Unlocking Historical Archives with AI

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20th January 2026

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Creative Manchester presents a discussion on how AI can expand access to archives for students, stakeholder communities, and the wider public.

Researchers examine what future archives may look like, drawing on the AHRC-funded Our Heritage, Our Stories project, which applied natural language processing to make community-archive metadata more searchable. The MediaQuery team also highlights how AI-generated annotations can enrich audio-visual collections.

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