Oral History

Alongside our work on surveying the landscape and working with landowners to explore how it might be farmed in the future, the Luppitt Landscape Partnership is now beginning something new: a one-year project that aims to capture and document the lived history and contemporary experience of people living in Luppitt parish.

To make sense of the options for the future of this landscape, we need to understand the past: how community life has changed, within living memory; what people value now, and valued then; and what heritage and wisdom previous generation offer us, to take forward into the future.

We plan to invite all residents to share their recollections, perceptions and aspirations through interviews and events, running alongside the wider work of the LLP.

Jess Huffman, who will be leading the project, is looking for volunteers to help with the interviews and activities, and the archiving of the results. If you are interested in taking part, please contact Jess on jesshuffman @ hotmail.co.uk for more information.