{"id":1945,"date":"2022-01-28T10:15:25","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T10:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/facultyofeducation\/?p=1945"},"modified":"2022-01-28T10:15:27","modified_gmt":"2022-01-28T10:15:27","slug":"supporting-research-the-nic-costa-archive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/facultyofeducation\/supporting-research-the-nic-costa-archive\/","title":{"rendered":"Supporting Research: The Nic Costa Archive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Arcade Archive Developed<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The <strong>Nic Costa Archive<\/strong> is a collection of coin-operated and amusement arcade trade artifacts, documents, and memorabilia held at\u00a0Canterbury Christ Church University as a resource to support researchers and academics studying this area. It is named after coin-operated machine historian, artist, and author of\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/dalemanpublishing.com\/automatic-pleasures-the-history-of-the-coin-machine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Automatic Pleasures<\/a><\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/dalemanpublishing.com\/more-automatic-pleasures-the-slot-machine-revolution\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">More Automatic Pleasures<\/a><\/em>,\u00a0Nic Costa, whose extensive collection makes up the majority of the archive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Nic Costa Archive is currently being processed, with the intention of key materials being made available on <a href=\"https:\/\/niccosta.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">niccosta.org<\/a>. The aim is to make in-person visits to the archive possible in summer 2022. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Find out more about Creative Art and Industries courses at Canterbury Christ Church University: <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3rZvLwg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/3rZvLwg<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arcade Archive Developed The Nic Costa Archive is a collection of coin-operated and amusement arcade trade artifacts, documents, and memorabilia held at\u00a0Canterbury Christ Church University as a resource to support [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4078,"featured_media":1946,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[581,18,5,590],"tags":[697,701,181],"class_list":["post-1945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-news","category-research","category-staff","tag-arcade","tag-niccosta","tag-research"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"authorName":"Laura Krutnik","featuredImage":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/facultyofeducation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/637\/2022\/01\/anic.png","postExcerpt":"Arcade Archive Developed The Nic Costa Archive is a collection of coin-operated and amusement arcade trade artifacts, documents, and memorabilia held at\u00a0Canterbury Christ Church University as a resource to support [&hellip;]","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/facultyofeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/facultyofeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/facultyofeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/facultyofeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4078"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/facultyofeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1945"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/facultyofeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1962,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/facultyofeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945\/revisions\/1962"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/facultyofeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/facultyofeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/facultyofeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/facultyofeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}