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About whatwasHere.com in Liverpool

whatwasHere.com in Liverpool aims to tell history like it's never been told before: by the people who live in Liverpool and know it best. Everyone knows something about the past, whether it happened yesterday, 20 years ago or 500 years ago. We value that knowledge. We want people to contribute what they know, however big or small. Please contribute your story!

The website is a pilot for whatwasHere.com, funded by NESTA (the National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts). We are working in Liverpool with the Liverpool Library Service and a wide range of community organisations.

You can read more about whatwasHere.com and what we're trying to do in our blog: blog.whatwasHere.com.

whatwasHere.com in Liverpool schools

The main site is for people aged 16+. For under 16's there's a password protected schools version at schools.whatwashere.com. If you would like to get your school involved in the project, please email us at .

Courses and learning

If you are interested in participating in a course based around the website, Liverpool Community College's DISC centres are running IT courses that use the site, the Worker's Educational Association is running a digital photography course, and the BBC are running a range of activities.

Links and further information

You can access links, materials and resources to do further historical research and learning at: links.whatwashere.com.

Give us your feedback!

This is a very public trial for whatwasHere.com. We know we haven't got everything right yet (yes we hate the Lost Stories balloon too, and there's no lost password facility and and...) and want to hear about any problems you experience or ideas you have. Please contact us.

Some background

The pilot started in March 2006 in Walton as www.whatwasinWalton.com, where we tested a first version of the website. Based around Walton Library, this first phase of the project involved a number of community groups and events and collected over 250 stories. In September 2006, based on the feedback from the Walton phase, we expanded to the whole of Liverpool.

Thank you Walton!

Thanks to everyone who took part in the Walton phase of the pilot. We have been amazed at your stories. We would like to give particular thanks to the Forebears Family History Society for their early focus group input for the design of the site, Walton Local History Society for giving us the infamous cow story, John Kerrigan who helped kick-start the project with his stories of Walton, which you can see more of at his own website, www.nowandthen.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk, Jackie Skinner from the Everyman Theatre, Gary Lloyd, Adam Byrne and John Nettleton who made the events at Walton Library a great success.

A full list of the organisations who took part in whatwasinWalton.com and continue to take part is listed at the bottom of this page.

Who are whatwasHere.com?

whatwasHere.com is a not for profit organisation established in 2005 with the sole aim of using the internet and new technologies to get everyone writing and understanding history like never before!
whatwasHere.com are:
Ben Tunstall (who's original idea it was)
Eileen Barlex (who could see how it could work in learning contexts)
Sarah Fraser (who's tenacious with budgets and making things happen)

The future: We need your support!

Our aim is to bring whatwasHere.com to the whole of the UK (and beyond). We are now at the end of our funding from NESTA, and are looking for further opportunities to develop a sustainable business that can expand to the rest of the UK. We've got lots of ideas for services and applications. If you would like to help us make a go of it, please contact .

Who's involved in whatwasHere.com in Liverpool?

Funder: NESTA (the National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts) funded whatwasHere.com to create whatwasinWalton.com as part of NESTA's learning programme. www.nesta.org.uk.
Thanks to NESTA for being prepared to take risks and Siobhan Edwards for having faith in us.

Community Partner: the Liverpool Library Service www.liverpool.gov.uk
A big thanks to Liverpool Library's Learning team (Andy Johnson, Denise Jones, Jacqui Roberts, Neil Campbell), Senior Management (Alan Metcalf, John Keane and Kenny Kay), Tony Green, who's been our main man on the ground, Sue Dean and Ann-Marie Harrison and all the staff of Spellow and Walton Libraries, Roger Hull at the Records Office, all of whose creativity and dogged enthusiasm for the project has ensured it's success.

Developer: Hyperspheric Solutions in Cambridge. www.hyperspheric.com.
Thanks to Jonathan Brenchley and his team for all their hard work and problem solving.

Mapping: The website uses Google's map API. maps.google.co.uk
Other Geodata has been supplied by Ordance Survey www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk under the Pan Government Agreement, through the Department for Culture Media and Sport www.dcms.gov.uk (thanks very much to Nick Casey at DCMS and Zack Abraham at OS).

Evaluation: whatwasHere.com in Liverpool is being evaluated from a learning perspective by Bridget Somekh, Helen Colley and Mark Roberts at The Centre for ICT, Pedagogy and Learning at the Institute of Education, Manchester Metropolitan University.

Community groups and schools

A wide range of community organizations are involved:

Workers Educational Association: www.wea.org.uk

Liverpool Community College DISC Centres: www.liv-coll.ac.uk
Thanks to Maureen Murphy and Enid Fisher-Douglas for developing the first course that uses the website.

Schools
Alsop High School
Arnot Street Primary School
Blessed Sacrament Primary School
Gwladys Street Primary School
Longmoor Lane Primary School
Northcote Primary School
St Frances de Sales Primary School

Walton Youth and Family Learning Groups
Walton Youth Project
Everton Extra Time Club

Local Transport
Merseytravel

Local History Societies
Walton Local History Society (based at Walton Library)
Forebears Family History Society (based at Spellow Library)

Other community organisations
St Mary's Church Walton
Aintree NHS Trust

The list is growing... if you'd like your organisation to get involved, email us at .

Thank you to everyone who's helped us get this far!

In particular:
Alan Boughey (MLA NW), Ben Pirt, Bridget Mckenzie, David Barlex, Dickon Thompson, Katherine Skellon, Kevin Flude, Marie James, Mike Tunstall, Pablo Lloyd, Pat Tunstall, Peter Higgins, Siobhan Edwards.

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