"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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Rugby League Oral Histories
The oral history recordings, photographs and other records which comprise this collection were created at a Rugby League… -
Redbridge and the London 2012 Games
Redbridge Museum, based in Ilford, have made a series of five short films which explore the impact of the London 2012… -
Paralympic Perceptions
This project explores perceptions of the impact and value of the Paralympic Games.
Students at Loughborough University… -
Easton Olympians
A creative writing project in Easton, an inner city part of Bristol. Local people tell their own stories in response to… -
Hadleigh: Remembering and Change
The Essex Record Office worked with the HLF-funded Hadleigh Community Archive to collect oral histories from Hadleigh… -
Feeling Well - Olympic week
Suffolk Libraries have developed The Feeling Well project (a year of sport and wellbeing promotion), working with a…
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