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Free Thinking: Archiving, curating and digging for data

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Behind the scenes at the Hepworth Wakefield, the Barbican and the Alan Turing Institute.

Lisa Mullen hears stories from archives collected by residents around the Barbican, explores the way data is changing our view of history and looks at sculpture conservation.

What stories are being uncovered by people working behind the scenes at museums and institutions?   Lisa Mullen finds out talking to Tessa Jackson – Conservator; 
David Beavan – Senior Research Software Engineer, Turing Institute and Matt Harle – Archivist and curator at the Barbican.


Barbara Hepworth: Art & Life runs at the Hepworth Wakefield from 21 May 2021 to 27 Feb 2022.  The gallery also runs a Hepworth Research Network in partnership with the Department of History of Art at the University of York and the School of Art, Design and Architecture at the University of Huddersfield.
https://hepworthwakefield.org/our-story/hepworth-research-network/people/

Matthew Harle is an archivist working with the Barbican as it prepares for its 40th anniversary so is assembling an archive alongside the Guildhall School of Music and Drama 
https://www.barbican.org.uk/our-story/our-archive/about-the-archive 
https://matthewharle.com/Barbican-Archive  

The Alan Turing Institute https://www.turing.ac.uk/ is the national institute for data science and artificial intelligence running a host of research projects into topics including AI, Public Policy and Living with Machines - a project that rethinks the impact of technology on the lives of ordinary people during the Industrial Revolution.
https://livingwithmachines.ac.uk   You can hear more from historian Emma Griffin in this conversation about Understanding the Industrial Revolution https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p081y7h4 

Producer: Sofie Vilcins

Image: Hepworth Wakefield Art Gallery
Credit: BBC (Ian Youngs)

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