"When I can't do something I will remember this and think if I try harder and don't give up I can do it"
Yasmine
What did the Olympic and Paralympic Games mean to you?
The 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games were a once in a lifetime event. To record the impact of the Games, from 2010-2012 museums, libraries and archives around the UK supported community groups to collect and create material related to the Games, past and present. This website showcases the results.
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Featured projects
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Imagine sport
The project has been delivered by Carl Jaycock on behalf of Telford & Wrekin Council, and builds on the previous… -
Redbridge and the London 2012 Games
Redbridge Museum, based in Ilford, have made a series of five short films which explore the impact of the London 2012… -
Westminster City Archives: People's Record project
Westminster City Archives is proud to participate in the People’s Record Project in order to celebrate the… -
Talking Sport
A collection of video and audio of people from Barton upon Humber and the surrounding area remembering their… -
Rugby League Oral Histories
The oral history recordings, photographs and other records which comprise this collection were created at a Rugby League… -
What it means to be a Loughborough University student volunteer for the 2012 London Olympics
"Volunteering will play a very important part of the London 2012 Olympic Games: London 2012 is relying on brilliant…
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