"I hope they don't pull all the sports arenas down after 'cos it will be good to use them"
Jake Spoke
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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Westminster City Archives: People's Record project
Westminster City Archives is proud to participate in the People’s Record Project in order to celebrate the… -
Cambridgeshire People's Record
This project allowed members of the community to participate in a range of experiences at each family day that complied… -
What it means to be a Loughborough University student volunteer for the 2012 London Olympics
"Volunteering will play a very important part of the London 2012 Olympic Games: London 2012 is relying on brilliant… -
Talking Sport
A collection of video and audio of people from Barton upon Humber and the surrounding area remembering their… -
Leyton High Road
Vestry House Museum looks to record the changes brought to Waltham Forest as a result of the Olympic and Paralympic… -
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…
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