News from MKHA

The Milton Keynes area has featured on the national timeline of history many times owing to its central location, connection to key transport and communication routes, innovative approach and ability to deliver many 'firsts' in the UK.

This year MK Heritage Open Days celebrates 'Made in MK’. This will run from 28th June to 15th September 2013 and will celebrate arts and heritage across Milton Keynes all summer long – come along to exhibitions, workshops, talks, open days, craft events and performances. Made in MK will appeal to all ages and many events will be free of charge.

Full details of all the events are available on the HODs website: www.mkheritage.co.uk/hodmk/index.html

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Living Archive is an organisation that aims to collect, preserve and share the heritage and history of Milton Keynes and the surrounding areas. It has an archive collection, based at Milton Keynes Museum and it holds frequent exhibitions and other community events around the area.

We've recently been awarded funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund to run a project about the First World War. We already have a lot of material on how the First World War affected people's lives in Wolverton and New Bradwell. We want to carry out more research to uncover what other material exists locally in the Milton Keynes area. This material will then be collated into a book.

We're looking to recruit Volunteers to help us with this project, who would be really interested in the information that they were able to uncover. They must have good research skills and confidence in using IT equipment. The project is based at Milton Keynes Museum on a Tuesday morning although this can be flexible. Please contact Mel Jeavons - mel@livingarchive.org.uk or 322568 for an informal chat.

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MKHA will be running a further PowerPoint Workshop on Saturday 20th July in the Training Room at Milton Keynes Museum from 09.30am-12.30pm. The Tutor for the session will be Anna McEvoy. The Training Room is situated in the first building on the right when entering the museum. (formerly the telephone room).

The workshop will give you the chance to develop your use of PowerPoint to create slides for use as MKHA meeting reports or for those special occasion/holiday photos for the family, So bring along plenty of photographs on your USB stick.

Members of MKHA and MKHA groups are eligible to attend. Please email mkha@buckspoint.org.uk to book your place.

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