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?
21. Derbyshire's class of the 2000s
Knight school at Bolsover Castle, Knight Nigel Lamb with Stanfree residents Lauren and Joshua Pearce, aged 12 and 7. Photo: Marisa Cashill
22. Derbyshire's class of the 2000s
Cheque presentation at Dronfield Henry Fanshawe School, 2003. Photo: Derbyshire Times
23. Derbyshire's class of the 2000s
Unstone junior school SATS results 2003. Photo: Derbyshire Times
24. Derbyshire's class of the 2000s
Quality mark award presented to Whitecotes primary school, 2003. Photo: Derbyshire Times