Topic: New BBC Local History Site

[chorleydave]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/legacies

?Legacies? is the local history website from the BBC, but a history website with a difference. The aim is to scrutinise the same UK history that you can find in any book or website, but to show how this history unfolds across every locality of the UK.

National histories are often guilty of airbrushing over our local identities in an attempt to simplify our past. Legacies? aim is to show the UK's past in all its wonderful diversity.

During October and November we're looking at the communities that have shaped our lives today, and what impact we have had on the rest of the world as we've emigrated to all four corners of the globe. Click on the map of the UK, or in the Location Selector, and start your nationwide tour of the UK?s immigration and emigraiton history.

Once you?ve browsed through our extensive library of features, visit our Interact page, where you can enter into debate with other history enthusiasts, send us your own written articles, or ask our resident experts a question.

Here?s a list of what to expect from Legacies in the future.

December 1st - Myths & Legends
The myths and legends that give every region of the UK a place in our
imagination.

February 2nd - Work
The trades and industries that defined our social and natural environments.

If you'd like to contact the production team directly you can do so by e-mailing us on legacies@bbc.co.uk or by post to UK Legacies, Rm 133, BBC Broadcasting House, Queen Margaret Drive, Glasgow, G12 8DG.

[Clive]

I will be taking a good look at that site Dave.  I love any form of history.  Thanks for posting it.

[TR]

Clive..History is an ancient form of forums... where everybody reads what everybody has done before..

Mind you .. love Time team .. could watch that for hours and hours  8)

[Clive]

Mind you .. love Time team .. could watch that for hours and hours  8)

I HAVE to Hook.  It's one of Mrs Clive's favourites.   :heehee:

[Robotochan]

I wonder if anyone will remember that small wee village in Scotland called Cairneyhill of which was the first place to trial "20's Plenty"