Exciting announcement! Jess, our Coordinator in Honiton, and several of our dedicated volunteers, were interviewed this week by BBC Radio Devon. Find out more about the diverse stories they’ve been researching and uncovering in Honiton as well as their own...
Telling Our Stories, Finding Our Roots is featured in July’s Devon Life magazine – a four page article. Thank you to our fantastic team of coordinators and volunteers for all of your research and hard work in uncovering new stories which reveal...
Media Release 20th June 2024: Honouring the courage, strength and determination of refugees on World Refugee Day Today is World Refugee Day, an international day organised every year by the United Nations, that aims to honour and celebrate refugees from around the...
As the Telling Our Stories project crosses its halfway point, volunteers in Ilfracombe are eagerly digging up a range of intriguing stories revealing layers of the town’s diverse history. As well as seeking fresh evidence about the long-mused-upon fate of HMS...
TELLING OUR STORIES’ volunteers partnered with HONITON LIBRARY on Cultural Diversity Day this week to celebrate the richness of the world’s cultures and the power of inter-cultural dialogue by sharing a selection of adult and children’s books. As...
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,...
Further developing their skills and confidence, our volunteers took part in Oral History Training this week, led by our Honiton Coordinator, JessHuffman. With microphones in hand, they experimented with recording equipment, tried out interviewing techniques and learnt...
29th February 2024 The two main reasons for volunteers taking part in Telling Our Stories, Finding Our Roots, Devon’s multicultural history project, are ‘gaining new skills’ and ‘trying something new’ showing that age is definitely no barrier to wanting to expand...
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