Tag: community history
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Five Communities: Final Furlong
Well here we are on the last lap and I’m not entirely sure where the last two years have gone to. Certainly I’m delighted by what whats been achieved. Thousands of documents have been catalogued and images produced that are currently being transferred in quantity to the Peoples Collection Wales enabling community history groups to…
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Five Communities: Reflections
It doesn’t seem nearly two years since this project started but when I look back I have learned so much. I started this project as an interested amateur who had a thirst for knowledge and some ability to archive but knew that I needed to look closely at how other people archived! I was so…
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Historic Hook
One community history group has been very productive during the COVID-19 pandemic, producing no fewer than 19 articles on a range of locally relevant topics… Hook History Society (see their Echoes page here: echoeswales.cymru/communities/hook/) have used the time to create a series of relevant articles on a wide range of historical topics, including agriculture and…