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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We Will Remember Them |
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Seaboard Memorial Hall |
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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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Women of Sheppey in WW1 |
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Sheppey Promenade |
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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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WW1 Heritage Map of the Glasgow Necropolis |
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The Friends of Glasgow Necropolis |
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https://www.glasgownecropolis.org/ |
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Heritage offers a number of great opportunities to engage with, and hopefully help, the people in our communities. This joint project, with The Friends of Glasgow Necropolis and Archaeology Scotland, aims to record and to teach local people about a neglected aspect of the Necropolis's wartime past. Key aims of the project are Engage with local young school groups (under 16), elderly groups and local residents who have little access to heritage projects and WWI sites. Teach key transferable... |
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Region:- Scotland; County:- Lanarkshire; Administrative Area:- Glasgow; Place:- Glasgow |
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