The Museum of Oxfordwas awarded a grant by the Big Lottery funding scheme Home Front Recall to capture the memories of WW2 veterans, and others who lived through the war on the Home Front. The funding allowed the museum to gather these stories while it is still possible to hear them first hand. The project included a Wartime Tea Dance, training volunteers to record memories, school workshops and an interactive exhibition.
Wartime Tea Dance Oxford Town Hall
We’ll Meet Again!
The museum invited 250 guests to share their memories at a Tea Dance in the Town Hall on 30 March 2005. It was hoped the dance would invoke some happy memories of the wartime and encourage volunteers to come forward and share their recollections.
Museum Staff dressed in WW2 uniforms
Brighton Jive Dancers help with a Wartime Sing-a-long
From March to July 2005 local students and museum staff gathered memories, photographs and objects for the project, We’ll Meet Again: Memories of the Home Front in Oxford. The information gathered is now available on a touch screen kiosk in the museum and a copy of it sent to local schools on CD.
