Today sees the launch of the East London lives 2012, a digital archive project which aims to document some aspects of change in the lives of East Londoners towards the hosting of the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. This archive hosts content from research projects based at the University of East London and other contextualising material about London, some of which is historical. The UEL research team carrying out work specifically for the archive focused on five London boroughs: Greenwich, Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets and Waltham Forest with the objective of documenting the outcomes of two of the Olympic bid promises: social regeneration, and health and wellbeing. As time goes on, content will be added to this resource, making it a ‘living archive’. We hope it will become a valuable resource for students at UEL and for the wider community.

This archive project is funded by HEFCE's Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) as part of the Enriching Digital Resources programme, a strand of the digitisation programme.

East London lives 2012