Community Heritage Coordinator Laurel Miller reports on our recent Oral History training day… Hearing a person telling their own story in their own voice is a very powerful way of engaging people with history. You can hear the emotions behind the account and...
This week’s blog provides a special peek inside the creative mind of volunteer Jane Daniel… Jane lives in Bideford. She regularly produces artwork and poetry, including work expressing her feelings about growing up as a person of mixed heritage in Devon....
Community Heritage Coordinator Lizzie writes about the Tiverton team’s early research discoveries. Research in Tiverton has been underway for quite a while and our group of volunteers have been busy exploring a range of different stories. Most early research...
Community Heritage Coordinator Laurel writes about new research discoveries… I am writing this blog on 11th November, Remembrance Day. A time to remember the service and sacrifice of the men and women who fought in conflicts across the years. 100 years since that...
Community Heritage Coordinator Laurel writes about new research discoveries… The Okehampton branch of the project is fortunate to have volunteers involved from the local Polish community: people who have come to live in the UK in the last 20 years. With their...
Bideford volunteer Stephen writes about a volunteer team visit to North Devon Sunrise. Last Tuesday, the Bideford group of the TOSFOR project visited North Devon Sunrise (open Monday – Thursday) in Barnstaple, to meet with Ana in her final week as Community...
Community Heritage Coordinator Rose writes about our training day at the Devon Heritage Centre… Last Monday, volunteers from the three project towns spent the day learning about archival and digital research techniques at the Devon Heritage Centre, part of the...
Next up in our ‘Introducing…’ series is Rose Young-French. Rose is the Community Heritage Coordinator for Bideford. Everyone loves a story! I have always loved hearing stories, from the Jamaican folklore stories my Dad told me at bedtime to the...
Next up in our ‘Introducing…’ series is Lizzie Mee. Lizzie is the Community Heritage Coordinator for Tiverton. Hello, my name is Lizzie Mee and I’m the Community Heritage Co-ordinator for Tiverton. I have a long history with heritage and love finding...
First up in our ‘Introducing…’ series: Laurel Miller, Okehampton Community Heritage Coordinator Hi, I’m Laurel and I am the Community Heritage Coordinator for Okehampton. I really enjoy meeting people and finding out about local history, so the...
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