Your Heritage
North Devon Theatre Trust worked in collaboration with the Museum of Barnstaple & North Devon, White Moose Gallery and artist, Jane Churchill on this project.
Using the regimental archives of the Yeomanry and the Devon and Dorset regiments, school children and members of the local community engaged with the stories of the men commemorated on the war memorial in the local park. Local historians also fed in their research, and the local community was invited to bring in their letters, diaries and family archives, helping to build up a picture of the area’s social history.
An exhibition and art installation were created, and an open day welcomed local people into the museum and the White Moose gallery, sometimes for the first time. The aim of the project was to encourage people to think about the relationship that the population has with its military heritage.