Get your walking boots on to travel through history…
Join the Wiltshire Council Archaeologists for two free guided archaeology walks. This year we are celebrating the annual Festival of British Archaeology by organising walks in two archaeologically rich and exciting locations.
In the morning of Saturday 11th July Rachel Foster, Assistant County Archaeologist will be leading a guided archaeological walk up to the fabulous Iron Age hillfort at Oldbury near Cherhill and across the Cherhill Downs. You get a chance to see the multiple and well preserved ramparts, the location of the Iron Age settlement, the Cherhill White Horse and Lansdowne Monument. From the top of the hill you will experience the fantastic panoramic landscape views and Rachel will point out and discuss key archaeological features such as Roman roads, the Wansdyke and Silbury Hill.
Community Archives and Oral History
I have just started a year traineeship called 'Transforming Archives' with the National Archives and have been based here at the Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre for just over two months. I am working on the HLF funded Lacock Unlocked project focusing on community engagement and collections development. My task will be creating a community archive and producing oral history interviews for the village of Lacock which is what I want to talk about today and about how you could be a part of it.
So, what are community archives?
Community Archives are becoming an ever more prominent feature of the archive field. They are a collection of materials that tell the story of a local community, organization or group. These can include documents, images, diaries, etc. which form a vital part of the community's memories. They also provide an alternative method to the traditional archive system and provide a format for local memories to be recorded by the communities themselves - essentially a living archive! Our hope is to create an engaging and sustainable archive for Lacock and the surrounding areas. We are creating our own website (picture below) where the community history of Lacock can be uploaded to, viewed and commented on. We are hoping that the community will engage with this idea and help create, and eventually run the archive. If you have any memories or photos relating to Lacock then please do get in contact!
Lacock Unlocked Website
Wiltshire at War: Community Stories
Our Heritage Lottery Funded project to uncover and share stories of the First World War Home Front in Wiltshire http://wiltshireatwar.org.uk/ is now moving into its second [...]
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