First World War project linking archive and museum collections and
community projects with the Historic Environment Record.
Surrey Heritage has been awarded £458,800 by the Heritage Lottery Fund
(HLF) for its ambitious four-year project ?Surrey in the Great War: A
County Remembers? to run from 2015 to 2018. The project is at the heart of
the county's commemoration of the First World War and the quest to
understand how the war changed the face of Surrey and the lives of its
residents.
The project will lead, collect and publish online community-based research
exploring all aspects of the impact of the war on the county and the
experiences of those who served on the home front and overseas. The
research by volunteers and community groups will draw on Surrey museum's
collections and the archives at Surrey History Centre and in other record
offices as well as exploring how the war was reported in a number of local
newspapers, some of which are being digitised as part of the project.
At the project?s heart will be a new website recording the stories of
Surrey's towns, villages, organisations and individual men and women who
endured the war, both those who survived and those who fell. This
constantly expanding and developing resource will enable people to explore
and understand the impact of the war on the county. A key aim is to try to
connect data from a large range of sources to create the county's Great
War story.
For more information, see
http://www.exploringsurreyspast.org.uk/themes/subjects/military/surreys-first-world-war/remembers/
Phil Cooper
Exploring Surrey's Past Officer
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The Exploring Surrey's Past website was developed by Surrey Heritage, part
of Surrey County Council, with funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund.
The website provides access to a variety of information on Surrey's
heritage, including the collections records for the partner organisations.
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