Writing
20 October 2026 · The culture series, part 1 of 5
A listener, not a formWhy a life story needs someone who listens the way an anthropologist does, and what Maddie is for.
20 October 2026 · The culture series, part 2 of 5
What an archive will actually acceptThe formats an oral-history archive can take in, and why your family's recording should be made with them in mind from the start.
20 October 2026 · The culture series, part 3 of 5
Off the record, restricted, and the two bagsWhat "off the record" should mean in a recording, what "restricted" means, and why a research copy and a family copy are kept apart.
20 October 2026 · The culture series, part 4 of 5
Your family's dish is a lessonHow one family's curry became a learning package, and how a story told to Maddie can become one too.
20 October 2026 · The culture series, part 5 of 5
A community keeps its own archiveThe offer to communities and partners: your stories, your formats, your labels, your archive.
11 October 2026
The recipe is the story.Every family has a dish that only one person makes properly. When they go, the dish goes — not the ingredients, the way and the why. Maddie listens while they tell it.