Featured image: ‘Red Ronnie’ Campbell holding a copy of Robert’s book, Backbone of the Nation. Photo: Anna Campbell and Margaret Todd. Our shared research in the British coalfields has been immensely rewarding. ‘Staying with it’, appearing in Oral History, 52.2
by Sheila Curran Bernard Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024, 243pp, £25.00 hardback, first edition, ISBN: 9781009098120. Encountering Lead Belly’s recorded legacy for the first time can be an emotional experience. Personally, this arrived through the
Speakers: Timothy Cooper and Harley Dyson This presentation tries to outline the oral history of the oil spill in contemporary history since the Torrey Canyon disaster of 1967. Drawing on both original interviews and archive
The inside story of a British Council oral history project, sharing themes and questions that have emerged from the interviews and some interesting reflections on the value of oral history for organisational learning and storytelling.
The new UK South Asian Digital Archive (UKSADA) project aims to create a comprehensive and accessible archive of the rich heritage of South Asians in Britain. It has its roots in an award-winning temporary exhibition, ‘Rebuilding Lives: 50 years of Ugandan Asians in Leicester’ in 2022, which highlighted the need for a more resource that will also raise awareness about the cultural heritage of South Asian communities through exhibitions, educational resources and events.
An OHS Festival Special Online Event Ticket Information Free to OHS members Free to Oral History Festival delegates £4 to Non-members This special online event, part of the OHS Oral History Festival, explores the challenges
Experiences of two Year 7 students on making podcasts from archived oral history interviews with workers at the Royal Worcester Porcelain Factory. Reflections also from their teacher Lauren Thatcher who supported them through this unique
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
Reflections on some of the colourful memories revealed in oral history interviews from the beginning of the radical, new, post-Robbins Scottish university Almost 20 years ago a group of newly retired staff, many of whom had been
by David Cowan Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024, 300pp, £85.00, hardback In his deeply researched and richly analytical book, David Cowan explores the ways in which memories of the 1930s have been variably composed, narrated and received
