Hurry – The Jubilee Time Capsule Is After Your Memories

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March 23, 1954. Meredith Hooper, a teenager from Adelaide, is standing in the city's Parliament building waiting to meet the Queen. It is Her Majesty's first visit to Australia, and a nervous Hooper is hiding behind a marble pillar. "Suddenly, she sees me," she writes. "This schoolgirl, tucked in between two pillars, where no one was expected, right next to where she is passing. The briefest of startles. A quick, very small smile. Then she passes on, up the final steps and through the grand door."

Fast forward to 2001. Connor Piercey, a 15-year-old from Bath, remembers the day his father earned a medal for bravery in Afghanistan. There is a portrait of children playing cricket on a rooftop in Calcutta, a vivid watercolour of the Diamond Jubilee river pageant and a black and white photograph of staff at St James's primary school in Bootle, bidding farewell to Mrs Turner, their favourite dinner lady. An emotional Jackie Earthy has submitted a newspaper cutting from the day her husband returned home after being held hostage in Kuwait for 132 days.

All of these – and 80,000 more entries from across the Commonwealth – form part of the Jubilee Time Capsule, a digital collection of memories from the past six decades assembled to commemorate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee. Nearly 35,000 people from 66 countries have submitted photographs, poems, videos and drawings describing an important day in their lives. From watching the moon landings to being initiated into a Kenyan tribe, the online archive – which closes this Sunday – is described by organisers at the Royal Commonwealth Society as "the world's biggest history project".

Hurry – the Jubilee Time Capsule is after your memories - Telegraph 

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