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Across the Minch: Traditional Boatbuilding in Uist & Wester Ross A boat undergoing repair The Grimsay Boatshed and Am Bàta received a Skills for the Future grant to provide traditional boatbuilding workshops to local schools. The project involved young …

The Extraordinary and the Everyday: A year in the life of a rural community 1914-15 Project data Programme First World War: Then and Now Date awarded 28/04/2014 Location Bishop's Itchington, Fenny Compton & Napton Local Authority Stratford-on-Avon …

Improving Futures: Volunteering for Wellbeing IWM North volunteer group Jason Lawton / IWM North "Volunteering for Wellbeing could have been made for me… People over 50, long-term out of work and in need of a confidence boost and tools [were helped] to …

The Good Humour Club: Laughter and Leisure in Eighteenth-Century York Performance from the Good Humour Club project “The web app shows that you can see the remains of the past in the most unlikely circumstances but you need to train your eye to look and …

Welling will remember them: uncovering local soldiers who died in the First World War 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 …

Rock Band: the UK's geological heritage Children look at a museum display of geological collections "We lifted the lid very carefully and I stood back. In every case the response was a gasp or a wow!" Mary Cook, Volunteer Education Team Member at the Vale …

Badges of Honour: How Women Changed the World A participant tries on 30 campaigning badges The Glasgow Women’s Library explored the stories behind the badges worn by women involved in activism. Campaigning women have worn badges for decades - to deliver …

Childhood at Osborne Families are now able to step back into the world of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert’s children at Osborne on the Isle of Wight. Restoration of the Swiss Cottage, a playhouse built for the nine royal siblings, accompanied new …

1948 Olympic Games, then and now. 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. Social snapshots of young people in 1948 and 2012 were collected, and their stories …

Bona Eek - The Polari Project 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. Polari is a …