A regional daily has teamed up with the BBC to help with a project run by the corporation on the history of pop music.

The Nottingham Post has lent its backing to BBC Music’s People’s History of Pop, a national project that aims to tell the stories of British rock and pop music from the 1950s to the noughties with an online archive and TV series.

The Post and BBC Radio Nottingham to crowd source audio and video examples of readers’ cherished music memorabilia, including ticket stubs, badges, programmes, T-shirts, diary entries, teen band recordings, wrist bands and rare footage that help illustrate the city’s cultural heritage.

The radio station is currently running a four-part series on pop music between the 1950s and 1980s.

Post editor Mike Sassi, pictured above left, said: “Nottingham has such a fantastic history and heritage in music and it’s absolutely right that we should celebrate that.

He added: “Music is an important part of the city’s cultural heritage and it has now kicked on with the likes of Jake Bugg and Saint Raymond.”

BBC Radio Nottingham editor Sophie Shardlow said: “This project is a celebration of pop culture told through the audience, charting the pivotal moments of music history.

“We all love to remember great experiences from our youth and music is such a big part of most people’s lives.

“This is a chance to share those memories, including favourite gigs, the best places people went out in Nottingham, your heroes and the fashion you wore.”