"Being party to a global event on our doorstep will last in memory forever"
Kevin Goodwin
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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Rugby League Oral Histories
The oral history recordings, photographs and other records which comprise this collection were created at a Rugby League… -
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… -
Hadleigh: Remembering and Change
The Essex Record Office worked with the HLF-funded Hadleigh Community Archive to collect oral histories from Hadleigh… -
Futures: the Spirit of Sport
East Sussex Record Office worked with Chailey Futures, the residential service for young adults with complex physical… -
Sporting Heroes
Run by the West Yorkshire Archive Service and Heritage Lottery Funded, Sporting Heroes is an oral history project, which… -
Leyton High Road
Vestry House Museum looks to record the changes brought to Waltham Forest as a result of the Olympic and Paralympic…
