The aim of the project is to write history from the bottom up. History is often written from the top down and is about the big events, the big people and the big changes.
Our History takes a different perspective, where history is told by and about the people who lived it. In short, Our History will give people access to tell their story, increase historical awareness by focusing on everyone's history, and give historians access to a completely new and unique source material.
Our History will form the basis for historical training in the education system, intergenerational cohesion, citizen involvement, and historical scientific breakthroughs.
The goal is to explore how the functioning and change of society (e.g. nationalism, religion and welfare state) has been experienced by the people who lived in it (their feelings, attitudes, etc.). New methods such as digital history are used in this context, but source-related challenges remain: the research field has too few systematic sources for how people have experienced historical development. Our History is a response to this challenge and will contribute both with concrete sources and the development of innovative methods for collecting this source material.
The project is based on the principles of inclusion, active contributions from citizens and reciprocity from Citizen Science. It offers a partnership with upper secondary schools to collect Danes' stories and use them in curriculum-based teaching. The project focuses on topics such as welfare, children and family in the period 1950-2000, but can be expanded.
The schools are offered a digital learning platform and all classes participate in the physical final where they present a scientific poster to the researchers in the project.
Last Updated 07.10.2025