Warwickshire

A Local History Gateway

Long Street, Atherstone 1960

High Street, Shipston on Stour 1950

High Street, Stratford-upon-Avon 1950

Gateway to Warwickshire

• Heritage and Cultural Services are developing a bid to the Heritage Lottery Fund with Warwickshire Local History Society to create a virtual and physical gateway to Warwickshire.

• The bid will– redevelop Market Hall Museum – create a community history website

What is a community history website?

• The site allows users to share photographs, images, comments and text

• A simple category system links the pages

• An advert area allows links to other sites

• Video and audio files can also be posted

Is there any demand for this?

At a meeting in May 2011 representatives of 60 of Warwickshire’s history groups said they were interested in sharing:

• Events

• Research

• Collections

Sharing Events

Sharing Research

Sharing Collections

How will it help Warwickshire’s Heritage and Culture ?

• Make the most of our collections by putting people in touch with their heritage

• Build on existing relationships with community groups and demonstrate the value of our services

• A way of effectively supporting community interest and activity with reduced resources

What could it do for Warwickshire?

• Provide an online space for people to record and share their cultural experiences and showcase local heritage

• Provide infrastructure and facilities that the community can use in a way that suits them e.g. events booking, marketing, social media, cataloguing etc

• Spark local pride and potentially attract tourism

• Act as a resource for formal and informal education

How could it help this network?

Next Steps

• The survey is available at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/8K2QG67 and runs until 20th February

• Please fill it in yourselves and encourage other people to give us their views