Their Finest Hour, a WW2 digital history project based at the University of Oxford is working with Coventry Cathedral and looking for people to bring their stories and objects relating to the Second World War to their Digital Collection Day on Saturday 9 September 2023.
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 share and preserve these objects and stories for future generations?
The event is part of a nationwide campaign organised by ‘Their Finest Hour’ (theirfinesthour.org), a team based at the University of Oxford that is collecting and preserving the everyday stories and objects of the Second World War. As these stories are fast fading from living memory, it is vital that they – and the wartime objects* that often accompany them – are preserved for future generations.
At the Digital Collection Day, stories about your family’s wartime experience – and associated objects such as diaries, letters, medals, journals and ration books – will be recorded, digitised, and then uploaded to the Their Finest Hour online archive, which will be free-to-use and launch in June 2024.
Organisers are looking for ANY war-related stories and objects, from the extraordinary to the seemingly ‘ordinary’. To find out more about the event, please visit the event page on the Coventry Cathedral website. If you have any questions, please email events@coventrycathedral.org.uk or theirfinesthour@ell.ox.ac.uk.
*Please do not take any loaded weapons or potentially dangerous objects to the Digital Collection Day.