Community Archive Guidance
Everything you need to know about contributing to the Coasts in Mind Community Archive. Learn to add records, complete metadata fields and make annotations.
Coasts in Mind is a pioneering new three-year project from MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology) made possible by a funding from The National Lottery Heritage Fund, Lloyds Register and Historic England. Coasts in Mind is mobilising communities to record the impact of climate and coastal change in some of England's most vulnerable coastal areas, through a community archive.
Following a successful pilot stage in 2023, we are expanding the project to four study areas: Sefton Coast (Merseyside), Poole Harbour (East Dorset), the Swale Estuary (North Kent), and the Taw-Torridge Estuary (North Devon).
Community members and volunteers will help us document our changing coastlines by contributing personal materials—such as photographs, postcards, and oral histories—while we also revisit existing archives of images, videos, documents, and objects to build a fuller picture of coastal change.
These records will be digitised, and coastal communities will co-curate a Community Archive on our new online mapping platform developed by Humap.