"A chance to actually be part of history. Instead of seeing it happen on TV it's a chance to actually say, 'I was there'"
Robert Tuart Evans
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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Big Blue Fence
Immediate Theatre’s Big Blue Fence project ran from 2008-2010 and documented the heritage of the last 60 years for and… -
Easton Olympians
A creative writing project in Easton, an inner city part of Bristol. Local people tell their own stories in response to… -
Setting the Pace in Telford and Wrekin
Interviews with young sports people and sports champions in by Telford and Wrekin Libraries -
Olympic and Paralympic future champions at Loughborough University
The is a digital video archive of interviews with Loughborough elite Olympic and Paralympic students, which focus on two… -
Futures: the Spirit of Sport
East Sussex Record Office worked with Chailey Futures, the residential service for young adults with complex physical… -
Hopes for 2012 by disabled young people in North Yorkshire
Video, audio and photo record of young people's hopes for run-up to 2012, by young disabled people, responding to…
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