Centre for Life History and Life Writing Research

Places for All?

A Multi-Media Investigation of Citizenship, Work and Belonging in a Fast-Changing Provincial City

Exploring Peterborough residents' stories through words, photographs, film and theatre

Places for All? explores the multiple and diverse place attachments and work and migration histories of people of all ethnic backgrounds, from people born in the city to those who arrived very recently.

Oral history and residential fieldwork are at the heart of the research, which draws on the stories of over one hundred people.

Places for All? A Multi-Media Investigation of Citizenship, Work and Belonging in A Fast-Changing Provincial City