Cultures and memories

The Understanding and Celebrating our Roots project explored the historical links between Britain and Somaliland through capturing oral histories from Liverpool’s Somali community.

The Grade I-listed St Dunstan’s Church, often referred to as the ‘Cathedral of the Weald’, has been opened up to a wider audience.

Heritage can be found in unexpected places and the inner city Leeds area of Little London boasts one of the widest range of communities to be found anywhere in the city.

Persecution and survival helped participants piece together the social history of refugees living in Oxford during the Second World War.

Manchester Chinese archive trained volunteers to record, preserve and share a community’s hidden history.

The area of Gorton, situated to the south east of Manchester, celebrated its centenary of joining the City of Manchester through the Gorton 100 project.

Patrin focused on recording gypsy heritage through GPS mapping, photography and oral history interviews.

This intergenerational project explored links between work and leisure, focusing on the Rotherham mining industry and football club, during the 1940s and 1950s.

The Anglo Polish Society created a touring exhibition, book and archive of reminiscences to raise awareness of the importance of Polish culture and heritage to Bristol’s diverse community.

Volunteers worked with their local branch of Mind to collect and share the stories of people who have used the charity’s mental health services over the last 50 years.

In June 1948, the SS Empire Windrush docked at Tilbury bringing the very first migrants from the Caribbean to settle in Britain. There are many in the Watford community who arrived then, or in the ten years that followed, in what has subsequently become known as the “Windrush Decade”.

The Empire Cinema in Blackburn was one of the first purpose-built cinemas in the UK.