| Semper Eadem | (Always the same) |
Leicester motto is Semper Eadem, which means 'Always the Same'. This photography and Oral History project documents fifteen places in Leicester which have not changed for at least 25 years. (Read more) |
An installation of the work opens for six months at Leicester New Walk Museum, from March until Sunday October 5th 2008. (Link to Museum Website) |
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Award winning Photographer Maxine Beuret's work looks at the interiors of places in the present which have a strong sense of the past. She has exhibited in the UK and USA.She has published a book 'Departure of the Slam-door Trains' and is currently working on a project entitled 'A Nation of Shopkeepers', looking at unchanged high street shops across the UK. |
Colin Hyde's involvement with oral history goes back to the original Leicester Oral History Archive, which was set up in 1983. He has worked on a number of community-based oral history projects, and has edited several oral history publications. | |
