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This project sought to give historical perspective to contemporary debates surrounding the role of the humanities in civil society. The beginnings of the historical enquiry where located in the Victorian era, as it was then that the relationship between education and society was not only debated at length but also trialled through university men’s active engagement in innovative educational experiments.The Working Men’s College (London) provided a case-study for the purpose of the Scoping Study.
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Caer Heritage ProjectHistory, Archaeology and Religion
Contact:
Oliver Davis
Work School of History, Archaeology and Religion Cardiff University Colum Drive Cardiff CF10 3EU work
Work Phone: 02920 875610work
Work Email: davisop@cf.ac.ukINTERNET
Website: http://caerheritageproject.com
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Archaeologists from Cardiff University have teamed up with Ely and Caerau Communities First, local residents and the local schools to start the Caerau And Ely Rediscovering (CAER) Heritage Project, based in West Cardiff. The aim of the project is to explore the history and archaeology of the Cardiff suburbs of Caerau and Ely from prehistory through to the modern day, helping to connect communities with their heritage and develop educational opportunities
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This multi-partner, bi-lingual community heritage project is focused on the history of industrial and post industrial communities in the Swansea Valley. The region has a remarkably rich yet complex industrial-urban-environmental heritage, and research into thisinforms a better understanding of how its unique historical and cultural context continues to shape the identity, sense of place, and quality of life of the people who live in an area, where 16.8 percent of the population speaks Welsh
Creative communities in art & design since the 1960sUniversity of Southampton
Contact:
Jonathan Harris
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A seven year doctoral research programme bringing together Winchester School of Art and Tate Liverpool. Four PhD students are examining the creative art and design communities associated with and generated by pop culture in Britain and its many legacies since the 1960s. They will study the rise of Pop as British and world society changed dramatically in that decade, creating new communities who made, consumed and transformed art and daily life over the next forty years.
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Focusing on historical case studies, this research network will examine how connections between members of a community, and between different communities, can enhance creativity. At the same time, it will subject those key terms to rigorous investigation. The network will bring together established and early career researchers, as well as non-academic stakeholders, from a range of institutions, to debate key questions about the relationship between creativity and community.
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The DBH project is firstly intended to demonstrate digital technologies, techniques and expertise developed and/or used at De Montfort University to local and national heritage groups throughout the UK who are concerned with buildings and their artifacts. It is secondly intended to assist community heritage groups in making collaborative bids with De Montfort University for UK Heritage Lottery Fund grants.
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One of the many objects in the Science Museum’s collections is a manual telephone switchboard from the Enfield telephone exchange. It was collected by the Science Museum in 1961, because it was the last of its kind to be taken out of service in the Greater London area. Between 1925 and 1960 this manual telephone switchboard was central to Enfield life. The Enfield Exchange project aimed to find out if anybody remembers it and its telephonists.
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Everyday Muslim is a five-year project to create a central archive of Muslim lives, arts, education and cultures from across the UK.
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Friends of Court Farm, Pembrey and The UK Association of Building Preservation Trusts
Contact:
Doug Neil
Home 9th Floor Alhambra House London WC2H 0AU home
Cell Phone: 07545786372cell
Work Email: director.apt@ahfund.org.ukINTERNET
Website: http://www.ukapt.org.uk/