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Year: 2023

  On Saturday 25th November, Edinburgh University student and staff volunteers ran a successful digital archive event on Saturday as part of the University of Oxford’s Their Finest Hour project.  Over 100 members of the public came to the event, and volunteers recorded over 50 interviews and took thousands of photographs of items including a […]

If you are unable to come along to our digital collection day in Edinburgh in person,  you can upload your stories and images directly to the University of Oxford’s Their Finest Hour collection here: Share Your Story  

Public event aims to preserve Second World War memories  The University of Edinburgh is inviting people to bring stories and objects relating to the Second World War to a Digital Collection Day at Rainy Hall, New College on 25th November 2023, from 10am to 4pm.      The University of Edinburgh is excited to partner with […]

Register for the event here: https://edin.ac/451MiRy  

Do you have any Second World War related stories and objects passed down to you from your parents, grandparents and other family members? Would you like to digitally preserve these stories and objects before they are lost to history? Bring your diaries, letters, photos, memories, objects* or stories about your family’s wartime experience to our Digital […]

In July 2022, the University of Oxford launched a digital preservation project; to collate as many World War Two stories and objects as possible across the UK. The scheme, called Their Finest Hour, trains individuals to organise ‘Digital Collection Days’ in their local communities, where members of the public can bring war-related memories, photographs, diaries and any […]

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