Resumen

The National Archives holds an extensive collection of material related to the HIV and AIDS epidemic of the 1980s. But these records tell a limited story of the spread of HIV in the UK. As official documents of the state, they rarely convey anything of the lived experiences and emotions of people who lived with or in proximity to the virus. Such histories are often preserved elsewhere, by voluntary groups and in community archives. Though they offer different takes on historical facts, both are necessary and valuable. Panel One: Norman Fowler’s battle: the AIDS health campaign, 1986-87, Mark Dunton, Principal Records Specialist, The National Archives. Panel Two: Inside Out: A Visual Design Archive, Siân Cook, London College of Communication Siân Cook is a Graphic Designer and Senior Lecturer at the London College of Communication. Cataloguing the Terrence Higgins Trust Archive’, Niamh Glanville-Frayne, Bishopsgate Institute. A HIV archive view from up’t’North [sic], Darren Knight, George House Trust, Manchester; Panel Three. Researching AIDS and creating archives, Prof. Virginia Berridge, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Activist archives from TNA and beyond, George Severs, Geneva Graduate Institute. When 'Mr HIV is asleep' or 'awake': locating children's voices and experiences in the archives, Hannah J. Elizabeth, Northumbria University; Panel Four: Positively Spoken: creative outputs from HIV youth oral histories, Wendy Rickard, Associate Researcher, Newcastle University. Transformation, loss, recovery and usability: The life and times of the AIDS Advertising Evaluation Dataset, Bernard Ogden, Digital Researcher, The National Archives. UK AIDS memorial quilt: a living memorial, Siobhán Lanigan and Clifford McManus, The UK AIDS Memorial Quilt Partnership . The Ministerial Broadcast: from archive to stage, David Balcombe, playwright