The WW1 Community Platform is a digital repository for community-created and collected data, research, artefacts and e-resources, making the content available for future generations and research ventures. The contributors featured on these pages received funding from the National Lottery Heritage Fund to research the legacies of the First World War, locally and nationally, across the United Kingdom.
Use the search options below to explore these projects in greater detail and the valued contributions they have made to public understandings of the Great War. |
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Salford Museum and Art Gallery |
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Lark Hill Place 1918 |
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https://www.salfordcommunityleisure.co.uk/culture |
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Our project will move the timeframe of Lark Hill Place, Salford Museum and Art Gallery's Victorian street, forward from 1897 to 1918 for a one-year period of redisplay during 2018 to commemorate the centenary of the final year of World War One as the climax of our Salford Remembers programme. The redisplay will be complemented by a programme of engagement activity, including a new promenade theatre production with accompanying workshops and training sessions, a new soundscape and sound... |
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Region:- North West England; County:- Greater Manchester; Administrative Area:- Swinton; Place:- Salford |
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Seaboard Memorial Hall |
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We Will Remember Them |
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http://www.seaboardhistory.com/seaboard-villages/we-will-remember-them-ww1/ |
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The project is aimed at finding, remembering and sharing our (the Seaboard) connection to the First World War. People will have free access to the photographs, stories and information collected as they will be posted to our www.seaboardhistory.com website and also digitally archived for safe keeping and future use. We recently completed a very successful Social History Project funded by HLF, and during the research there were many stories behind soldiers, sailors, airmen and nurses which were... |
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Region:- Scotland; County:- Highland; Administrative Area:- Highland; Place:- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross |
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Sheppey Promenade |
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Women of Sheppey in WW1 |
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http://www.sheppeypromenade.co.uk/ |
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Sheppey was a strategic location for all the Services in WW1 with a naval dockyard, aerodrome and air craft factories and army bases During WW1 The Isle of Sheppey was an important centre for all the Services. There were Army Regiments stationed, Sheerness Royal Naval Dockyard was vital and the Eastchurch Airfield saw the beginnings of aeroplanes used in warfare. We will explore how Women fitted into the whole picture. Sheppey Promenade is based in a small wooden cottage right in the centre of... |
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Region:- South East England; County:- Kent; Administrative Area:- Swale; Place:- Isle of Sheppey |
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Shipwrecks of the River Humber Area |
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Grimsby's Lost Ships of WW1 |
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http://shipwrecksoftheriverhumber.co.uk/ |
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Grimsbys Fishing Fleet lost over 300 ships during WW1, we will show what these ships did during the First World War. We want to engage volunteers for office based research, and diving research. We will record these lost shipwrecks for everyone and educate the people of Grimsby about their heritage and the role of their ancestors on Grimsbys fishing boats in the first World War. We will leave a full account of their exploits for future generations of Grimsby people. All our volunteers will be... |
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Region:- Yorkshire and the Humber; County:- North East Lincolnshire; Administrative Area:- Grimsby; Place:- Grimsby |
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Spratton Local History Society |
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Commemoration of First Airman VC (1915) and of 133 Spratton Men Who Went to WW1 |
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http://www.sprattonhistory.org/ |
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The project is a centenary commemoration of Spratton resident William Rhodes-Moorhouse, RFC, who was ordered on 26 April 1915 to fly to Courtrai to bomb the railway station. Afterwards, terribly wounded and with his aircraft badly damaged, he managed to return to report the success of his mission, but died next day. He was later awarded the Victoria Cross, the first airman ever so honoured. The project will also commemorate the lives of 133 Spratton men, 19 of whom were killed, who went to the... |
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Region:- East Midlands; County:- Northamptonshire; Administrative Area:- Daventry District; Place:- Spratton |
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St Machar Academy |
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The legacy of the Great War in Aberdeen |
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https://aberdeenandthegreatwar.wordpress.com/ |
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A program of events between August and February which would involve staff, pupils and the local community in developing a greater understanding of the impact of the Great War on the people of Aberdeen. Starting in August, we plan to obtain 1,000 small memorial crosses from Lady Haig Factory. These crosses will be inscribed with names of Gordon Highlanders killed in Flanders that we have found and researched. The plan is to arrange the crosses in a display either indoors or outdoors so that they... |
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Region:- Scotland; County:- Aberdeen City; Administrative Area:- Aberdeen City; Place:- Aberdeen |
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