'Even if I have the help only of yellowing snapshots, a handful of eyewitness accounts, and a few paltry documents to prop up my implausible memories, I have no alternative but to conjure up... the irrevocable: the things that were, the things that stopped, the things that were closed off...' Georges Perec.

During March and April 2015 Roma Tearne will be Writer in Residence at the Imperial War Museum's photographic and film archives. She will be examining the rich, diverse, and hidden life within it that lies undisturbed.