Urban Memory, Archival Silences and the Epistemologies of Historical Narrative in Canterbury Part 1 Dissertation 2026 Ellisse Nasry University for the Creative Arts | UK "This project explores how places are remembered, represented, and reinterpreted when official histories leave certain voices absent. Focusing on the Canterbury ducking stool - a heritage object connected to the public punishment of women accused of ‘scolding’ - the work examines the gap between the survival of a physical artefact and the disappearance of the lived experiences connected to it.The project consists of two experimental outcomes. The first is a critical-fabulation narrative based on the 1696 archival deposition of Anne Warwick, a woman recorded as being dragged through Canterbury and ducked in the River Stour. Using the archive as a starting point rather than a complete record, the narrative explores how creative and ethical storytelling can acknowledge historical silence without claiming to recover what has been lost.The second outcome is a topologically inspired counter-map that reinterprets Anne Warwick’s movement through the city. Rather than presenting a traditional geographical representation, the map layers archival evidence, narrative fragments, and broader historical information to reveal relationships between place, memory, and absence. Together, these works challenge fixed ideas of heritage and explore alternative ways of representing histories that have been marginalised, forgotten, or excluded. Tutor(s) Kim Trogal