Church Street
Theale, Berkshire
RG7 5BZ
Their Finest Hour Project
The West Berkshire Culture Team has teamed up with Oxford University to be a part of a project called Their Finest Hour. The project launched in July 2022, and is funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund. Their Finest Hour is a digital history project coordinated by the University of Oxford and is delivered by local communities. The mission is to document the human story of the Second World War by recording personal histories and objects. Although most eyewitnesses of the conflict have sadly departed, we can still gather their stories and personal effects from their descendants to preserve them for future generations.
To accomplish this, we are holding three digital collection days across West Berkshire in Theale, Hungerford, and Newbury. At a digital collection day original documents and artefacts and any keepsakes with a personal story or simply memories and stories passed down, will be photographed, and recorded. They will then be uploaded online to an archive which will be free to access from June 2024.
For more information about the project please click on the link https://theirfinesthour.english.ox.ac.uk/home we also recommend you to watch this short video which gives a brief summary of the project https://youtu.be/KIl83sUQktQ
Our digital collection day details are.
- Theale Library Tuesday 14th November 2023 10-2pm
Church Street, Theale, Berkshire, RG7 5BZ
Gemma Taylor Culture & Libraries Volunteer Officer
Communities and Wellbeing, West Berkshire Council
Newbury Library, The Wharf, Newbury, RG14 5AU
(01635) 519533 | Ext 2533