"It would be better if we could have some events up north"
Thomas Fowler
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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Rugby League Oral Histories
The oral history recordings, photographs and other records which comprise this collection were created at a Rugby League… -
Our Sporting Life
In Greater Manchester five museums worked in partnership with young people to produce new exhibitions on the theme of… -
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… -
Believe it Achieve it!
Believe it Achieve It’ was a project delivered in the London borough of Brent which recorded people’s… -
Futures: the Spirit of Sport
East Sussex Record Office worked with Chailey Futures, the residential service for young adults with complex physical… -
Leyton High Road
Vestry House Museum looks to record the changes brought to Waltham Forest as a result of the Olympic and Paralympic…
