Listening to the Commons
About
Listening to the Commons is an AHRC funded project which builds on the work spearheaded by the AHRC ‘St Stephen’s Chapel’ project. The project aims to recover the soundscape of debate as experienced by women listening through a ventilator in the old House of Commons c. 1800-34. It is a collaborative project which will highlight the deep history of women’s participation in politics by developing and adapting visual models of the 1834 House of Commons into acoustic models to create contemporary auralizations (aural reconstructions) of speeches and debate.
The project builds on the University of York and UK Parliament collaboration established through the AHRC St Stephen’s Chapel Project while establishing new interdisciplinary links between the Department of History with the Digital Creativity Lab and Department of Electronics at University of York.
The results of the project will be incorporated into the Vote 100 exhibition at Parliament in June 2018 allowing visitors to engage with the digital outputs and recover women’s experience of politics c. 1800-34.
