The First World War and its Legacy 2020 and Beyond: Community, Collaboration and Conflict

历史学家拉斐尔·塞缪尔将历史描述为“一种社会形式的知识；在任何给定的一千双手的情况下的工作”（塞缪尔1994）。2014年，人权委员会资助了五个第一次世界大战参与中心，与社区团体合作，探索第一次世界大战的遗产。为响应社区议程，这些中心提供了关于记录当地遗产和数字化的技能讲习班；使用档案/博物馆藏品或与纪念活动相关的内容特定讲习班；工作坊通过“时间折射镜头”探索沉默、再现和纪念等问题。其结果是，参与中心创造了独特的社区学术合作，产生了关于第一次世界大战的新知识，以及关于过去对今天生活在英国的社区的价值。然而，百年纪念的性质、背景和后果只有在其结束时才能得到充分认识。同样，2019年，在英国各地的一系列跨中心节日上，大学、社区和遗产组织的合作制作和多种合作伙伴关系的实践充分展示了它们的潜力。这一提议对这两种结果都作出了回应。《第一次世界大战及其遗产2020年及以后：社区、合作与冲突》旨在通过共同设计和共同制作一系列电子书，维持公民研究人员“一千只手”工作的社会和文化影响，这些电子书将使社区研究作为一种生活资源继续流通，并以此为未来围绕社区参与和国家纪念的遗产政策提供一个模式。

The historian Raphael Samuel described history as 'a social form of knowledge; the work in any given instance of a thousand hands' (Samuel 1994). In 2014 the AHRC funded five First World War Engagement Centres to work with community groups to explore the legacies of the First World War. Responsive to community agendas, the Centres offered skills workshops on recording local heritage, and digitization; content specific workshops based on using archive/museum collections or linked to commemorative events; and workshops which explored through a 'temporally inflected lens' issues around silences, representation and memorialisation. The result was that the Engagement Centres created unique community-academic collaborations, generating new knowledge about the First World War and about the value of the past to communities living in the UK today. However, the nature, context and consequences of the centenary could only be fully appreciated at its conclusion. Similarly, the practices of co-production and multiple partnerships across universities, community and heritage organisations, demonstrated their full potential at a series of the cross-Centre Festivals across the UK in 2019. This proposal responds to both sets of outcomes. The First World War and its Legacy 2020 and Beyond: Community, Collaboration and Conflict aims to sustain the social and cultural impact of the work of 'a thousand hands' of citizen researchers through the co-design and co-production of a series of e-books which will keep in circulation community research as a living resource and in doing so offer a model for future heritage policy around community engagement and national commemoration.