About Told & Kept

Told & Kept is a guide to memory and the stories we keep. We write for people who want to put a life on paper, record a grandparent's voice, understand how a good story is built, or make sense of the memorials and museums around them.

Most of what we publish is practical: how to start, what to ask, what to keep, and what to do with it afterwards. The rest explains ideas, such as collective memory or the unreliable narrator, in plain language and with examples.

What we cover

• Memoir & Life Writing: writing about your own life, honestly and readably.
• The Craft of Story: narrators, point of view, structure, time and voice.
• Family History: stories, photographs and records, and how to share them.
• Oral History: recording people's memories with care and consent.
• Public Memory: memorials, monuments, museums and how communities remember.

Independent

We are not a publisher, a writing course or a genealogy service, and we do not take payment to recommend products. When we mention a book, an archive or a tool, it is because readers are likely to find it useful.

About this domain

This address was once the website of an academic study circle on narrative and memory run within the Nordic Summer University. Told & Kept is a new and independent project. It is not that study circle's website, does not publish its programmes or papers, and is not affiliated with it or with the Nordic Summer University.