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News about an oral history project in Middleton, Leeds spotted on http://southleedslife.com The Middleton Life local history project launched last week, with local residents contributing towards history panels, a stained glass window and a special heritage edition of South Leeds Life magazine, which is out soon. They’ve also put together a 25-minute oral history film, which saw Middleton Life […]
More than 70 delegates from around the world met at the Oral History Society’s annual conference in Southampton on 13th and 14th July. The theme of this year’s conference was Displaced childhoods: Oral History and traumatic experiences and papers focused on a range of subjects: from the effects of growing up in care; to the […]
July 13, 2012 by Fiona Cosson
‘South Yorkshire Through Time’ – A new web-based community history archive for South Yorkshire This brand-new website is bringing together community and oral history organisations and activities in South Yorkshire. This is currently being developed by Michelle Winslow (Oral History Society/University of Sheffield), John Tanner (/Oral History Society/Barnsley Museum) and Alison Twells (Sheffield Hallam University). […]
July 9, 2012 by Fiona Cosson
A Guided Site Specific Experience Of Trent Park’s Top Secret War History… German and Austrian refugees – many of them Jewish – who had fled Nazi Germany before the Second World War, were recruited by British intelligence to spy on top-ranking Nazi prisoners in a secret project based at an Enfield mansion. Now this secret […]
July 1, 2012 by Fiona Cosson
Thanks to a grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund, children from Gateway Primary School have made a fascinating film about Church Street Market. Recording the history of this street market and capturing a vivid snapshot of the market as it is today. Working alongside arts and education charity, digital:works,with the support of City of Westminster […]
July 20, 2012 by Fiona Cosson
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