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This is Our History

Organisation: West Yorkshire Archive Service

Grant Award: Your Heritage (£49,900)

This project identified ways of developing & maintaining relationships between the West Yorkshire Archive Service & communities in areas of social exclusion in Bradford. Groups produced their own digital archives, creating a history for themselves and Bradford.

Outcomes

Over 12 groups are already involved and this number is increasing, including a wide and diverse section of the communties in Bradford. There is increased awareness of the services provided and visits to the archives building. The final outcome of the project will be to launch the website and CD-ROMs.

A surveyor at work on Horseshoe Island, Antarctic, 1956. Courtesy of the British Antarctic Survey.

Human and canine members of Hull City Engineer's Department c.1920 and the results of their labours. Courtesy of Hull City Archives.