Find our hidden stories. Trace their connection to the present.
Listen to the enhanced podcasts about the people of the Kite
KITE PEOPLE ARE SOCIALLY PROGRESSIVE
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Social Progress
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KITE PEOPLE ARE NATURE
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Nature
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KITE PEOPLE ARE CREATIVE
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Creativity
Spaceward Studios
Spaceward Studios was started in 1974 by Mike Kemp and Gary Lucas, both ex Cambridge students. The studio was set up on the corner or Victora and Clarendon Streets and was set up as a 16-track recording studio, which made it easier to access and more price competitive to London’s options. Iron Maiden’s The Soundhouse Tapes – the band’s debut EP - was recorded at the studio in 1978.
Image credit: Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0.
KITE PEOPLE ARE COLLABORATIVE
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Collaboration
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About
Let’s Go Fly the Kite

“Let’s Go Fly the Kite” is a citizen science project which explore the history of the Kite area in Cambridge and aims to create a roadmap for how its residents and visitors can build upon their heritage to shape its future. 

The Navigator is your digital space to be inspired by the heritage of the Kite. A storytelling tool where past and present are interweaved to create a more inclusive narrative of Cambridge.

In our enhanced podcasts we showcase four key themes that have shaped The Kite: Socially Progressive, Connected to Nature, Creatively Expressive, and Collaboratively Entrepreneurial. These themes were identified through historical research and residents sharing shared powerful stories of courage, creativity, and community spirit that reveal the heart of this neighbourhood.

This is a National Heritage Lottery Fund project led by Together Culture in partnership with Anglia Ruskin University’s StoryLab and the Cambridge Room. 

The Navigator webpage and podcasts are developed by ARU StoryLab.

The interviews with residents were conducted by ten local people, employed as citizen historians throughout the project.

Additional resources: Capturing Cambridge
Lost in Cambridge
Simon Knott
Roy Hammans


Illustrations: Laura Jingyi Wu
Do you want your own Kite story to be heard? You can contribute to our growing archive by sending in your stories!
Data Protection


Archiving Your story and Use of Data:
All information, stories and images created and contributed as part of the Let's Go Fly a Kite project form part of a 'Creative Commons'. This means that all works created, including any identifying factors will be publicly accessible for third party reuse, if they are contributed, as part of a digital archive and in various public spaces, online and in exhibition format. This means your stories will be assigned a CC BY-NC license. You can read about it here: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

Your story will be archived in the Figshare platform and maintained by Anglia Ruskin University. Your story will thus be made available in a publicly accessible online archive. Your story will also be used to consolidate the history of the Kite, presented on The Navigator online platform, developed as part of this project. This online platform will be linked to Together Culture’s website and will be used for educational, research and promotional and fundraising activities.

While they will be available in the archive, materials created will not be legally useable for commercial purposes. This makes still makes a provision that Together Culture is a non-profit and may use materials gathered as part of its own 'commercial' (e.g. showing a film at a ticketed event), promotional and fundraising activities.

Pseudonymised results will feed into academic journal articles and to support the development of interventions in the field also through funding applications. They may also be used in blogs and social media posts.

Please be sensitive about sharing information about other living people which would make them identifiable. Please do not share information without the permission of other people if they are still alive.

For our funders, and to understand our audiences and develop our work, we ask that all participants and contributors share their postcode and date of birth. This information will not be shared publicly.

All of the information provided as part of the project is gathered and stored in line with our Data Protection and GDPR policies which are available upon request
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