

Michael Nyman's Man with a movie cameraDziga Vertov's Man with a movie camera is considered one of the most innovative and influential films of the silent era. This dawn-to-dusk view of the Soviet Union offers a montage of urban Russian life, showing the people of the city at work and at play, and the machines that endlessly whirl to keep the metropolis alive. As an early experimental film, use is made of trick

photography, slow-motion, and animation

Published British Film Institute 2004, 2008

Available at Howard Gardens Library

The London Nobody Knows/Les Bicyclettes De BelsizeCohen, Norman (Norman Harris), 1941-; Fletcher, Geoffrey; Hickox, Douglas

The London Nobody Knows exposes the real London of the swinging sixties. Turning its back on familiar sights, the film explores the hidden details of a crumbling metropolis. With James Mason as our guide, we are led on a tour of the weird and wonderful pockets of London from abandoned music-halls to egg breaking factories."Les Bicyclettes de Belsize is an enchanting musical love story about a young man who falls for a model after seeing her picture and then takes to the streets on his bicycle to find her."

Published Optimum Home Entertainment 2008

Available at Howard Gardens Library.