Further Information

Launched in 2010, the website marks the impact of the 65^th anniversary of World War II in Scotland with invaluable first hand accounts and digitised coverage.

The dynamic website encourages the use of technology and heritage resources in conjunction for exploration and learning. It features a collection of over 200 online exhibitions, making a lasting contribution to the understanding of Scotland's experience of World War II and post-1945 conflicts, and their impacts on people and places in Scotland whilst also adding local interest and relevance.

Participating projects were encouraged to include at least one oral history in each online exhibition. These reminiscence have then been 'illustrated' with associated items, including diary extracts, newspaper articles, old photographs, archival film, documents, paintings, and photographed objects. Together with the oral histories, media-rich exhibitions have been created around people, events and locations.

The projects have explored incidents, locations, people and themes using resources available in local and national museums, libraries, archives and other sources.

Exhibitions are searchable by themes, keywords and tags. Within each exhibition, the user may browse through the exhibition in its entirety. Additionally, they may filter resources by media-type.

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