"Wondering how so many people will fit on the tube"
K Stone
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.
Find out more about the People's Record
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… -
Paralympic Perceptions
This project explores perceptions of the impact and value of the Paralympic Games.
Students at Loughborough University… -
Talking Sport
A collection of video and audio of people from Barton upon Humber and the surrounding area remembering their… -
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… -
Sporting Heroes
Run by the West Yorkshire Archive Service and Heritage Lottery Funded, Sporting Heroes is an oral history project, which… -
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…
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