My friend Sally-Ann in Bletchley rang me this morning to tell me that she'd been listening to some bod from the British Library on the radio talking about 'One Day in History'. It is a one off opportunity for everyone (you) to join in a mass blog for the national record. They want as many people as possible to record a 'blog' diary which will be stored by the British Library as a historical record of our national life today...the 17th October 2006. Apparently the bod on the radio was talking about Samuel Pepys diary and saying that he wrote about his political meetings which are endlessly boring, but the real fascination in his diaries are the everyday occurrences...what he had for lunch, how he interacted with people and so on.
Cool. Right up my alley that one. I love doing genealogy (have done family history going back to the 1500s on my mum's paternal line and at least to the 1700s on all others, except one, where we're stuck ("we" being my Auntie Mary and me, as we are the family genealogists), but anyway...witter witter).
So I have just written my entry on the website. I think this particular day sounded really dull and I wasn't in a particularly prosaic mood (or even mighty witty) so it was even duller than dull. BUT in my 'Journaling with Doughnuts' class I am always telling the ladies who take it that we would love (LOVE) to have even a shopping list written by our great-grandmother in 1885, would we not? And, thinking about it, if it were possible for people in 1885, or even 1945, to write an emailed diary entry for the British Library, it would be really interesting to see how life has changed since then.
Anyway...if you haven't contributed and would like to
One Day In History is right here. Go on. Be part of history. You know it makes sense!
My friend Sally-Ann in Bletchley rang me this morning to tell me that she'd been listening to some bod from the British Library on the radio talking about 'One Day in History'. It is a one off opportunity for everyone (you) to join in a mass blog for the national record. They want as many people as possible to record a 'blog' diary which will be stored by the British Library as a historical record of our national life today...the 17th October 2006. Apparently the bod on the radio was talking about Samuel Pepys diary and saying that he wrote about his political meetings which are endlessly boring, but the real fascination in his diaries are the everyday occurrences...what he had for lunch, how he interacted with people and so on. 
4 comments:
Okay, done mine, so has Hannah. I lead an extremely boring life, but I'm presuming that in 250 years time people will find me highly entertaining.
Shame you didn't have to do it yesterday Chrissie, they would think you were nuts!
tickled pink to see MY name on your bogsite! Well done for writing, I don't know what people in 250 years will make of making pizza faces in school and making pots of vegetable soup! What a life !!
Good to speak to you lovely, took me a while to get hooked up to this blog thing but think I have it sussed now !
Bog Site Sally Ann?! LOL!!!
YEY!!! Sally Ann commented after lurking surreptitiously on here for months!
Glad you and Debbie and Hannah all wrote on the One Day In History thing too. I'll have to find your entries when they're all available to view.
I did it as well Chrissie and now I can't wait till I can see it because I didn't take a copy and now I obviously want to scrap it! I was annoyed though, it would only let me put a couple of words in the important words box and it wouldn't let me edit it or anything. Very frustrating *grrrrrr*
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