In late 2022, as part of our Brighton Incoming project, QueenSpark begun interviewing people associated with The Bevy in Moulsecoomb, Brighton & Hove Faith in Action, and Refugee Radio. We wanted to explore why people have arrived, moved around, and stayed in Brighton. Along the way we entered into partnership with Hopeful Solidarities, who had [...]
QueenSpark is delighted to launch our new archive website, to mark our 50th Anniversary year. The site features, for the first time, the full text from our very first book - Poverty - Hardship But Happiness - through to every book that we published up until 2010. The archive is a completely unique document of [...]
Around 100 people joined QueenSpark on Zoom on the evening of 15th September 2020 for the launch of 'Discover Brighton', a series of new walks created as part of our Archives Alive project. You can now access the nine walks - which include audio, photographs and text covering aspects of the city's history over the [...]
As part of our Archives Alive project, before lockdown Collected Works ran a series of workshops in community centres and libraries across Brighton & Hove. They used our four latest books to inspire reminiscence and new creative work. Here is a video of some of the wonderful outcomes - and an opportunity for you to [...]
On July 25th 2019, at a launch at Brighton's Toy Museum, QueenSpark announced four new publications from our Archives Alive project. With content from QueenSparks' and other archives selected and edited by teams of volunteers under the guidance of Editor Evlynn Sharp, and in collaboration with designers Emily Macauley and Chris Callard, the books mark [...]
Intergenerational Meet-Up at The Pavilion Gardens Cafe By Sarah Hutchings In June 2015 our young Brighton's Graphic War participants were treated to an intergenerational meet-up at Brighton and Hove's iconic Pavilion Gardens Cafe, courtesy of the Hedgecock Bequest and David Sewell (at Pavilion Gardens Cafe). Social geographer Geoffrey Mead was on hand to provide some fascinating [...]
A Visit to The Keep with the Graphic War team By Sarah Hutchings Isilda Almeida-Harvey and the team at The Keep did a great job of showing our young volunteers round and explaining how material could be accessed at The Keep. Several of the volunteers have expressed a desire to make return trips there to help [...]
In November 2008 a large gathering got together for the launch of the Letter in the Attic Project at Community Base, here in Brighton. This event was the culmination of a year of work by volunteers collecting and archiving letters, diaries of daily life, travel journals and war letters written centuries ago or in the last few [...]