Plymouth Community History Festival

03/10/2025

Day One of this year's festival was brilliant - with some great talks and lots of positive feedback. A big thank you to all our speakers and to everyone who came along!

We have another day of great events coming up at The Box tomorrow (Saturday 4 October). Come along to the Community History Fair to meet local researchers, historians and organisations, bring the kids in for family-friendly drawing activities and enjoy talks by artist Goshka Macuga, Martin Hazell and Richard Sroka.

21/09/2025

⭐ NEW: FRINGE EVENTS NOW LIVE ⭐

Details of this year's Fringe Events for the Plymouth Community History Festival are now online and include guided walks of Turnchapel, the city's blue plaques and Gunnislake/Calstock, a Historical Association Talk about the Normandy Landings and a special 'After Dark' event at Crownhill Fort.

Head to the What's On section of The Box's website for full details and booking information.

18/09/2025

Two weeks to go until the start of this year's festival! Here's a handy run down of the programme.

Most of this year's events are free and you can book your tickets via The Box Plymouth's website/online shop. We hope to see you there!

WonderZoo
Q***r Out Loud
Pride in Plymouth Community Trust
Beyond Face - Theatre Company
Plymouth Walks With History

10/09/2025

This year's Plymouth Community History Festival is bought to you by:
WonderZoo
The Box Plymouth
Beyond Face - Theatre Company
Plymouth Walks With History

It's funded by:
Plymouth Octopus - POP
Tamar Valley National Landscape

Talks on Thursday 2 October, a history walk on Friday 3, and a 'Super Saturday' at The Box on 3 featuring the Plymouth Community History Fair, talks, craft activities and a performance by Beyond Face.

For event details and tickets please see: www.theboxplymouth.com/events/plymouth-community-history-festival-2025

Find out about the activities taking place during this year's Plymouth Community History Festival: with talks, walks, a Super Saturday of activities at The Box and more.

13/08/2025

Our main festival will be over three days from Thursday 2nd to Saturday 4th October 2025. Watch out for the full programme being announced soon. For now, we are putting a shout out to local groups to come and join us for our Community History Festival Day in The Box Plymouth on the Saturday where a limited number of free table spaces are available to local history and community groups. Spaces are limited and details are available from Alan Barclay at [email protected].

13/08/2025

Our Festival Fringe takes place from Saturday 27th September 2025 to Sunday 12th October 2025. If you are hosting any history related events during this time and would like us to promote them as part of the festival then please do get in touch with Alan Barclay at [email protected]. or send us a message.

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13/08/2025

Hi everyone. Welcome to the Plymouth Community History Festival 2025. I'm very pleased to say that thanks to our sponsors The Box Plymouth, Plymouth Octopus - POP and Tamar Valley National Landscape, Tamara Landscape Partnership we are announcing a three day festival and a two week Festival Fringe. This year's organising partners are WonderZoo, Beyond Face - Theatre Company and Plymouth Walks With History.

24/09/2024

The Plymouth Community History Festival Day takes place this Saturday at The Box Plymouth! We're really looking forward to the day which will include poetry, music, information stands from a range of local history organisations - plus lots of other activities in and around the building.

We hope you'll join us. The event will run from 10am-4pm. It's free and there's no need to book!

18/09/2024

This year's Plymouth Community History Festival Day on 28 September will feature a range of performances including poetry, music and 'Devon’s War Girls' - a two-woman play by Med Theatre that explores the stories of those left behind in Devon during the Second World War.

Get full details from the 'What's on' section of The Box's website. Come along and travel back back in time to 1939!

17/09/2024

We are pleased to announce our Community History Festival Day will be on Saturday 28th September 2024 from 10.00am to 4.00pm at The Box Plymouth. For full details please see https://www.theboxplymouth.com/events/september-2024/plymouth-community-history-festival-day-2024

Celebrate Plymouth's diverse history with us on this special day of activities that brings local organisations and performers together at The Box.

11/10/2023

We had some great weather for walks last week!

If you'd like to explore a part of the city you've never seen in-depth before and learn more about its history, take a look at the community walks that are coming up over the next few days.

https://ow.ly/tYhj50PTQ5l

07/10/2023

Postponement of walk scheduled for Monday 9th October. Plymouth Walks With History have let us know that due to a lack of demand, their walk in Ernesettle on Monday has been postponed. A revamped version of the walk which is currently being worked on will be offered in 2024. The Festival walks in St Budeaux tomorrow and those listed for next week will go ahead as planned.