Students and staff at the University of Sheffield have begun work on ‘Life in Sheffield in the 1980s’, a new oral history project for students at the Department of History at the University of Sheffield: ‘When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground’. History isn’t just books in the library, it’s also people’s… [Read more…]
October 30, 2011 by Fiona Cosson
The inaugural Spring School in Oral History will be held on 26-28 April 2012 at the Institute for Historical Research, London, in association with the Oral History Society. The first two days will focus upon six major themes, or issues, within oral history: memory; experience; the researcher’s habitus; re-use of recordings; representativeness and generalisability; and… [Read more…]
October 18, 2011 by Fiona Cosson
Brighton Swimming Club has received funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund to create an accessible archive that delves into a fascinating and extensive heritage of swimming in Brighton using archives that date back to 1860. Founded on the 4th May 1860, at a meeting held at the Jolly Fisherman’s Inn in Market Street, Brighton –… [Read more…]
October 17, 2011 by Fiona Cosson
At 8.22am on Friday 22nd September 1989 a massive blast destroyed all three floors of the recreation centre at the Royal Marine School of Music, Deal, killing 10 bandsmen and injuring 22, one of whom died a month later. The Deal Barracks bombing was part of a concerted campaign by the IRA against the deployment of… [Read more…]
October 13, 2011 by Fiona Cosson
The Public History group has been running at Ruskin College alongside conferences, seminars and the MA in Public History for some 15 years. With the decision to stop running the successful MA in Public History – which was the first of its kind in Britain and followed the long tradition of history-making at Ruskin pioneered… [Read more…]
October 12, 2011 by Fiona Cosson
Post by Janet Swan and Sarah Lee Football, not cotton is the thread running through the lives of people in Burnley in an area once at the heart of the weaving industry. And now for the first time, the stories, memories and traditions of fans are being woven together into Burnley Football Club’s first unofficial history.… [Read more…]
October 3, 2011 by Fiona Cosson
The Centre for Research in Memory, Narrative and Histories at the University of Brighton has announced its seminar series for the academic year 2011-2012: 19 October 2011: Professor Timothy Ashplant, independent scholar ‘Working-class Life Writing: from Micro-story to Macro-perspectives through a Critical and Pedagogic Online Edition’ 9 November 2011: Professor Christine Gledhill, University of Sunderland ‘The… [Read more…]
October 31, 2011 by Fiona Cosson
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