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A living history of Milton Keynes
  • City Of Culture 2029 - how you can help
    City Of Culture 2029 - how you can help
  • Watch our MK documentary films on our YouTube channel here
    Watch our MK documentary films on our YouTube channel here
  • LAMK celebrates MK's hiphop culture - click for more...
    LAMK celebrates MK's hiphop culture - click for more...
  • Meet our Future Songwriters - click here!
    Meet our Future Songwriters - click here!
  • Introducing Living Archive MK - click here to watch
    Introducing Living Archive MK - click here to watch
  • DVD Now Available of Make No Little Plans: The City Builders' Stories
    DVD Now Available of Make No Little Plans: The City Builders' Stories

Pioneers of creative placemaking in Milton Keynes since the 1970s

Living Archive’s creative community projects record, archive and celebrate the unique history and heritage of Milton Keynes. Conceived as an antidote to the assertion that ‘new towns have no history’, and nurtured by the belief that ‘everybody has a story to tell’, our work collects, preserves and shares the stories of residents’ lives, building a sense of place and using old memories to create new ones and bring communities together. Find out more about us.

  • We're proud to be backing the bid - City Of Culture 2029

    We're proud to be backing the bid - City Of Culture 2029

  • Watch our MK documentary films on our YouTube channel here

    Watch our MK documentary films on our YouTube channel here

  • Marion Hill: Living Archive MK's first Honorary Life President

    Marion Hill: Living Archive MK's first Honorary Life President

  • A new trail explores the legacy of Campbell Park

    A new trail explores the legacy of Campbell Park

  • The Milton Keynes Song Book 2 is here!

    The Milton Keynes Song Book 2 is here!

  • Happy 40th Birthday To Us!

    Happy 40th Birthday To Us!

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  • We're proud to be backing the bid - City Of Culture 2029

    We’re proud to support Milton Keynes’ bid to become the UK City of Culture 2029 – what a wonderful opportunity ...
  • Marion Hill: Living Archive MK's first Honorary Life President

    At its meeting in March 2025  the Living Archive Milton Keynes Board unanimously agreed to ask Marion Hill whether she ...
  • The Milton Keynes Songbook

    Over the past 40 years we have produced performances from large-scale documentary musical theatre to BBC broadcast radio ballads. We ...
    • Sarah Stevens on The Car Shop is completed on the old McCorquodales siteDoes anyone have any old press release archives from the opening of this business. I was there! Aged 14
    • Gillian Read on Fegan’s Orphanage, Stony Stratfordmy brother in laws father was at Fegans orphanage about 1938 for a few years does anyone remember him ?...
    • David Cook on Our Farm in the 40’s and 50’s – PaulineI grew up on a farm like this I was born in 1946 and we lived with my grandparents, I...
  • Tours of Unity Place

    September 11, 2026 - September 18, 2026
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    Unity Place, 200 Grafton Gate, Milton Keynes MK9 1UP
    Introducing Milton Keynes’ central destination to gather, dine and unwind! This sustainably designed, eight-floor venue enhances wellbeing and collaboration. Home ...
  • Tours of Unity Place

    September 11, 2026 - September 18, 2026
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    Unity Place, 200 Grafton Gate, Milton Keynes MK9 1UP
    Introducing Milton Keynes’ central destination to gather, dine and unwind! This sustainably designed, eight-floor venue enhances wellbeing and collaboration. Home ...
  • Work In Progress: The Working Life Of Turvey Over Time – Exhibition

    September 11, 2026 - September 20, 2026
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    All Saints Church, High Street, Turvey MK43 8EP
    Visit our historic church to see an exhibition exploring how working life in this rural village has changed over centuries. ...
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