E-bow the E-mail

E-mail Britain is a new archive created by the British Library and Windows Live Hotmail to save an snap-shot of modern life for future generations, through our e-mails.

E-mail Britain is interested in e-mails that fall into the following categories:

1. Life changers – job offers, marriage proposals etc.
2. Complaints – public transport, poor customer service etc.
3. Spam – the best (or worst) spam emails received.
4. Love and romance – romantic emails which tugged at the heartstrings.
5. Humorous emails – funny forwards, office banter, jokes etc.
6. Everyday emails – exchanging recipes, organising nights out etc.
7. News – good and bad news, births, illness, accidents etc.
8. World around you – emails/views on topical events, news from around the world etc.
9. Tales from abroad – long distance emails from far flung places.

This has never been done before. If you think one of you e-mails deserves a place in history all you have to do is forward the e-mail to email@emailbritain.co.uk, with the category it falls into in the subject box. There are a few conditions, like no offensive e-mails and respect for the privacy and confidentiality of people mentioned in the e-mails (all 3rd parties must be informed, all surnames removed etc). You can read more information here and here. But hurry, you only have til the end of May.