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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Chedworth Remembers The Great War |
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Chedworth Remembers The Great War |
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https://chedworth.org.uk/ |
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The aims of the Chedworth Remembers project are to research and record the stories of the 142 men of our village who served in the Great War together with the stories of the families whom they left at home. The project also seeks to inform and educate on our heritage as widely as possible, to refurbish an important memorial and to create new memorials to the fallen. In outline: To record those stories in an e-book form to be made freely available on the web and in CD format To lodge detailed... |
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Region:- South West England; County:- Gloucestershire; Administrative Area:- The Cotswolds; Place:- Chedworth |
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Commemoration of First Airman VC (1915) and of 133 Spratton Men Who Went to WW1 |
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Spratton Local History Society |
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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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Conflict and Community: Northamptons response to The First World War |
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Northampton Museum and Art Gallery |
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https://www.flickr.com/people/conflict_and_community |
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Working in partnership NMAG and RD will investigate and explore the history and heritage of Northampton Borough during WWI. This will include researching physical collections (objects and archive), cultural heritage (plays, poetry, film, photography) and family oral history. We will look at transition points where the experiences of those on the home front and those fighting meet. Using museum collections and by collecting family stories from local communities we will create new interpretation... |
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Region:- East Midlands; County:- Northamptonshire; Administrative Area:- Northampton; Place:- Northampton South |
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