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Calver Weir Oral History
The Calver Weir oral history project is coming towards the end of the interview phase this month. Volunteers have completed over 14 interviews. Five of these are now online, which cover the early history of the mill, Sissons and the restoration of the weir. Future podcasts will include the river and Colditz.
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Tideswell Trail Re-used
The 2011 Tideswell Trails Hidden Histories self-guided leaflet used in Tideswell Church by local artist John Firth. He is using the map to locate his drawings of local places, asking people to guess the locations.
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Hope – Castleton Finds Day
Today was another successful finds day for the Hope and Castleton Lives of the Medieval Common People project. Ninety people came to see the finds from 50 test pits dug in the Derbyshire villages in 2012.
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Cottingham Training
Today we began work with Cottingham Parish Council on a series of workshops exploring the 18th Century history of the village, which lies on the outskirts of Hull. Over the next.three months we will deliver four workshtoops linking archival sources, archaeology and hands-on activities to discover childhood, costume, food and farming 300 years ago.
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Walkley History update
Great night with the Walkley historians last night. Seventeen people gathered around tables in Walkley Community Centre with maps, documents and photos to decide who is going to research what from the lives of WW1 soldiers through the early years of Walkley Reform Club to post-war life, slum clearance and the Walkley Action Group campaign.
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Princes of Gwynedd
We are happy to announce inHeritage are working on the Princes of Gwynedd project. We are writing website text for 30 sites in north Wales as well as pages on ten key figures in the history of the region during the Medieval period. The aim is to encourage visitors to explore the sites, discover key …
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Walkley Ways, Walkley Wars Launch
The Walkley Ways, Walkley Wars history project was launched with a bang at the Walkley Community Centre, Sheffield on Friday evening.
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November Round-Up
November has been a busy month for inHeritage! We’ve barely had time to draw breath. We have been appointed to the new Walkley Ways, Walkley Wars heritage project by Walkley Community Centre, providing project management, oral history mentoring, design and interpretation on a three year community heritage project. The final self-guided trails for the Hunter …
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AHI Conference 2012
The Association for Heritage Interpretation 2012 annual conference (http://www.ahi.org.uk) focused on quality and the visitor experience, putting heritage interpretation at the heart of designing the experience visitors have of a property. The presentations and visits have highlighted the necessity of considering the visitor experience from the outset of interpretive planning. It is not rocket science, however …
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Calver Weir Podcast
The first podcast from the Calver Weir oral history project is now online. It features Ray Fowler talking about his experiences, projects and successes as Sales Director at Sissons, who made stainless steel products at Calver Mill during the second half of the 20th Century. Some were shipped to the Falklands. The interview was recorded …