Their Past Your Future
About the Their Past Your Future programme
The original Their Past Your Future Programme was supported by the Big Lottery Fund and ran as part of the official commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II. Following additional funding from the Big Lottery Fund a further programme was launched across the UK for 2007-2010 to support projects which enable museums, libraries and archives to use their collections and resources to explore innovative and creative ways of increasing community learning and young people's knowledge and understanding of the impact and contemporary significance of conflict. This overarching aim encompasses themes of remembrance and commemoration, identity and reconciliation, citizenship, diversity, asylum, conflict resolution and peacekeeping.
The partners in the Their Past Your Future programme are Museums, Libraries Archives Council, Imperial War Museum, Northern Ireland Museums Council, The National Library of Wales and Museums, Galleries Scotland. For further details please visit our partner's links section.
About the Their Past Your Future digital archive
The digital archive encompasses digital resources and material created as part of the TPYF Phase 1 Programme. And includes websites, digital images, audio files and video related to the 60th anniversaries of VE and VJ days in 2005 and Home Front Recall Programme.
MLA through the Their past Your Future Phase 2 Grant Programme wishes to extend this resource and preserve all digital material produced as part of its three year grants programme 2007-2010. MLA have commissioned ULCC to manage this archive.
ULCC will be providing:
- Preservation storage for this digital material
- Online access to the collections via a web interface
- An online interface to allow organisations to submit material to ULCC
We have already catalogued some materials produced under the Home Front Recall strand of Their Past Your Future and are seeking to collect a full resource for the Their Past Your Future Programme phases one and two.
Home Front Recall collection
ULCC has received numerous digital resources for preservation and eventual presentation online in digitised form. All permissions for material have been granted for use free of charge.
Source of acquisition - The Home Front Recall collection was transferred to ULCC by the Big Lottery Fund in November 2006.
Extent (approximately) - 117 DVDs; 27 audio CDs; 11 multimedia/interactive CD-ROMs; 9 slideshows; 44 photographic collections; 5 text collections; 4 moving image collections.
Dates of collection - 2004-2005
Scope and content - The collection comprises:
- DVD collection- Film or still images, montage, film footage
- CD collection- Oral testimony, music, mixed media (photo collections and slide shows)
- CD-ROMS - 'interactive' content e.g. educational and learning packs. Including interviews with veterans and civilians, songs or music compositions (contemporary and historical), historic sound recordings (e.g. radio broadcasts), exhibitions and digitised objects, photographs.
The Their Past Your Future Phase Two Programme
Their Past Your Future Phase Two (TPYF2) is a UK-wide learning programme supported by the Big Lottery Fund. It follows on from the hugely successful Phase 1 Home Front Recall, Veterans Reunited and Heroes Return Programmes. The new phase, which runs until March 2010, is led by a partnership of; The Imperial War Museum; Museums, Libraries and Archives Council England; Northern Ireland Museum Council; National Library of Wales, and; Museums and Galleries Scotland. For further details visit our our partner's links section.
The programme encourages exploration of the impact and ongoing legacy of 20th century conflict on people in the UK. It draws together projects working with a wide range of themes, from remembrance and commemoration to projects which involve themes of peace keeping, human rights, civic participation and citizenship.