This is an oral history project studying the changing nature of our leisure time over the last 60 years. FreeTime volunteer investigators are recording oral histories of our leisure time. Hunting out stories that illuminate the past and shine light on our times.
This project aims to preserve and capture memories, to ensure that an important part of our heritage will not be lost. This new archive will be housed at Dorset History Centre, so that future generations can discover the views and feelings of ordinary people through the descriptive accounts of their experience.
Young and old will collaborate and share in a range of activities leading up to an exhibition at Dorset County Museum in March 2014, with a FreeTime app.
We need your memories
Add your stories or old photos of people at play going about their everyday leisure activities, to this important archive. You do not need to have been born and brought up in Dorset to add your memories to this archive.
To find out more:
Project partners
Dorset County Museum, Thomas Hardye School, Dorset History Centre, Dorset Dorset Partnership for Older People Programme (POPP), AgeUK, U3A, Magna, and digital:works
This is a digital:works project supported by a grant from Heritage Lottery Fund.
