Historic England has announced funding for 56 new working-class history projects over the next two years. Awards under the £875,000 Everyday Heritage Grants programme range from £6,800 to £25,000 per individual project.

Among those to receive funding are the Tolpuddle Old Chapel Trust, which gets £9,978 for its Tolpuddle Family Lives: A People’s Heritage project, and LGBT+ Northern Social Group, which gets £10,940 for Pink Triangles and Purple Circles: working class histories of drag in Newcastle’s Pink Triangle.

This is the second round of the funding scheme, which in 2022 funded 57 projects. Historic England hopes the latest projects ‘will reveal and celebrate fascinating untold stories from across England’: from exploring and documenting the untold histories of St Agnes Place in Kennington (a street central to the Rastafari community and since the 1980s locally known as House of Dread) to creating an interactive walking trail to mark the 70 year history of the Leicester Caribbean Cricket and Social Club.

Further information about the Everyday Heritage Grants programme for 2024, and a full list of projects being funded can be found on the Historic England website.