Diana Dixon from CILIP Local Studies Group committee presented the certificate for the 2016 Alan Ball Award to Peterborough Local Studies and Archives Service for their interactive website Peterborough in the Great War on May 3rd 2017.
Despite keen competition this was clearly the winner and Diana pointed out how impressed she had been initially with looking at a changing display on Peterborough Station which highlighted service personnel visiting the tearoom on their way to battle. In talking to the volunteers it was evident just how much painstaking research had gone into tracing the people included in the visitors’ books to the tea room at Peterborough East station during the first World War and making the project so interesting.
Want to find out more about the project? The guys from Peterborough will be telling us all about it at the LSG South’s study day later in the year. Keep your eyes peeled on this blog and our twitter feed for more info.
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