publication date: Aug 8, 2011
This summer on
Saturday 13 August
2011, families are being invited to submit a
diary of the fun they had that
day
– to be held in an
online time capsule for future generations. It
is one of many
summer activities planned as part of
Change4Life's Really Big
Summer Adventure, to inspire families so they pursue a
healthier lifestyle and
encourage children to get the
60 minutes of activity they need each day.
The
diaries can feature
pictures as
well as words and can cover all sorts of activities, from
a day in the park to a
summer disco. or a visit to a
zoo. The idea is to
record the active fun the
nation is having so that it
forms a
snapshot of what people in
Britain were doing that day. You
are invited to
email a diary of up to
300 words to
summerdiary@dh.gsi.gov.uk or search
Change4Life Summer Zone online for details. The diary can be emailed up to a
week after the
13 August, but the diary entry must be for that
day.
A selection of the
diaries submitted
by
families and children will be posted online – as part of the
Mass
Observation Online Community project – for the public to view for
five years. It will then form part of the permanent
Mass Observation Archive collection, housed in the
University of Sussex
library. The
Archive is used by historians, writers,
academics, students and
members of the public interested in researching
everyday life in the past.
