Project Team

Jo Roberts, Head of Learning & Access, Cecil Higgins Art Gallery & Bedford Museum
Alison King, Livingstone Lower School
Venetia Thomson, The Hills Lower School
Caroline Sale, Advanced Skills Teacher for History, Bedfordshire

With support from:

Nigel Lutt, Bedfordshire & Luton Archives and Records Service
Jenny Ford, Oral Historian, Bedford Museum

Participating schools

Many thanks to the following schools who either piloted the online material, visited the Museum and Art Gallery, allowed their work to be photographed or contributed ideas.

The Hills Lower School, Bedford
Livingstone Lower Bedford
Castle Lower School, Bedford
Bromham Lower, Bedford

Resources

Special thanks to the many people who contributed their memories of the war as part of the BBC’s People’s War project at Bedford Museum. Grateful thanks also to Bedfordshire & Luton Archives and Records Service for the use of many of its wartime photographs of Bedfordshire on this website and for staff help with requests for information.

Photography

Objects in the collections of Bedford Museum and the Education Service photographed by David Stubbs, Image-Maker

Design and build

Website designed and built by > Footmark Media Ltd
Site maintained by the IT Unit, > Bedford Borough Council

Evaluation

Bedfordshire Schools Improvement Partnership

Funding

This website was funded through a Heritage Lottery Fund Grant to Bedford Museum to record the wartime memories of local people for the BBC’s People’s War project. Further funding to support teacher placements was received from the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council, East of England as part of DfES Strategic Commissioning.

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