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A black man waering headphones, looking at a laptop computer and taking notes in a notebook

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07/03/2023

… Join our free events to build digital skills and influence policy Digital Skills for Heritage 07/03/2023 Sign up now to learn more about planning and delivering digital projects, and shape digital priorities …

Changing lives: from biscuit tin to archive – photo reunites family

Margaret discovered family past and present

Stories

28/06/2016

… great uncle Arthur Corner – he was a teacher, he fought and died during the First World War and her father was named … an emotional ‘Who Do You Think You Are?’ moment. They then brought out a tiny diary dated 1916 and I was actually … ukulele, I was lost without a purpose, I was off the grid. Now I’m plugged in again.” As for the man in the 100-year-old …

Yeovil Town Council awarded £1,930 to mark First World War Centenary

Project will tell stories of those named on Preston Plucknett war memorial

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26/08/2014

… memorial 26/08/2014 Awarded through HLF’s First World War: then and now programme, the project is focussing on the restoration of …

Ickworth’s forgotten war stories

Oliver Crack, from Horringer, who served in the First World War

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29/01/2016

… who served in the First World War 29/01/2016 The Ickworth and the Great War project will examine the stories of local … the future of Ickworth, Suffolk and beyond."[/quote] Now, thanks to an HLF grant of £10,000, this exciting project … through HLF’s community grants programme First World War: then and now . £4million is available in 2016, as grants …

Sweet recollections of working at Rowntree

An example of a vintage Rowntree Easter egg

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29/03/2018

… of chocolate – there was coffee, toffee mallow, orange – and if you wanted some more, you put the tin under the … some cardboard bedding, filing the other side with sweets, then putting the halves together, wrapping in foil, and tying … gym to have a proper bath… It’s funny to think about it now, but that’s what we did.” Listen to the full recording of …

Understanding your heritage

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… you will better understand its importance to place, people and communities, helping you to prepare your application for … why people value your heritage so you can make sensitive and appropriate decisions about how to look after it in the … heritage matter? Having established the facts you should now think about why your heritage is considered to be …

Changing lives: Linda pays tribute to great-grandfather

Stories

07/11/2017

… relative Sidney Stratford. Beginning with a small black and white image of a gravestone passed down from her great … me more details including where the ship had been lost. So now I had an end to the story. Or so I thought.” says Linda. Finding the shipwreck Then, out of the blue, came more information. “One evening, …

A Project To Commemorate The 60th Anniversary Of The End Of Ww2 With The Provision Of Exhibtions And Research Into The Differences In Diet Then And Now And Also The Publication Of A Book Of Memories For The Benefit Of People Bas

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… Of The End Of Ww2 With The Provision Of Exhibtions And Research Into The Differences In Diet Then And Now And Also The Publication Of A Book Of Memories For The …

The project is to produce a book - 'Llandegla Then and Now', comprising a collection of old photographs, oral history and information about the natural heritage of the area The money is for the cost of publishing a book, and cop

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… The project is to produce a book - 'Llandegla Then and Now', comprising a collection of old photographs, oral …

This group is concerned with the preservation and presentation of the equipment and collection or artefacts relating to the Bursledon Brickworks. They will put on an exhibition in September 2000 entitled 'Then and Now' in which

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… This group is concerned with the preservation and presentation of the equipment and collection or artefacts … They will put on an exhibition in September 2000 entitled 'Then and Now' in which Awards for All Date awarded 24/02/2000 Location …

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