Archives
Here you can explore the hundreds of community archives listed on this site. You can also find archives on our interactive map. If you can’t see a particular archive listed, please add it to the directory.
Latest archives
- Great Mongeham is a small rural village in East Kent, close to the Cinque Port town of Deal. Over many years, clergymen, schoolteachers and villagers have collected documents, photos, newspaper articles and memories.
- We are a UK-based charity dedicated to hand knitting, domestic machine knitting and crochet, run by volunteers and supported by subscriptions and donations.
- The One Table, Many Stories Community Archive will preserve and celebrate the experiences of older adults, volunteers, families, and community members connected to the Angy Care Health Foundation, a charity based in Gravesend, Kent.
- Established in 2024 at Cudham Environmental Activities Centre run by Woodcraft Folk, this archive is available on request. There is a substantial repository collection including photos, magazines, minutes of meetings relating to Woodcraft Folk.
- A website dedicated to the history of the Somerset parish of Hardington Mandeville
- Cheadle Heritage & History Archives is dedicated to recording and preserving the history of Cheadle, Cheshire as the life of a living community.
Featured archives
- This programme sees communities and groups invited into The Box to interrogate its collections through a particular lens. The most recent iteration of the group was designed to allow people from the Global Majority to look at what was there. The group were particularly struck by images from the 1950s showing people of Caribbean ancestry arriving at Millbay Docks in Plymouth.
- The Our Warwickshire Community History website focusses on community involvement and engagement. It hosts a number of archival contributions from the community including histories, reminiscences, and images.
- Glasgow Zine Library is a community archive and zine library based in Govanhill, Glasgow, established in 2018. We have a growing international collection of roughly 4000 zines (self-published magazines).
- The Liberties Weavers is a voluntary community group dedicated to breathing new life into the 1000 years of history, weaving and textile production in the Liberties, in the centre of Dublin.







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