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

该计划旨在维持UoN研究人员与非学术历史学家和考古学家之间的长期合作，建立在最近推出的项目上，并促进研究自己遗产的新社区团体的出现。该计划的质量的显着特点包括社区考古学和社区历史之间的交叉施肥;从罗马时代到现在所涉及的学者提供的长期专业知识;区域重点与该地区以外的更广泛的联系相结合;以及团队中资深和早期职业研究人员与社区团体合作的经验。该计划将受益于来自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团队。它还将利用联合国非高等教育机构的合作伙伴，包括诺丁汉城市博物馆和画廊，诺丁汉郡档案馆，德班之家（布罗克斯托镇理事会），国民信托，诺福克博物馆服务，德比郡VCH信托，索斯韦尔镇理事会，和约克考古信托基金/特伦特和山顶考古。拟议的方案将由一个学术团队提供参与的旗舰项目组合，涉及社区-研究当地历史和考古学。这些措施包括：1.凯斯托罗马城项目，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实地工作和发现处理。Southwell考古项目：成立于2011年（国王，鲍登和其他人），共同设计的Southwell社区考古组;其独特的使用城镇和周边地区作为一个实验室，检查解决的背景下，书面记录。Southwell济贫院（巴德科克，卡特，纽曼）Uo N和国家信托基金之间的合作成立于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19 c报纸上关于济贫法历史的数据。维多利亚郡历史德比郡和诺丁汉郡（里登）：当地团体（三个在德比郡，一个在诺茨）的指导和导师的支持下工作，为他们选择的教区和共同起草文本适合在VCH网站上出版的源材料。煤矿遗产（阿莫斯）：一个与比尔索普遗产协会和其他前矿工团体合作的新项目试图记录“一个行业的终结”及其对采矿社区的影响。罗利和Player的项目（Gaunt，Harvey）：正在进行的项目涉及诺丁汉制造商的前工人，这些制造商已经关闭或大幅减产。在这些项目的基础上，2012年2月至11月期间开展的活动内容将包括：一）项目小组与HLF代表和NCCPEii）针对联合国学术界的启动活动，提高现有项目的知名度，展示社区研究伙伴关系的好处三）通过挑战基金激励额外的活动，作为联合国学者的资源，为涉及现有社区团体的项目提供想法，这些社区团体可以扩展现有的研究和共同设计HLF赠款：每个项目高达500英镑iv）关于“书写我们的历史”和“挖掘我们的过去”的路演活动，包括工作坊，培训和品尝会，使志愿者能够展示工作和学习新技能，吸引新员工，v）展示和项目开发日，在此期间介绍挑战基金试点项目和高级别基金投标情况vi）为高级别基金资助和未资助的项目举办后续讲习班，展望未来计划。培育新的社区团体和共同设计为高级别基金供资的研究投标。从长远来看，该方案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.