Project outline

Funded by a ‘Your Heritage’ Lottery grant this project is collecting personal testimonies, photographs and memorabilia to document the history of football in Milton Keynes over the last 100 years. The primary source material collected will be used to create a website, exhibition, book and digital stories.

A ‘Down Memory Lane’ event was held at the MK Dons Stadium, September 2007. People where encouraged to bring photographs, memorabilia, video, stories and memories. There were displays of archive material provided by Living Archive and other local football clubs.

People were encouraged to tell their football stories. Forty of these stories are being followed up with in depth interviews, they will be transcribed, digitised to form an oral history archive.

Other primary source material collected at the ‘Down Memory Lane’ event will be digitised and used as part of the project.

The archive stories and photographs researched by the Living Archive volunteer team will feature in the MK Dons football programmes throughout the season.

Digital stories based around ‘what football means to me’ will be created and shown on screens at the stadium before matches.

Panels displaying information collected (stories and photos) will be designed and sited in public areas of the MK Dons Stadium.