From January through March 2009 QueenSpark worked with the University of Brighton to interview elders from around the City about their experience of going to the cinema from the 1930s-1960s. Their testimonies were recorded, and some now form part of Back Row Brighton, the first QueenSpark publication within the Write to Publish programme.

All of the oral histories are now safely archived at the University of Brighton which was particulary keen to preserve stories of people visiting the Duke of York cinema in the run up to its centenary in 2010.

A large gathering of volunteers and contributors got together for the launch of the Letter in the Attic project at Community Base on the 27 November 2008. This was the culmination of a year of work by volunteers collecting and archiving letters, diaries of daily life, travel journals and war letters written centuries ago or in the last few years.

To get a taste of the fascinating range of writing in the collection, visit the Letter in the Attic exhibition or buy the journal and create your own heirloom.

QueenSpark helped Zap Art to celebrate twenty-five years of innovation with the launch of the ZAP book in late October 2006. Using the Zap's collection of videos, posters, flyers, listings, recordings and other artefacts, this charts the organisation's wild ride across a diverse cultural terrain encompassing performers, poets, musicians, dancers, comedians, Live Artists, DJs and pyrotechnicians.

Funded by Awards for All and Brighton & Hove Council’s Arts Partnership Award, The Faith Project used oral history and video work to help members of the Sudanese Coptic, Muslim and Progressive Jewish communities to collate a history of how and why the followers of these faiths arrived in Brighton and the traditions and customs that they brought with them. Project extracts are featured in a book focusing on the positive contribution that the faiths have made to the common heritage of the city. Sadly, we have run out of copies but you can vote for a reprint.