Finding their Voices
A celebration of some of the marginalised and less-heard people encountered through our Special for Everyone project to address equality, diversity and inclusion in Special Collections & Archives.
This exhibition was on display in the Level 2 exhibition space, Philip Robinson Library, Newcastle University, from 10th April - June 2023
Our Special Collections and Archives contain many voices. Some of them have long been visible and heard. However, those from marginalised groups in society have often been obscured by the narratives we use to describe and talk about our collections, which have tended to focus on those made loudest by their privilege.
Our Special for Everyone project is actively working to diversify the voices included in our collections and to illuminate the hidden or lesser-heard voices they contain. We are doing this by taking a fresh look at the sources and, where necessary, reading between the lines to uncover those which are harder to find.
This exhibition celebrated some of the people we have encountered in the course of that work. It features people who found and made their own voices heard despite their often-marginalised position, and those whose voices have been more difficult to hear. We are amplifying them here to enable a new generation of researchers to discover them.
