High Peak Community Arts

Youth and Community Arts for the High Peak

Glossopdale Research Project

 

Some of the research from the  ongoing Glossop Research project is currently touring the local libraries and is also available for  any groups, schools etc, that want to use the display.  The exhibition has been to Gamesley Library already and was well recieved.  Its next outing will be at Glossop Library from Monday 10th June until Monday 24th June.  There are loads of photos, quotes and facts as well as the Glossopoly game made by pupils at Glossopdale Community College.  If your group would like to host the exhibtion please get in touch.

There are some films and  pictures related to this project that  we will post up soon, so keep an eye out for them.

 

The research is being conducted in partnership with Leicester University and is part of  project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the project is titled

Revisiting the mid-point of British community studies

And the university are interested in exploring how communities, and community studies, have changed over the course of the second half of the twentieth century and into the 21st century, focusing attention on the town of Glossop. This town in north west Derbyshire is around 13 miles from the centre of Manchester, and was subject to a major study by staff from the University of Manchester in the 1950s, which was published in 1959 as Small town politics.