"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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Setting the Pace in Telford and Wrekin
Interviews with young sports people and sports champions in by Telford and Wrekin Libraries -
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… -
Sporting activities in Thurrock
This is a collection of individual items relating to sporting activities in Thurrock. The items were collected by… -
Sporting Heroes
Run by the West Yorkshire Archive Service and Heritage Lottery Funded, Sporting Heroes is an oral history project, which… -
Hadleigh: Remembering and Change
The Essex Record Office worked with the HLF-funded Hadleigh Community Archive to collect oral histories from Hadleigh…
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