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The Affective Digital Histories archive comprises open and publicly accessible data, including images, press cuttings, audio and video clips, and creative commissions. The materials have been digitised and catalogued by researchers at the University of Leicester and can be accessed here via the Explorer, or through the University of Leicester's own Special Collections Online.
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10 second sound recording of keys jangling, and a door being unlocked opened and closed.
Colour photograph of Wimbledon House and Wimbledon Works
Curve begins to take shape, with the Exchange Buildings visible in the background. A colour photograph.
Colour photograph of empty building on Rutland Street, demolished in 2005 to to make way for Curve. The Leicester United Caribbean Association building is visible to the right.
A colour photograph of Urray House, disused and dirty. Detail of a doorway.
A colour photograph of Urray House, disused and dirty.
A colour photograph of the empty space where the Curve was eventually built. Urray House has now been demolished.
A video (audio only, duration 1 minute and 43 seconds) of a man talking about his memories of the Cultural Quarter in the 1980s, 1990s, he mentions several of the nightclubs and the Leicester United Caribbean Centre.
Colour photograph of graffiti style artwork on the wall of Studio 79, a dance studio opposite the Phoenix car park.
Colour photograph of the entrance to Alexandra House.
Colour photograph of the entrance to Alexandra House.
Colour photograph of Alexandra House. Atlantes figurines support the brackets on the main cornice.
Colour photograph of a door with the letter F depicted above.
Colour photograph of Alexandra House.
An early photograph of Alexandra House.
Colour photograph of the interior of Alexandra House.
Colour photograph showing the detail of the roof of Alexandra House.
Colour photograph of the courtyard area at Alexandra House.
Black and white photograph of Alexandra House. Photograph commissioned by Carol Leeming to accompany her choreopoem.
A collection of newspaper cuttings from the Leicester Mercury regarding Faire Brothers Ltd.
11 second sound recording of a toilet flushing.
A 1 minute 35 second sound recording of a van being loaded at Phoenix Arts.
A 39 second sound recording of the hubbub in the Phoenix CafeĢ.
Colour photograph showing the entrance to the Pfister and Vogel warehouse in a state of disrepair.
Colour photograph of the former Pfister and Vogel leather factors building showing detailed carved stonework and leaded windows. The building has been redeveloped and is now apartments.
Colour photograph of graffiti with the Phoenix building in the background, taken from alongside St George's Way.
A colour video (duration 47 seconds) of a man talking about memories of the early days of Phoenix Arts and the Cultural Quarter today.
13 second sound recording of water pouring from a tap.
Colour photograph of graffiti opposite The Shed music venue on Yeoman Street.
Black and white drawing of St. George's Mills, appearing in Leicester : its civic, industrial, institutional and social life, 1927