East Midlands

Young people learning about traditional building methods
Green Reflections participants learn traditional craft skills

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Green Reflections

Young people from Lincolnshire explored their area's rich built heritage and gained an insight into traditional building skills.

A participant exploring a stand at one of the workshops

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Leicester's role in World War 1

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

People visiting a Children of the Croft pop-up exhibition

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Children of The Croft

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

Peregrine Falcon on Derby Cathedral
Peregrine Falcon on Derby Cathedral

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Peregrines, people and places

A pair of peregrine falcons inspired a community project managed by Derbyshire Wildlife Trust.

Archive image of a male service personnel
Archive image from the Hadhari Oral History Project

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Hadhari Oral History Project

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

Volunteers at the Ice Age hunting site Farndon Fields

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Farndon Fields Palaeolithic Project

FARI archaeology, a constituted community group, applied for this grant to investigate, record, and protect an internationally important Ice Age hunting site.

People carrying out an archaeological excavation
Participants at the Fin Cop dig site

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Fin Cop - solving more mysteries

Longstone Local History Group carried out further archaeological work on an Iron Age Hill Fort near Bakewell, covering the full extent of Fin Cop.

Recording LGBT memories

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Leicester LGBT Heritage Project

This three-year project recorded the oral histories of Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland's LGBTQ+ communities, from before partial decriminalisation in 1967 to the present day.