LornaLPodcast wrapped-up

We recently discovered this lovely shot of Lorna amongst some 'new' (at least to us) materials that the daughter of one of Lorna's first cousins passed on to Platform to Platform team member Hazel Hall. We think it fitting that the last blip in this journal should feature the remarkable young woman whose writing inspired our Platform to Platform project to create a podcast series of The Diary of the war, and to explore audience engagement with archives digitised in different formats.

Much has been achieved since we set up this journal for the Platform to Platform project on 2nd February 2021 (building on the effort that hazelh put into her 'secret recreational project' between 31st August 2019 and 11th January 2021). The practical work that we undertook during the funded period of the project between February and July 2022 is documented here in the LornaLPodcast journal. 

In the past year, our work has continued. This has been mainly concerned with promoting the podcast series and the dissemination of the findings from our empirical work. In addition, members of the Blipfoto community have generously contributed to our blipper-sourced collaborative online photo album of locations mentioned in Lorna's war diary. There is more information about the work completed over the past 12 months in a new post on Hazel's blog at http://hazelhall.org.

Also in the blog post are some more 'new' pictures of Lorna from the recently rediscovered 1930 edition of her father Albert's Lloyd's Annual, as well as further examples of Lorna's artwork - some from the 1930 annual, and others from a collection of Lorna's short stories entitled Twilight tales.

Although we're treating this entry as a 'wrap-up' for the LornaLPodcast journal, our Lorna-related work continues. You can also read more about our plans at the end of Hazel's blog post.

The whole Platform to Platform project team would like to thank the Blipfoto community for all their support of our efforts to bring Lorna's work to a larger audience, and to participate in our research on audience engagement with digitised archived data sets. We are especially grateful to those who participated in the empirical study, and who contributed to the photo album. Thank you all!