Cultures and memories

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

Highgate Baptist Church researched the remarkable life of Peter Stanford, Birmingham’s first black minister.

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.

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.

OutStories have collected and preserved the heritage of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered (LGBT) communities of Bristol and the surrounding area.

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

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

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.

Sussex schoolchildren were introduced to stoolball, a medieval forerunner of cricket, in a wide-ranging sport and rural history project.

The project celebrated 100 years of the Women’s Institute (WI) in the Isle of Ely.

This project was based around a dress collection that was gifted to City College Peterborough.

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.