Cultures and memories

People visiting a Children of the Croft pop-up exhibition

Projects

Children of The Croft

Volunteers researched the history of The Croft in Nottingham, a non-institutional home for lone mothers during the 1960s and 1970s.

Women stitch a story into a traditional Bengali quilt

Projects

Sharing Sherlock

This project focused on actively engaging local community groups and schools in Portsmouth City Council’s internationally important Conan Doyle Collection.

A black icon representing a camera

Projects

Afro Solo

The Afro Solo UK project documented the story of African migration into Greater Manchester during the 1920s–1960s.

Teo black icons representing young people

Projects

1948 Olympic Games, then and now.

The lives of young people aged 17-20 at the time of the 1948 London Olympics were compared with young people today, in this 2012 project.

The front cover of a vintage football programme of Ipswich FC

Projects

Ipswich Town Football Archive

A project to make the Ipswich Town Football Charitable Trust archive more widely accessible, and uncovering the heritage of the club through individual stories and artefacts.

Line drawing of speech marks

Projects

Journey from Bangladesh to Birmingham

An oral history project recording the memories and experiences of people who moved from Bangladesh to Birmingham between 1940 and 1971.

Archive image of a male service personnel
Archive image from the Hadhari Oral History Project

Projects

Hadhari Oral History Project

The Hadhari project recorded memories from a local African-Caribbean care group in Derby, which were at risk of being lost forever.

An old photograph showing a car and three people in front of a house
An old family photograph from the project

Projects

How I Got Here - Journey to Fareham

The project focused on the exploration of maps and local archive material to illustrate the inter-generational journeys of people, from different cultural backgrounds and communities, who now live in Fareham.

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