Jack Latimer

Creative director

Jack Latimer has been working in life stories and community histories for 15 years, winning several national training and museum awards along the way.

In 1994, he conceived and co-designed the Gulbenkian award-winning 'My Brighton' exhibit at Brighton Museum and Art Gallery. In 2000, he founded the award-winning My Brighton and Hove community heritage website, which has become a national exemplar of a community history project.

He has also designed interactive museum exhibits for the St John's Ambulance Brigade, the Royal Pavilion, and Shakespeare's Globe theatre.

Jack has taught on the unique Life History Certificate course at the University of Sussex and convened the multimedia strand of the Oral History Society annual conference. He designed the website for the Mass-Observation archive of writing by ordinary people about everyday life in Britain, and produced the Panos Mountain Voices oral history website, which presents interviews with over 300 people who live in mountain and highland regions round the world.

Until recently, Jack was the Chair of QueenSpark Books, one of the UK's oldest community publishers. Under his leadership, the turnover and staffing levels of the organisation increased 300%.