Writing Our History and Digging Our Past: Enhancing and Expanding Community History and Archaeology Through Academic Engagement

该方案旨在维持联合国研究人员与非学术历史学家和考古学家之间的长期合作，以最近启动的项目为基础，并促进研究自己遗产的新社区团体的出现。该项目的特色在于：社区考古与社区历史的交叉融合；从罗马时代到现在，学者们提供的长期专业知识；区域重点与区域以外更广泛联系的结合；以及团队中资深和早期职业研究人员与社区团体合作的深度经验。该方案将受益于联合国的强有力的机构支持，包括高级研究中心、大学博物馆和社区伙伴关系小组。它还将利用联合国的非高等教育合作伙伴，包括诺丁汉城市博物馆和画廊、诺丁汉郡档案馆、德班之家（布罗克斯托自治市议会）、国民信托、诺福克博物馆服务、德比郡VCH信托、索斯韦尔镇议会和约克考古信托/特伦特和皮克考古。拟议的课程将由一组学者提供，这些学者参与了一系列旗舰项目，包括以社区为基础的地方历史和考古学研究。这些包括：1；凯斯托尔罗马城项目，自2008年开始运行（鲍登）：志愿者团体承担了该项目的大部分考古现场工作和发现处理。Southwell考古项目：成立于2011年（King， Bowden等人），与Southwell社区考古小组共同设计；在书面记录的背景下，将城镇和周边地区作为检验定居点的实验室而与众不同。3 . Southwell济贫院（Badcock, Carter, Newman）联合国与国民信托基金会的合作成立于2011年：目前的项目包括与Southwell济贫院研究小组的志愿者一起工作，整理19c报纸上的济贫法历史数据。维多利亚郡历史德比郡和诺丁汉郡（里登）：当地小组（德比郡三个，诺茨一个）在导师的指导和支持下，为他们选择的教区提供原始材料，并共同起草适合在VCH网站上发布的文本。煤矿遗产（Amos）：与Bilsthorpe遗产协会和其他前矿工团体合作的新项目，旨在记录“一个行业的终结”及其对采矿社区的影响。罗利和普莱尔的项目（冈特，哈维）：正在进行的项目涉及诺丁汉制造商的前员工，已经关闭或大幅削减生产。在这些项目的基础上，2012年2月至11月期间的活动内容将包括：i)项目团队与高级别论坛代表和nccpei的联络ii)针对联合国学者的启动活动；提高现有项目的知名度并展示社区研究伙伴关系的好处（ii）通过挑战基金鼓励开展更多活动，作为联合国学者的资源，为涉及现有社区团体的项目提出想法，这些项目可以扩展现有的研究和共同设计高级别基金赠款；每个项目最高500英镑；关于“书写我们的历史”和“挖掘我们的过去”的路演活动，包括研讨会、培训和品尝会，使志愿者能够展示工作并获得新技能，吸引新员工，并在学者和志愿者之间建立新的联系；展示和项目发展日，展示挑战基金试点项目并指导高瓴基金投标；为高瓴基金资助和未资助的项目提供后续研讨会，展望未来计划。该规划的好处将是加强现有的以社区为基础的研究，培养新的社区团体和共同设计高水平基金资助的研究投标。从长期来看，该项目将建立与志愿研究人员进行学术接触的新能力。

This programme aims to sustain longer-standing collaborations between UoN researchers with non-academic historians and archaeologists, build on recently-launched projects, and foster the emergence of new community groups researching their own heritage. The distinctive features of the qualities of the programme include the cross-fertilization between community archaeology and community history; the long run of expertise offered by academics involved from Roman times to the present; the combination of a regional focus with wider connections beyond the region; and the depth of experience working with community groups offered by senior and early career researchers in the team.The programme will benefit from strong institutional support from the UoN including the Centre for Advanced Studies, the University Museum and the Community Partnerships team. It will also draw on the UoN's non-HEI partners including Nottingham City Museums and Galleries, Nottinghamshire Archives, Durban House (Broxtowe Borough Council), National Trust, Norfolk Museum Service, Derbyshire VCH Trust, Southwell Town Council, and York Archaeological Trust/Trent & Peak Archaeology.The proposed programme will be delivered by a team of academics involved in a portfolio of flagship projects involving community-based research in local history and archaeology. These include: 1. Caistor Roman Town project, running since 2008 (Bowden): volunteer groups undertake large sections of the project's archaeological field work and finds processing.2. Southwell archaeology project: established in 2011 (King, Bowden and others), co-designed with Southwell Community Archaeology Group; distinctive for its use of the town and environs as a laboratory for examining settlement in the context of the written record.3. Southwell Workhouse (Badcock, Carter, Newman) collaboration between UoN and National Trust established 2011: current project includes work with volunteers in Southwell Workhouse Research Group collating data on Poor Law history from 19c newspapers.4. Victoria County History Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire (Riden): local groups (three in Derbyshire, one in Notts) work with guidance and support of tutor on source material for their chosen parish and co-draft text suitable for publication on the VCH website.5. Coalmining heritage (Amos): new project with Bilsthorpe heritage society and other ex-miners' groups seeks to document the 'end of an industry' and its impact on mining communities.6. Raleigh and Player's projects (Gaunt, Harvey): ongoing projects involving former workforces of Nottingham manufacturers that have shut down or drastically cut production.Building on these projects, the content of the activities taking place between February and November 2012 will entail:i) Project team liaison with HLF representative and NCCPEii) Launch events targeting UoN academics, raising profile of existing projects and demonstrating benefits of community research partnershipsiii) Incentivizing additional activities through the Challenge Fund as a resource for UoN academics to pitch ideas for projects involving existing community groups that could extend existing research and co-design HLF grants: up to £500 per projectiv) Roadshow events on 'Writing Our History' and 'Digging Our Past' including workshop, training and taster sessions to enable volunteers to present work and acquire new skills, attract new recruits, and broker new links between academics and volunteersv) Showcase and Project development day where Challenge Fund pilot projects presented and HLF bids mentoredvi) Follow-up workshops for HLF-funded and unfunded projects looking to future plans.The benefits of the programme will be the enhancement of existing community-based research, the fostering of new community groups and the co-design of research bids for HLF funding. In the longer term, the programme will build new capacity for academic engagement with volunteer researchers.