At the Humanities Conference (Hugvísindaþing) on Saturday, staff of the Manuscript Collection and the Women’s History Archives will talk about the sources used in the project “R1918.” The project, run in cooperation with the Reykjavík Arts Festival and RÚV, consists mainly of readings from sources such as diaries and letters from 1918, kept at the National and University Library of Iceland (in the Manuscript Collection and the Women’s History Archives), that describe life in Reykjavík in 1918. The readings are broadcast on Rás 1 every day at 12:03 and run until June. See their website here: http://www.ruv.is/thaettir/r1918
The historian Erla Dóris Halldórsdóttir will chair the session, and besides the Library’s staff the historian Gunnar Þór Bjarnason will give an introductory talk.
Reykjavík in 1918: the view from personal sources
– Gunnar Þór Bjarnason: 1918 in the light of history
– Guðrún Laufey Guðmundsdóttir: “We were cooking porridge …” The daily life of the Grafarholt family in 1918
– Rakel Adolphsdóttir: “Dýrleif longed so strongly to sail abroad that I could not talk her out of it.” Dýrleif Árnadóttir, a new graduate at a turning point in 1918
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– Halldóra Kristinsdóttir: “No one else can have either use or pleasure from reading it.” The diary of Hannes Thorsteinsson, 1918
– Gunnar Marel Hinriksson: ” … this trivial letter, which I ask you to forgive.” On the documents behind the voices in R1918
– Bragi Þorgrímur Ólafsson: Emergency relief in Reykjavík during the Spanish flu of 1918
The session takes place on Saturday (10 March), 13:00–16:30, in the University of Iceland’s Main Building, room 052.
See the session programme on the Humanities Conference website: http://hugvisindathing.hi.is/malstofur/reykjavik-arid-1918-sjonarhorn-personulegra-heimilda/
