From http://www.historymatters.org.uk:
"A MASS BLOG for the national record. The History Matters campaign has designated October 17 a day for the public to make historic. We have chosen 'an ordinary' weekday of no particular significance to ask you to write a one day on-line diary.
We want as many people as possible - tens of thousands of UK residents - to record a 'blog' diary of this one day to be [missing verb: kept? preserved?-TR] by the British Library and others as a record of our national life.
And we want to urge people to reflect in their diaries how history itself impacted on them - whether it be simply commuting through an historic environment, or how business history influenced their decision-making, or merely that they looked up some old sports statistics or listened to some pop music from the 1960s. It could be anything.
'Ordinary' day
October 17 has been chosen deliberately as 'an ordinary' weekday of no particular significance. We want to record the mundane and ordinary lives of citizens and by doing something contributing valuable to the historic record. Material that could be used by historians and researchers for time to come.
Mass Observation
The idea is inspired by similar experiments by Mass Observation, the social history resource, founded in 1937, and which still exists today - based at the University of Sussex.
How
On the 17 October and for a week after it will be possible to upload your on-line diary to www.historymatters.org.uk. The archive thereby created will be held by the British Library, Mass Observation, the National Trust and others."
I shall take part, both here and on the historymatters site. The Mass Observation archive is at the University of Sussex.
