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Heritage Lottery Fund supports Plymouth's Tall Ship to make 'Sound Sense' 18/10/2012 The Sound Sense programme; run in partnership with the National Marine Aquarium , will deliver a series of two day workshops over the next 12 months. It is designed to be …

Wiltshire council secures Heritage Lottery Fund Support 22/10/2012 Wiltshire Council has recently been awarded £30,100 from the Heritage Lottery Fund for the Virtual Landscapes project which will take place in four locations in Wiltshire. Led by young …

Cornish History Group awarded £9,400 by Heritage Lottery Fund 22/10/2012 Linkinhorne History and Community Archive will use the funding to research fully the history of the area and to locate the precise position of the manor house. Rillaton Manor is …

King Edward Mine secures £35,700 HLF grant 15/10/2012 The grant has been match-funded with £10,000 from Cornwall Council and £2,477 from the Rural Development Programme for England. King Edward Mine (KEM) is the oldest complete mine site left in Cornwall …

Celebrating the Great Dixter legacy 03/09/2012 One hundred years ago Nathaniel and Daisy Lloyd and their family moved into Great Dixter in Northiam, East Sussex. Their son, Christopher Lloyd, was to become one of the 20th century’s most inspiring and …

Langlands Moss Beastie Hunt a hit for families 12/08/2012 The event which took place on Sunday 29 July 2012 was well attended, with lots of families bringing their children along to see what they could see on the lowland raised peat bog site. To kick …

Ugandan Asian exiles tell their story 28/08/2012 The expulsion of thousands of Asians from Uganda by dictator Idi Amin will be recalled 40 years after the event by community members living in London. A year-long project, run by the Haringey-based Council …

York Oral History Society wins Heritage Lottery Fund support 24/08/2012 In the 1970s, acclaimed York historian Dr Alf Peacock recorded interviews with 231 people who experienced the First World War. The diverse recordings are with veterans of all ranks …

Memories of south Wales’ Jewish communities shared at Cardiff exhibition 07/09/2012 The exhibition, which comes as a result of a three year project, shares the lives and stories of 60 members of the Cardiff Reform community and reflects on how their …

Balsall Heath launches diamond jubilee 12/09/2012 The Balsall Heath Local History Society will be getting local people to come up with ideas about which objects will best tell the story of this inner city area. Balsall Heath has a very diverse population …