Martin Bisiker, Legasee Educational Trust 2025 has been a good year for my charity Legasee Educational Trust, and by default, for me also. I finished the National Lottery Heritage Fund project about the Women’s Royal Army Corps
Who am I? – was the question posed at a recent theatre production by Mukul and Ghetto Tigers, inspired by the stories collected through the oral history project Who am I? – which explored identity and belonging among second-generation
Martin Bisiker- London Regional Advisor The projects listed below are ones that I’ve had some involvement with during 2024: Journey to the Frontline: Trailblazing Women of the British Army Legasee secured a HLF grant to
In 2022 Gunnersbury Park Museum (a recently renovated museum in a Grade II* listed heritage park) won an Everyday Heritage grant from Historic England. The project aimed to explore the impact of heavy industry on life in West London through the
Until a few months ago, I had only a vague understanding of what oral history was, and I had certainly never visited an oral history archive. Now I realise they are a fantastic resource for
Sarah Lowry introduces the oral history collections of the Royal College of Physicians.
This project documented dairies and doorstep milk delivery, an important long-standing feature of many communities, through photography and oral history.
This project involved an oral historian working creatively with spoken testimonies to create memory-based art and poetry. It explored the importance of taking time to reflect on and celebrate a person’s life and achievements and what it means to have that life story encapsulated in an artwork.
