University to help uncover grass roots history

Archaeologists and historians from the University of Cambridge are to provide expert help as villagers and communities dig up the past, sometimes literally, as part of a £4.5m project funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund.

Twenty-two local groups in East Anglia who received advice from University of Cambridge researchers in preparing their application have been successful in being awarded up to £10,000 funding each from the HLF as part of the All Our Stories programme – a nationwide scheme of 500 projects that will help people to explore and discover their community’s heritage.
 
Led by Cambridge University archaeologist Dr Carenza Lewis, the University’s Cambridge Community Heritage team was supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) to lend expertise to groups in Cambridge and across the region including Ely, Ashwell, Hildersham, Saffron Walden and Marham, in Norfolk.

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Image: On a dig/ University of Cambridge

Reproduced courtesy of the University of Cambridge
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