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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Back to the Front |
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Abbots Langley's Great War |
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The Parish of Abbots Langley in Hertfordshire, has over 20,000 residents living in four villages, Langleybury, Leavesden, Bedmond and Abbots Langley. The Back to the Front organisation has researched the lives of the men and women from two of the villages (Abbots Langley and Bedmond) during the period of the Great War. The organisation is planning a new project for 2018-19 with the objectives of completing the heritage research and sharing the outcomes with the communities within the Parish,... |
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Region:- North East England; County:- Hertfordshire; Administrative Area:- Three Rivers; Place:- Watford |
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Bath and North East Somerset Council |
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A Century's Memories |
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https://www.bathnes.gov.uk/services/tourism-and-heritage/local-history/world-war-one-centenary/centurys-memories |
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We want to collect and share stories of lives from the Bath and North East Somerset area through an oral history and reminiscence project. Many older people have family stories of parents or grandparents and their roles in WW1. Once this generation of older people passes on, we will lose the 'first-hand' thread of memory: the WW1 Centenary is an opportunity to record stories for the future. We will train and support small groups of young people (aged appx 15-21) to interview and digitally record... |
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Region:- South West England; County:- Somerset; Administrative Area:- Bath and North East Somerset; Place:- Bath |
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Big Up Films |
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Summerstown 182 |
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http://www.summerstown182.co.uk/ |
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The Summerstown182 project will enable the local community to learn the rich history and heritage of the area through stories relating to the 182 First World War soldiers and sailors whose names are on the St. Marys Church war memorial in Summerstown, south west London. Each of the 182 has a story to tell about life in England during the First World War period. School children, local residents, people whose family members served in the First World War, relatives of the 182 and the wider... |
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Region:- Greater London; County:- Greater London; Administrative Area:- Summerstown; Place:- Merton Wandsworth |
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Birmingham City University |
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Generations of Commemoration: Re-Presenting the Legacy of the Great War |
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http://bcmcr.org/chetoolkit/ |
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Generations of Commemoration: Re-Presenting the Legacy of the Great War was funded through the Voices of War and Peace AHRC First World War Engagement Centre. It enabled the Birmingham-based community arts organisation Secret City Arts (SCA) to develop their work in helping schoolchildren to understand this long-ago conflict in places where spaces and peoples had undergone considerable transformations in the last hundred years. These transformations posed a challenge for assumptions about the... |
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Region:- West Midlands; County:- Warwickshire; Administrative Area:- Worcestershire; Place:- Birmingham |
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Brierfield Action in the Community |
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Our World War One |
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Working with young people in Brierfield and Nelson to research their families connections to WW1 particularly within the Asian heritage community and also the community connections to WW1. The Asian heritage young people do not have any concept of the sacrifice and bravery their ancestors contributed to WW1 and have little respect for the Cenotaphs and the importance of remembering them. This is also true of the indigenous community. They do not understand the historical significance and how... |
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Region:- North West England; County:- Lancashire; Administrative Area:- Pendle; Place:- Brierfield |
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Broughton Primary School |
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Broughton Village - The Men who fought in WW1 |
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There are twenty two (22) names on the WW1 memorial in the grounds of Christ Church, Great Broughton. The aim of the project is to write a book (150-180 pages) profiling these men. The book will also tell of village life 1914 - 1918 - how the people supported the war effort - how did the war effect everyday life - how did the school - churches and other institutions adopted to war conditions e.g. food shortages. Letters sent home by soldiers at the front will be included. How the women of the... |
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Region:- North West England; County:- Cumbria; Administrative Area:- Allerdale; Place:- Broughton |
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