An ONLINE event Dr Toby Butler and Dr Saskia Papadakis from Royal Holloway, University of London will report on a recently completed three-year project recording 100 life stories for the National Life Stories Collection at
South Asian Britain: Connecting Histories, launched in July 2025, is a free online platform that reveals the interconnected, rich presence of South Asians in Britain, spanning from the 1830s to today. A major output of the
The September 2025 meeting of the OHS Archives and Oral History Special Interest Group will feature a special public talk from Britta Lange, a lecturer at the Institute of the History and Theory of Culture
Piggott Theatre, British Library A unique event with leading environmentalists Areeba Hamid (Co-director of Greenpeace UK); Asad Rehman (CEO of Friends of the Earth) and Harriet Lamb (Chief Executive of the Green Party) and Tony
British Library Friday 31 October 11.30 The British Library’s Doctoral Open Days are for current and prospective PhD students and other researchers new to using our collections. In this session, explore collections covering music, audio
The September 2025 meeting of the OHS Archives and Oral History Special Interest Group will feature a special public talk from Britta Lange, a lecturer at the Institute of the History and Theory of Culture
This blog looks at the Sounds for the Future audio preservation project. It describes the work involved, emphasises how long cataloguing can take, warns about the cost of keeping playback equipment running, and shares the fun of outreach sessions.
The Citizens Archive of Pakistan (CAP), initially established to preserve 1947 Partition stories, is now dedicated to the cultural and historic preservation of diverse South Asian narratives.
Rob Perks writes: Fifty years ago an eclectic group gathered in York to form the Oral History Society. They declared that the ‘interview method presents a tremendous opportunity for historians’ and that ‘oral history is
Oral histories of BBC people in online catalogue give rich insights to the culturally curious, community historians & academic researchers.
