"STUDENTS IN THE ARCHIVE" is a micro site of E-HELP (European History E-Learning Project). It's based on a course in local history at Hvitfeldtska Gymnasiet, Gothenburg, Sweden 2004-2005. The name of the course was "Gothenburg History HI501".
We used the Regional Archive in Gothenburg, the City Museum and a few other local places to be able to establish who lived in a certain house at a certain time in the old part of Gothenburg called Haga. The idea behind this exercise was to become more familiar with primary sources of the city history and to be able to document the results with digital resources.
At this time we thought we would start a bigger local project that identified the industrialization period on an individual level. The idea was to first cover Haga in this and the following courses and then maybe expand the investigation into other parts of the city of Gothenburg. Unfortunately this did not happen. I have still kept thiese pages to show the possibilities with local archives and digital resources and who knows - maybe we will be able to continue this project one day...
The old suburb of Haga was our first choice since it was close to the school and it was well known for being an overcrowded part