Sitting within the Active & Creative Communities department of North Lanarkshire Council, North Lanarkshire Libraries will draw on connections with groups through Community Learning & Development (including for New Scots), Social Work, Justice and Rehabilitation, and more – including the Lanarkshire Armed Forces Community and Veterans Covenant group – to lead on a project which invites people to reflect on the past, share stories and memories of events in 1945 (sometimes using items from the current museum/archives collections as prompts), and to revisit the idea of freedom now in today’s world.

Members of existing library-based groups, including creative writing groups and memory/reminiscence groups, will be invited to participate, alongside the intergenerational projects which are part of the Driving Digital Locally programme.

All this local community involvement will help shape the content for the immersive rooms which are planned as the final outcome of the project, reflecting the stories and thoughts gathered in the earlier phases.