Cultures and memories

The Bona Eek project focused on rediscovering and documenting the largely lost language of Polari, examining its origins and its influence in contemporary language and life in LGBT+ communities and beyond.

This project provided opportunities for people to learn and engage with the story of Llanyrafon Manor and the surrounding area.

This community-guided research project, Welling Will Remember Them, told the stories of people from Welling and East Wickham in South East London who fought in the First World War.

Volunteers investigated the impact of the First World War on the people of Leicester and shared their research through exhibitions, school workshops and online.

Volunteers researched the history of The Croft in Nottingham, a non-institutional home for lone mothers during the 1960s and 1970s.

This project focused on actively engaging local community groups and schools in Portsmouth City Council’s internationally important Conan Doyle Collection.

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

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.

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

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.