FACULTY

ARCHIVO EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMME

Peter Lester

Archivist / Independent Researcher

United Kingdom

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Dr Peter Lester is an archivist and researcher. He holds a PhD from the University of Leicester. 

His research interests focus on the exhibition and display of archives, encounters with archival material and the design and experience of archival spaces.  He is also a professionally qualified archivist with over ten years’ experience in the UK archives sector. 

His book Exhibiting the Archive: Space, Encounter and Experience was published by Routledge in 2022.

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COURSES

Located within archival scholarship, the course explores the historical and contextual influences on exhibition-making and the impact of different and diverse audiences on the archive.  Examining new spatial reconfigurations of archival buildings, it considers how exhibition provides a forum for engaging with archives in various ways.  It explores how design and narrative work to create experiences with authentic, material archives and how they open up political, reflective and activist understandings of history and the role of archives in this. It considers the implications of contemporary exhibition-making on how we understand and experience the archive and the different ways that we encounter new stories, perspectives and people both in the past and the present.

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