Their Finest Hour

  • 17 February 2024
  • 11am - 3pm

Christmas Opening Hours

Seasonal opening hours will apply on:

 

Tuesday 24 December    10am - 3pm

Wednesday 25 December    CLOSED

Tuesday 31 December    10am - 3pm

 

On all other dates our normal opening hours (10am - 4pm) will apply.

Book your visit

Do you have any items or stories related to the Second World War that you would like to share and preserve for future generations?

 

The University of Oxford, with funding from the National Lottery Heritage Fund, aims to empower local communities to digitally preserve these stories and objects before they are lost to posterity. 

Bring your diaries, letters, photographs, memoirs, objects or stories about your family’s experience in the war here to the National Memorial Arboretum to be recorded and added to the Universities freely-available, online archive.

Volunteers will be on hand from 11.00am to 3.00pm to welcome you and help record your story and photograph your objects.

Please do not bring any weapons or dangerous items (including gas masks) to the event.

Aerial shot of the RAF Wing, National Memorial Arboretum

Their Finest Hour

Their Finest Hour is a University of Oxford project that aims to collect and digitally archive the everyday stories and objects of the Second World War that have been passed down from generation to generation.

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