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Celebrating Community Heritage
Social, cultural and industrial heritage of people in the North East was the subject of a three-year project run by Beamish Museum.
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Social, cultural and industrial heritage of people in the North East was the subject of a three-year project run by Beamish Museum.
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The historic two acre kitchen garden, nestled inside the countryside estate in County Fermanagh, will be carefully restored to its original 1930s character thanks to National Lottery funding.
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Liberal Judaism, a multi-faith support organisation, discovered that the stories of many of the LGBTQ+ migrants they met were being lost.
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The Restoration of the Picture House in Campbeltown is a HLF-supported project in which to regenerate the 100 year-old cinema
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The Tay Landscape Partnership scheme provided opportunities for people to learn about and more actively participate in their landscape and its heritage.
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As holders of the UK City of Culture title in 2017, Hull received a grant of £3million to embed its rich heritage into the heart of its year-long cultural programme.
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The stories of 10 Caribbean elders from the Windrush generation, who arrived in the UK between the 1940s and 1960s, have been recorded and shared for the first time.
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The origins of traditional Indian games, the rules and how they changed after players traveled to the UK, were recorded in this intergenerational oral history project.
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Funding was awarded to improve the visitor facilities and storage conditions at Fort Nelson, a 19-acre Victorian gun fort, overlooking Portsmouth Harbour.
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The wildfowl reserve at Welney was set up in 1969, and is one of two sites managed by Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT) that is purely devoted to wild birds.
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Longstone Local History Group carried out further archaeological work on an Iron Age Hill Fort near Bakewell, covering the full extent of Fin Cop.