Wiener Holocaust Library, London. Friday 27 November 2026, 10.30am-4pm
Improved digital access to far-right material at archives, libraries, and beyond has been benefitting researchers and anti-far right educators and activists. It also presents challenges, not least amidst a surge in public support for far-right parties and an increase in racist and antisemitic incidents.
This one-day workshop will bring together archivists, librarians, scholars, educators, and practitioners, to explore the opportunities and challenges of researching, preserving, and teaching with far-right materials in an increasingly digital environment.
We invite proposals for contributions that engage with one or more of the following themes:
- Challenges of digitisation and access to far-right archival collections, including practical, ethical, legal, and methodological considerations.
- Digital materials and pedagogy, including teaching with born-digital or digitised far-right sources, and broader approaches to teaching with far-right materials.
- Artificial intelligence, social media, and far-right research, including the ethics of use of AI in archival and research contexts, digital methods, platform studies, and the implications of emerging technologies for the study of the far right, including the use of AI and social media platforms by contemporary far-right groups.
Rather than formal conference papers, we invite informal ten-minute presentations that introduce a challenge, case study, project, or methodological question. Presentations should conclude with one or more questions to stimulate discussion, allowing the workshop to prioritise conversation, knowledge exchange, and collaborative problem-solving.
We warmly encourage participation from:
- Archivists and librarians
- Curators
- Academics, including early career researchers and doctoral students
- Educators and teachers
- Practitioners working in far-right prevention and counter-extremism
- Digital humanities scholars and digital preservation specialists
- AI, social media, and digital technology experts whose work intersects with these issues
Our goal is to create an interdisciplinary and welcoming forum where participants can share expertise, reflect on common challenges, and identify opportunities for future collaboration.
Submission
Please email a short abstract of up to 150 words by Tuesday, 29 September to Rosie Frank at rfrank@wienerholocaustlibrary.org outlining your proposed presentation and indicating which workshop theme(s) it addresses.
We look forward to bringing together colleagues from across sectors to discuss the future of far-right archives and research in the digital age.
This event is a collaboration between the Wiener Holocaust Library, London, as part of its National Heritage Lottery Fund project ‘Digital Transformation: Connecting Collections and Communities’, and Dr Rachel Moss, the University of Northampton, in relation to her British Academy Small Research Grant ‘Medievalism, gender and politicised nostalgia in the British extreme right, 1962 – 1982’. There will be a modest fund available for travel expenses for colleagues who are unable to access institutional funding; please contact us for further details.
