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It's a tricky one isn't it, as long as they stayed true to that interpretation of the archive as very much a 'social' memories project then they've perhaps maintained it's integrity as an archive? Warts & all.
The discussion at the bottom of each account could be seen as 'notes' by other researchers & interested parties and very much an addendum to 'the main event' of preserved memories, and there's many other places as far as the BBC is concerned where further note-taking can go on.
It kind of gets to the heart of the subjective & objective views of history, objectively we can find a lot of the clear 'who, what, when, where' type of information elsewhere, but the People's war archive, while also enhancing that side, added hugely to the subjective/emotive/human pool of history. Perhaps the errors of memory really are an integral part of that side of the record?
Does anybody know, was it Lottery funded? It must have a clear 'charter' of it's aims and intentions laid out somewhere?
Cheers,
Adam.
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