Whatever your political persuasion and feelings about this week’s election result, historians of Britain will likely come to mark it as the end of one era and the start of the next.
Children of the 2000s were schooled in a very different social and economic landscape, entering adulthood after the 2008 financial crash and with 14 often-turbulent years of Tory rule which may have helped or hindered whatever dreams they harboured in their classroom days.
As we look at their faces through the Derbyshire Times archives, we wonder what became of them, where are they now, and how will the years ahead shape the future of their counterparts in 2024?
5. Derbyshire's class of the 2000s
Springwell community school pupils Alice Potter, Charlotte Hempenstall, Toni Moore and Amelia Yeates. Photo: RKH
6. Derbyshire's class of the 2000s
New head Geoff Leyland welcomes pupils Peter Lacey, Harry Bradford, Alex Wright, from the three original clay cross schools to the newly opened Sharley Park community school. Photo: RKH
7. Derbyshire's class of the 2000s
Deincourt school pupils and staff from the allotment and graffiti clubs get a financial boost from Cty Cllr Kevin Gillott and Cty Cllr David Chapman. Photo: RKH
8. Derbyshire's class of the 2000s
Meadows Community School poetry prize winners Ellie Scott, Chloe Lawrence, with staff members Sheena Field, Janet Denton, Linda Thompson. Photo: RKH