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Club Historians - www.clubhistorians.co.uk - set out not only to document the history of clubs across the country and experiences of members but to act as a campaigning tool. It seeks to highlight the valuable community roles played by clubs as well as their important social capital, to gain a wider audience for their existence as well as their plight.
We encourage people to send in their own experiences, memories and views, even if in very sketchy form. From email messages and letters, I am able to write up the stories and experiences they want to share, keeping their voice s far as possible but making the story accessible to the site’s audience. If there are pictures or images, these are worked into the piece.
Most are thrilled to see their ‘ordinary’ story online and in many ways this is history from below.
One recent example is of Jim Pratt’s parents who met during the war in Leicester. Harley Pratt was in the US Air Force and stationed at Chelveston. He was invited by his prospective father-in-law to join his Northamptonshire Club the Stanwick WMC and he passed on fond memories of the club, plus some memorabilia to his children. Jim wanted to share these and on seeing the result on the site he said that ‘it brought tears to my eyes. I really wish my parents were alive to see this.’
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