{"id":573,"date":"2019-11-06T11:02:34","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T11:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/templeman-exhibitions\/?p=573"},"modified":"2020-02-10T16:11:19","modified_gmt":"2020-02-10T16:11:19","slug":"diaries-of-the-here-and-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/templeman-exhibitions\/2019\/11\/06\/diaries-of-the-here-and-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Diaries of the Here and Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>11 November 2019 \u2013 31 January 2020<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Curated by Dawn Cole<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/templeman-exhibitions\/files\/2019\/11\/DOHN-exhibition2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-575 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/templeman-exhibitions\/files\/2019\/11\/DOHN-exhibition2-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/templeman-exhibitions\/files\/2019\/11\/DOHN-exhibition2-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/templeman-exhibitions\/files\/2019\/11\/DOHN-exhibition2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/templeman-exhibitions\/files\/2019\/11\/DOHN-exhibition2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/templeman-exhibitions\/files\/2019\/11\/DOHN-exhibition2-624x416.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a>On November 11th 1918, the guns fell silent and hostilities ceased on the Western Front with the signing of the armistice. One hundred years later we asked people to record their day on November 11th 2018. This exhibition features a selection of those diaries created for The Diaries of the Here and Now project, which are now part of the University of Kent\u2019s Special Collections &amp; Archives.<\/p>\n<p>The diaries, written by people spanning several generations, and feature drawings, paintings, collage, poetry and even film, and take numerous themes, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">general accounts of the day<\/span><\/li>\n<li>political<\/li>\n<li>remembrance and remembering specific people<\/li>\n<li>memorialisation<\/li>\n<li>reflections on war and conflict<\/li>\n<li>health<\/li>\n<li>Brexit<\/li>\n<li>fears for the future<\/li>\n<li>personal stories<\/li>\n<li>journeys<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Diaries of the Here and Now was developed by artist Dawn Cole (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dawncole.co.uk\">www.dawncole.co.uk<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>11 November 2019 \u2013 31 January 2020 Curated by Dawn Cole On November 11th 1918, the guns fell silent and hostilities ceased on the Western Front with the signing of the armistice. One hundred years later we asked people to record their day on November 11th 2018. This exhibition features a selection of those diaries [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53859,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[157292],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/templeman-exhibitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/templeman-exhibitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/templeman-exhibitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/templeman-exhibitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53859"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/templeman-exhibitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/templeman-exhibitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":593,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/templeman-exhibitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions\/593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/templeman-exhibitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/templeman-exhibitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/templeman-exhibitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}