"It would be better if we could have some events up north"
Thomas Fowler
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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Believe it Achieve it!
Believe it Achieve It’ was a project delivered in the London borough of Brent which recorded people’s… -
Big Blue Fence
Immediate Theatre’s Big Blue Fence project ran from 2008-2010 and documented the heritage of the last 60 years for and… -
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… -
Easton Olympians
A creative writing project in Easton, an inner city part of Bristol. Local people tell their own stories in response to… -
Talking Sport
A collection of video and audio of people from Barton upon Humber and the surrounding area remembering their… -
Imagine sport
The project has been delivered by Carl Jaycock on behalf of Telford & Wrekin Council, and builds on the previous…
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