Run-Time Modules

HoI’s Run Time Module provides the facility to master selections from an image database onto CD-ROM. One organisation to take advantage of this is Central Library in Manchester who, following the award of a grant from the Wolfson British History Programme in November 2000, started a project with the objective of broadening the scope of their photographic collection and building on its’ appeal to young people. For the project 3000 images were chosen from the collection, in close consultation with the LEA, and transferred to CDROM. The CD’s were distributed to Manchester schools for use in Local History project work.

The CD features 3000 images from the digitised Local Studies Collection chosen with reference to the National Curriculum topics in primary and secondary schools. The images show buildings including schools, streets in the city centre and in the suburbs, and people, famous and not so famous.

Topics include:

• Life in Britain during World War Two showing evacuation of children, air-raid precautions and bomb damage
• Britain since 1948 showing housing, costume and leisure pursuits.
• Victorian Manchester showing working class and middle class costume and housing, women workers and suffragists
• The Industrial Revolution including the building of the Manchester Ship Canal, the Cotton industry and social conditions