The Humanitarian Archive Emergency 

This piece by Dr Philip Proudfoot (Institute of Development Studies), Helene Juillard (Key Aid Consulting), and Prof Bertrand Taithe (HCRI), for the Humanitarian Archive Emergency project.   The humanitarian sector is losing its memory. Funding cuts, closures,...

Why preserve humanitarian archives?

This article by Flora Chatt was originally posted on the website of HCRI’s Developing Humanitarian Medicine project.             The theme of this year’s World Digital Preservation Day is Why Preserve? For the archives of...

Kill Your Ancestors, Choose New Elders

This piece by Dr Omer Aijazi, Lecturer in Disasters and Climate Change at HCRI, was originally published in Wicked Stars: A Zin to Trouble Disaster Studies.   Fields of study are sites of inheritance. We draw upon our ancestors and elders to tell our stories. We...