Cultures and memories

Students collected stories and discovered what life was like being blind or partially sighted in the past.

Thirty years after the 1984-5 miners' strike, North Staffs Miners’ Wives Action Group collected and shared the memories of local people.

The Mental Health, Past, Present, Future project is exploring the history of mental health treatment for young people.

When Thomas Henshaw died in 1810, he left a legacy of £20,000 in his will to establish an 'Asylum for the Indigent Blind' in Manchester.

The Recipes From Me to You project captured previously unrecorded information about the culinary heritage of Somali families living in the Granby area of Liverpool.

Led by Liberal Judaism, this project recorded and showcased Jewish LGBTQ+ history from the 1950s to today.

This multi-media, intergenerational storytelling project explored the racial heritage of Bristol and South Gloucestershire.

Punk Snow researched unpublished diaries and collected memories of Liverpool's 1970s punk era to create a 15-minute documentary.

Local groups from across Warwickshire explored the history of health and medicine, in this community-led project.

The project built on the interest generated through the opening of a new chocolate attraction in York, and a successful pilot project that used postcards to collect memories from those who benefited from the Rowntree legacy.