Elspeth Millar, Project Archivist, writes:<\/p>\n
Welcome to the blog for the British Stand-Up Comedy Archive and the British Stand-Up Comedy Archive \u2018Beacon\u2019 Project, which will be active throughout 2015.<\/p>\n
The British Stand-Up Comedy Archive at the University of Kent was established in 2013 to celebrate, preserve, and provide access to the archives and records of British stand-up comedy and stand-up comedians. You can find more information on the archive itself\u00a0and the Beacon project on the \u2018about\u2019<\/a> page of this blog, and through our blog postings as the project develops.<\/p>\n The 2015 Beacon Project aspect of the BSUCA will organise the public launch of the archive;\u00a0catalogue, preserve, digitise,\u00a0and make accessible the existing collections; publicise the collections and their use; and identify new collections for deposit in the archive. We also have a number of public events planned, including the inaugural Linda Smith lecture, a series of \u2018in conversation\u2019 events with Olly Double, and\u00a0a conference in January 2016.\u00a0 Further information can be\u00a0found on the events page<\/a> of this blog.<\/p>\n In addition to the purposes and aims listed above, within this project we also aim to ask and\u00a0answer\u00a0questions and challenges that may arise from an archive of Stand-Up Comedy, such as\u2026<\/p>\n We hope that the British Stand-Up Comedy Archive and this blog of the project will appeal to stand-up comedians, historians of performance, people who like stand-up comedy, journalists and broadcasters, as well as those interested in the archival and digital preservation issues that we will come across through the project.<\/p>\n Please do send us your thoughts by email (standup@kent.ac.uk<\/a>) or tweet us (@unikentstandup<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Elspeth Millar, Project Archivist, writes: Welcome to the blog for the British Stand-Up Comedy Archive and the British Stand-Up Comedy Archive \u2018Beacon\u2019 Project, which will be active throughout 2015. The British Stand-Up Comedy Archive at the University of Kent was established in 2013 to celebrate, preserve, and provide access to the archives and records of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40163,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[140823],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/standupcomedyarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/standupcomedyarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/standupcomedyarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/standupcomedyarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40163"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/standupcomedyarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/standupcomedyarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/standupcomedyarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/67"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/standupcomedyarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/standupcomedyarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/standupcomedyarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n