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Rosa Schling managed the project 'Grow Your Own' for On the Record. She led on the research, writing and oral history interviewing for the project as a whole and for the map on this website. 

Louise O'Hare and Veronica Deutsch led on the project for Post Pandemic Childcare Coalition, contemporary campaigns, local and national politcy research. 

Billy Cooper, Lauren Salter and Aleph Ross contributed research and writing to the map and Linda Mezaks recorded one of the oral history interviews. Laura Toms proof read the interview transcripts. 

Thank you to everyone who attended archive mapping sessions at Bishopsgate Institute and helped identify content for the map. 

Thank you to everyone who contributed their memories, archive material and time to Grow Your Own, this project would not have happened without you.

Thank you to Maggie Murray and Michael Ann Mullen for allowing us to use their photographs in the design of this website.

Thank you to everyone who took part in the project's advisory group and our partners Post Pandemic Childcare Coalition. 

Thank you to Bishopsgate Institute for hosting our archive, and to Bishopsgate Institute, the Women's Library at the London School of Economics, Hackney Archives, Islington Archives, Tower Hamlet Archives and the London Archives for their help with our research in their collections.

Grow Your Own was funded by Trust for London

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