by Wendy Milne | 10th January, 2025 | Blog, Honiton News, Ilfracombe News
As this round of the multicultural history project comes to an end later this month all of the resources created over the past 18 months will come live onto our website. You can see the diverse stories of the two focus towns of Ilfracombe...
by Wendy Milne | 1st August, 2024 | Blog
Calling All Creatives! **** STILL TIME TO GET INVOLVED ****** Devon’s multicultural heritage project Telling Our Stories, Finding Our Roots is calling all creatives for its two latest initiatives. With the help of a team of enthusiastic volunteers led by project...
by Wendy Milne | 12th June, 2024 | Blog, Honiton News
Celebrating Cultural Diversity It was great to discover that May now has a whole day dedicated to celebrating cultural diversity, and to honour it we have been working with Honiton Library to create a display of inspiring books that tell the story of England’s...
by Wendy Milne | 2nd May, 2024 | Blog, Honiton News, Ilfracombe News
The Next Stage… It’s been several weeks of digging into the local history of everything from shipwrecks to gravesites, shopkeepers to witches, hovels to hotels, steadily uncovering an increasing number of interesting and interweaving accounts. Our forays into...
by Wendy Milne | 27th March, 2024 | Blog
Why Tell stories? As Jean Paul Sartre the 20th Century French Philosopher put it, ‘All human beings are tellers of stories. We tell stories to survive; to make sense of the terrifying confusion that is our existence.’ Storytelling is a fundamental part of being...
by Wendy Milne | 9th February, 2024 | Blog, Honiton News, Ilfracombe News
As the wheels of recruitment turn and ‘Telling Our Stories, Finding Our Roots’ – Devon’s multicultural history project – really begins to gain steam, some fantastic opportunities have started to unfold. Read the latest blog from Abi Obene – Project Coordinator...
by Wendy Milne | 10th January, 2024 | Blog, Honiton News
Happy New Year! Six months in… look what we’ve achieved! Now six months into the project we start 2024 having established a strong and experienced team of project partners, leaders, advisors, coordinators and volunteers from across Devon. We’ve had some great...
by Wendy Milne | 30th December, 2023 | Blog, Honiton News, Ilfracombe News
By Abi Obene, Telling Our Stories, Finding Our Roots Coordinator, Ilfracombe In the last couple of weeks both Ilfracombe and Honiton have had their launch events for the Telling Our Stories, Finding Our Roots project run by education charity Devon Development...
by Wendy Milne | 30th November, 2023 | Blog, Ilfracombe News
Down the Rabbit Hole Events are being organised, volunteers are signing up and the wheels are starting to turn! Not only are we setting up the logistical side of the project for the year to come – organising launch events, setting up archival and interview...
by Wendy Milne | 11th November, 2023 | Blog, Honiton News
What Multicultural History? by Jess Huffman, Project Coordinator (Honiton), Telling Our Stories, Finding Our Roots I really enjoy talking to people about the Telling Our Stories, Finding Our Roots Project. Discussing project opportunities to explore diverse and...
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