Celebrating Local and Community History Month:
- mike26716
- May 19
- 2 min read

Discover the Stories Around You
Every hill, river, town and cave around the UK is rich with hidden histories and community memories waiting to be rediscovered.
With May being Local and Community History Month, it’s the perfect opportunity to dive in to the archives of the past. What better way to tell these stories than through animation.

Scroll-triggered Timeline Animation
Discovering the Past One Decade at a Time
Add a scroll-based animation that reveals major local events in your town’s history. From Victorian industrial booms to wartime resilience, local areas have a unique and fascinating perspective.
By tracing a timeline, you can understand how your community evolved in to what it is today.

Interactive Map
Explore Forgotten Landmarks with an Interactive Map
Many of the natural landmarks and buildings you pass everyday have stories attached to them. Some are incredible feats of construction, some are significant meeting grounds for events.
With an interactive map animation you can pinpoint and compare what you see now, with what left those echoes in time.

Animated Audio Stories
Bringing Voices from the Past to Life
Recreating stories and sounds from the past is an incredibly powerful way to immerse in the history of these lands and the people that occupied them.
Recreations, interviews, authentic soundscapes, can all play a part in bringing the past to the modern audience.

Join in and learn about how communities evolve, through digital storytelling with creative projects and share local history.
If you’ve got an interesting tale from yesteryear, or have something of historical significance with a story that needs to be told. Let’s have a chat about bringing the past to life!