Museums, libraries and archives

Young people worked in teams to create new interpretation, helping shape the way visitors engage with the Richmond Borough Art Collection in the future.

Heaton Avenues in Wartime uncovered 10 hidden stories of local residents during the First World War.

‘April Ashley: Portrait of a Lady’ shared the hidden history of the trans community – those whose gender identity and/or expression differs from the sex they were assigned at birth – with 1.2million visitors.

The University of Sussex’s Mass Education project inspired a range of people from local schools and communities to engage with a unique social history resource.

The International Anthony Burgess Foundation (IABF) celebrated the life and work of Anthony Burgess, the novelist, poet, playwright, critic and composer born in Manchester in 1917.

Northern Cultural Projects CIC spent a year investigating and documenting the Iranian Heritage of the North East.

A rich social archive was preserved for future generations thanks to a community history project across the Borough of Sandwell, West Midlands.

The 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo gave the Royal Green Jackets (Rifles) Museum the opportunity to rejuvenate their collection.

A group of local young Muslims explored how their heritage is archived in two major city museums, in a project run by Young Muslim Aberdeen.

Volunteers from the Friends of Gloucestershire Archives captured, shared and celebrated the long history of Gloucester Rugby Football Club.

This project focused on increasing access to First World War archival material held in The British Postal Museum and Archive.

A local museum and archive worked together to reach wider audiences by developing an exhibition exploring the transatlantic slave trade through the papers of a Victorian cotton spinner.