Their Finest Hour Digital Collection Day

Saturday 25th November, 10:00 - 16:00,  Rainy Hall, New College.

Do you have any Second World War related stories and objects passed down to you from your parents, grandparents and other family members?  

Would you like to digitally preserve these stories and objects before they are lost to history?

Bring your diaries, letters, photos, memories, objects* or stories about your family's wartime experience to our Digital Collection Day, at the University of Edinburgh's historic Rainy Hall, where they will be recorded and added to a free-to-use online archive.

The Digital Collection Day is free to attend and you are welcome to turn up at any time on the day, however we would encourage you to register via Eventbrite to help us to gauge numbers.

This event is part of Their Finest Hour, a National Lottery Heritage funded project run by the University of Oxford, which is collecting and preserving the everyday stories and objects of the Second World War. An open licensed archive of all stories and artefacts collected by the project will be shared online by Oxford in June 2024.

* Please do not bring any potentially dangerous artefacts into Rainy Hall. This includes knives, bladed weapons, firearms (decommissioned or otherwise) and live ammunition.