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Exhibitions
- 'Adventurers and Pirates' - Hetton Coal Company, 1820
- Looking back at Consett Steel Works
- Celebrating Gala Day 2020
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County Durham remembers VE Day 1945
- 'We have come through' - Remembering VE Day 1945
- 9th Battalion DLI: From D-Day to Berlin
- 9th Battalion DLI: VE Day
- 9th Battalion DLI: In Berlin, June - September 1945
- Berlin Victory Parade, 7 September 1945
- Victory Parade at Belsen, 8 May 1945
- The Northern Echo, Victory edition, 9 May 1945
- VE Day and Durham Schools
- 2nd Battalion DLI: Burma 1945
- 2nd Battalion DLI: Rangoon Victory Parade, 15 June 1945
- VE Day and the Durham Miners' Association
- County Durham celebrates VE Day
- Haswell Victory Celebrations, 1945
- Soldier: Victory Souvenir edition, 8 May 1945
- Parade: European Victory edition, 26 May 1945
- VE Day not forgotten by one Spennymoor family
- County Durham celebrates VJ Day
- Victory Day, 8 June 1946
Projects
Information about Durham County Record Office archive projects and partnership working.
Current projects
Durham at War 2013 - 2018
In 2014 Durham County Council received stage 2 support of £475,100 from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) for a Durham at War centenary commemorative project.
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The website launched on 10 September 2014.
The aim of this project is to link the people, places, events and heritage collections of County Durham in the Great War through an interactive mapping website. It also publicises commemorative events and research projects throughout the First World War (WW1) centenary period.

Previous Projects
Heart of Teesdale Landscape Partnership 2011 - 2016
In 2011 the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) approved funding of £1.9 million for the Heart of Teesdale Landscape Partnership. The area has remarkable natural features and associations with historic, cultural and wildlife sites of enduring appeal to scientists, artists and authors, and visitors from far and wide.
The activities of the Landscape Partnership over the period 2011-2016 are guided by a Landscape Conservation Action Plan, with a range of programmes and projects supported by the HLF, Durham County Council and other organisations.

Consett Iron Company records 2012 - 2013
In August 2012 the Business Archives Council awarded the annual BAC cataloguing grant for business archives to Durham County Record Office for the cataloguing of archives of Consett Iron Company and its subsidiary companies. Launched in April 2010, the grant is in support of the National Strategy for Business Archives.

Mining Durham's Hidden Depths 2009 - 2010
This Learning Revolution Transformation Fund project brought together over 100 enthusiastic volunteers to index records in the Durham Miners' Association trade union archive at the Record Office. It resulted in an online Mining Durham's Hidden Depths database which now contains almost 200,000 names and continues to grow.

Listen to the Soldier 2008 - 2009
Listen to the Soldier was a partnership project between the former Durham Light Infantry Museum, the Imperial War Museum and Durham County Record Office, generously supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund.

Image of the Soldier 2003 - 2005

Community Heritage Project 2003 - 2008
