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A big thankyou to Users and Researchers in the Planned Environment
Therapy Trust Archive and Study Centre!
Thanks to their nominations, and thanks to the support of 'Your Family
History' magazine readers, the Planned Environment Therapy Trust Archive
and Study Centre has been named as Your Family History's "Archive of
the Year".
Today, at the "Who Do You Think You Are? Live" exhibition in London
('the biggest family history event in the world'), well-known BBC
broadcaster, historian, and Editor-in-Chief of 'Your Family History'
magazine Dr. Nick Barratt presented the Planned Environment Therapy
Trust Archive and Study Centre with the prestigious Your Family History
"Archive of the Year" award. Past winners have included the Surrey
County Council History Centre, and Kent County Council's Medway Archives
and Local Studies Centre.
In presenting the award, Dr. Barratt quoted from one of the nominations:
"Not only do they collect and curate a range of small yet important
archival material and collections, including oral histories, but they
also provide a space for people to share memories and experiences
relating to environment therapy – so continue to undertake therapeutic
work today. All this is done on a small budget, showing that you don’t
need millions of pounds to make a difference to people’s lives."
This is a wonderful endorsement of the work we have been able to do,
especially with the help of a Heritage Lottery Fund grant during our
"Therapeutic Living With Other Peoples' Children: An oral history of
residential therapeutic child care" project in 2010-2011. As well as
students and young people, we have been able to work closely with a
number of people who were children in care, their families, and friends;
and to discover and demonstrate how remarkably 'therapeutic' archives
can be in practice.
A fuller press release (with more information and some sad news) is
available here:
http://www.pettrust.org.uk/pett-news/archive-of-the-year-award-winners
For a financially hard-pressed charity archive, a small specialist
repository focused on a difficult but inspirational area of the nation's
heritage, this is, needless to say, a very welcome recognition; and we
would be grateful for it to be shared as widely as possible.
With very many thanks to everyone,
Craig
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