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Harvestories

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Harvestories is a new oral history website which is based on a project called Harvesting Voices, devised and run by oral historian Judy Simmonds and managed by the Blackdown Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. It aims to preserve and bring together the material gathered from Voices from the Hills and other related existing local collections of voice recordings. The project aims to encourage greater appreciation of the AONB's natural beauty and in particular the cultural and social heritage for both residents and visitors to the area..

Press Releases

Harvestories - a UK first! Oral history website launches the Blackdown Hills to a worldwide audience

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Release Date: 22/02/2012

A fascinating oral history website which documents the everyday lives of people living in and around the Blackdown Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) is being launched. www.harvestories.co.uk

The website, which is believed to be the first of its kind in the UK, records the personal histories of 85 residents in and around the Blackdown Hills, on the Devon and Somerset border. It links ‘memoryscapes with landscapes’ giving a captivating insight in to the character and natural beauty of the area through stories about the people, landscape, culture and crafts of this beautiful and sometimes little known, isolated and rural locality....

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