The Next Stage… It’s been several weeks of digging into the local history of everything from shipwrecks to gravesites, shopkeepers to witches, hovels to hotels, steadily uncovering an increasing number of interesting and interweaving accounts. Our forays into...
Perhaps you have a family connection? Or maybe you’re a local history enthusiast eager to find out about the Polish soldiers who stayed at the Honiton camp? If so, we’d love your help to tell their stories! The Polish Resettlement Corps was an organisation...
At our 3 April Meeting at the Thelma Hulbert Gallery, our Honiton team was delighted to welcome four new volunteers to Telling Our Stories, Finding Our Roots, bringing a broad-reaching set of skills and interests to the project – including languages, archeology,...
Our growing team of Honiton volunteers met last week to share emerging stories. In a precarious world there is a sense that the project offers some peace and contentment. That in some small way it helps to make a better world; something that sounds ambitious but is...
As the wheels of recruitment turn and ‘Telling Our Stories, Finding Our Roots’ – Devon’s multicultural history project – really begins to gain steam, some fantastic opportunities have started to unfold. Read the latest blog from Abi Obene – Project Coordinator...
Happy New Year! Six months in… look what we’ve achieved! Now six months into the project we start 2024 having established a strong and experienced team of project partners, leaders, advisors, coordinators and volunteers from across Devon. We’ve had some great...
By Abi Obene, Telling Our Stories, Finding Our Roots Coordinator, Ilfracombe In the last couple of weeks both Ilfracombe and Honiton have had their launch events for the Telling Our Stories, Finding Our Roots project run by education charity Devon Development...
Want to become a storyteller for a more inclusive society? Come to our Honiton launch event If you love storytelling or are from a diverse ethnic background and would like to share your story to create a more inclusive society then be at The Beehive, Dowell Street,...
What Multicultural History? by Jess Huffman, Project Coordinator (Honiton), Telling Our Stories, Finding Our Roots I really enjoy talking to people about the Telling Our Stories, Finding Our Roots Project. Discussing project opportunities to explore diverse and...
Media Release 28th September 2023 Be part of the story for a more inclusive society – a call for volunteers in Honiton and Ilfracombe for exciting new multicultural...
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