Hello superstar story-finders. Are you ready to be an explorer of family history, a discoverer of untold tales? Here’s our next Family Challenge. It's time to get curious – what have you always wanted to know about your family member(s), but never had the time to ask?...
Family Photo Challenge
Hello superstar story-finders. Are you ready to be an explorer of family history, a discoverer of untold tales? Here's the first of our Family Challenges. Family Photo Challenge Dig out some old photos from when your Mum / Dad / Aunty / Grandparents first moved to...
Reach Out, Reach In Challenge
We find ourselves in the midst of a new, scary and utterly unprecedented time. Confined to our own four walls, we are all required, for our collective wellbeing and safety, to ‘socially distance’ ourselves from friends, neighbours, colleagues, fellow citizens – even...
Research Diary: Discovering European Stories
Tiverton Community Heritage Coordinator Lizzie Mee outlines some of the European connections emerging in Tiverton’s history… As we’ve been delving deeper into the archives and history books, we’ve discovered that a big part of Tiverton’s history is that of the...
Event diary: Song out of Darkness Book Launch
Okehampton Community Heritage Coordinator Laurel Miller reports on a fascinating book launch... Okehampton volunteers greatly enjoyed hearing readings from the memoir of local author Karen Eugenia Boreham at her book launch this week. Karen has lived on a Dartmoor...
Project diary: Exhibition Planning in Tiverton
Tiverton Community Heritage Coordinator Lizzie Mee writes about the thinking involved in planning an exhibition… It’s been a busy start to the year in Tiverton! We’ve begun preparations for recording our oral histories. Meanwhile, the volunteers and I are also busy...
Oral History Training Day
Community Heritage Coordinator Laurel Miller reports on our recent Oral History training day... Hearing a person telling their own story in their own voice is a very powerful way of engaging people with history. You can hear the emotions behind the account and feel a...
Sketchbook: Jane Daniel
This week's blog provides a special peek inside the creative mind of volunteer Jane Daniel... Jane lives in Bideford. She regularly produces artwork and poetry, including work expressing her feelings about growing up as a person of mixed heritage in Devon. Jane has...
Research Diary: A Long History of Diversity in Devon
Community Heritage Coordinator Lizzie writes about the Tiverton team's early research discoveries. Research in Tiverton has been underway for quite a while and our group of volunteers have been busy exploring a range of different stories. Most early research projects...
Research Diary: First World War Belgian Refugees in Devon
Community Heritage Coordinator Laurel writes about new research discoveries… I am writing this blog on 11th November, Remembrance Day. A time to remember the service and sacrifice of the men and women who fought in conflicts across the years. 100 years since that...
Research Diary: WW2 Polish Naval base in Okehampton
Community Heritage Coordinator Laurel writes about new research discoveries... The Okehampton branch of the project is fortunate to have volunteers involved from the local Polish community: people who have come to live in the UK in the last 20 years. With their help,...
Volunteer Diary: Sunrise at 10.30 AM
Bideford volunteer Stephen writes about a volunteer team visit to North Devon Sunrise. Last Tuesday, the Bideford group of the TOSFOR project visited North Devon Sunrise (open Monday – Thursday) in Barnstaple, to meet with Ana in her final week as Community...