"Wondering how so many people will fit on the tube"
K Stone
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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Paralympic Perceptions
This project explores perceptions of the impact and value of the Paralympic Games.
Students at Loughborough University… -
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… -
Futures: the Spirit of Sport
East Sussex Record Office worked with Chailey Futures, the residential service for young adults with complex physical… -
Believe it Achieve it!
Believe it Achieve It’ was a project delivered in the London borough of Brent which recorded people’s… -
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… -
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…
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