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‘Dialect & Oral History: The East Midlands’ is a new resource on East Midlands Oral History Archive‘s website. This project was a collaborative research project conducted in 2011-2012 by researchers from the University of Leicester and Nottingham Trent University. Funded by The British Academy, the project concerned itself with identifying variation and change in the […]
March 23, 2013 by Fiona Cosson
Eastside Community Heritage are celebrating Women’s History Month (March 2013). We’ll be sharing the stories of women who’ve fought against racism in East London, in their own words. Half the Battle will draw from oral history interviews with local activists who have been involved with groups such as Rock Against Racism and Unite Against Fascism. History […]
March 22, 2013 by Fiona Cosson
Unofficial Histories is a public conference to discuss how society produces, presents, and consumes history beyond official and elite versions of the past. The conference seeks to bring together those who wish to consider the value and purpose of historical engagements and understandings that take place within, on the edges of, or outside “official” sites that produce and transmit […]
February 18, 2013 by Fiona Cosson
Britain at Work – (B@W) Oral Labour History Day: Saturday 11 May 2013 Britain at Work is organising an Oral Labour History Day at the Bishopsgate Institute for Saturday 11 May. It will be similar to the one organised in March 2012, but with an afternoon theme focusing on migrant workers and their experiences in […]
Earlier this month, thirty Oral History Society regional networkers attended their annual meeting at the University of Leicester. The theme of the event, hosted by Colin Hyde and Cynthia Brown, was Celebrating anniversaries using oral history: creative ideas & outputs. Colin talked about the East Midlands Oral History Archive project Migration Stories, which focuses on the […]
October 30, 2012 by Fiona Cosson
An exciting new project recording stories about the history of surfing in Britain is underway. ‘The First Wave’ will be interviewing people with memories about the early days of the sport and how it has changed over the decades. The project is supported by a grant of £44,200 from the Heritage Lottery Fund. Longboarder Ben […]
October 22, 2012 by Fiona Cosson
The personal stories of women activists collected, recorded and filmed by academics at the University of Sussex form part of a major new exhibition in London devoted to women’s history and the struggle for female emancipation. Audio clips of feminist activists talking about their experiences in the 1960s, 70s and 80s and film interviews with […]
October 12, 2012 by Fiona Cosson
Sounds from the Park is a new volunteer-led project will preserve and celebrate the heritage of Speakers’ Corner from 1866, when the Reform League tore down the gates of Hyde Park, to the present day. It will be run by On the Record in partnership with Bishopsgate Institute. The project has just been awarded £41,100 from the Heritage […]
September 16, 2012 by Fiona Cosson
Work formally began this month on the Oral History of the Modern Commonwealth project at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies with the full-time appointment of Dr Sue Onslow, a leading historian of British foreign policy and the Commonwealth, as Senior Research Fellow and lead interviewer. Under the leadership of Institute Director, Professor Philip Murphy, the three-year project […]
September 9, 2012 by Fiona Cosson
Reblogged from The Women's Liberation Music Archive: Music & Liberation, an exhibition about Women’s Liberation Music Making in the UK (1970-1989), is touring the UK this autumn. Music & Liberation: Women’s Liberation Music Making in the UK, 1970-1989 shows how feminists used music as an activist tool to entertain and empower women during the 1970s and 1980s. Featuring the […]
September 3, 2012 by Fiona Cosson
Reblogged from Working Class Movement Library: It is only my 5th day as new team member at the WCML and I’ve had a lot to take in! I’m fantastically excited about this project and it has real potential to be the beginning of something wonderful for the Library and for the community. For those who […]
July 20, 2012 by Fiona Cosson
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 […]
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 […]
Funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund, Children’s Lives is the first major project in Birmingham and the West Midlands to consider children’s lived experiences from the 18th century to the present day. The project consists of a series of interrelated activities, including an exhibition at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, and draws on the nationally […]
May 7, 2012 by Fiona Cosson
Burnley Council has received almost £43,000 of Heritage Lottery Funding to deliver a unique health and heritage project which will bring together Burnley’s different generations. ‘Back to the Future’ aims to preserve and capture memories and stories to ensure that an important part of the towns heritage will not be lost, placing an emphasis on […]
May 2, 2012 by Fiona Cosson
The WR Mitchell Archive is an HLF project, based in Settle North Yorkshire, to digitise a sample of audio interviews made by WR Mitchell MBE, formerly editor of the Dalesman, author and journalist over the last 30 years, and make them available to the general public. These unique recordings of Dales voices will be accessible […]
April 18, 2012 by Fiona Cosson
Have you ever wondered what your local area was like in the past? Or how people in your community used to live? This week, the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) is launching a new £1m small grant programme designed to help local communities answer these and countless more questions about their past. All Our Stories will […]
April 17, 2012 by Fiona Cosson
A 200-page book that chronicles 20th century life in a neighbourhood that Graham Greene once called Brighton’s shabby secret will be launched on April 18th 2012. It is part of a two week long exhibition at the Fishing Quarter Gallery situated on the city’s sea front between the two piers. Funded by Heritage Lottery, Knock […]
March 20, 2012 by Fiona Cosson
Cumbria Wildlife Trust will open an exhibition next week highlighting changes in the iconic Cumbrian landscape from over the past 60 years. The High Fell Project is an oral history of Cumbrians who witnessed first-hand the interaction between farming methods and land use; wildlife and tourism, and how it has shaped the fells into what we […]
March 12, 2012 by Fiona Cosson
Further to yesterday’s post, here are some more details about the BBC’s ‘The Listening Project’: BBC Radio 4 has launched The Listening Project, an ambitious new partnership between the network, BBC Local Radio, the BBC’s national radio stations and the British Library which aims to capture the nation in conversation. The Listening Project will invite people across […]
March 11, 2012 by Fiona Cosson
Just a quickie to sign-post an oral-history related article in today’s Observer: How the art of eavesdropping is fuelling boom in oral history- http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/mar/11/conversation-mass-observation-recording-bbc Hat-tip to Noelle McCormack for spotting it
January 30, 2012 by Fiona Cosson
Reblogged from Occupy Oral History: This post was written for the Voluntary Action History Society Blog by Graham Smith, Royal Holloway At the beginning of this year (2012) a small group of oral historians kicked off OccupyOralHistory. We were inspired to do so by the broad movement that is occupying spaces that include not just the streets, former […]
January 26, 2012 by Fiona Cosson
“An extraordinarily fine piece of work…an excellent film” – Joanna Lumley OBE During the Second World War, tens of thousands of working class men were sent to India and Burma, to fight against a formidable Japanese army, in often horrendous conditions. The defence of Burma and India against the seemingly unstoppable advance of a ferocious […]
January 2, 2012 by Fiona Cosson
Happy New Year All! I’d like to draw your attention to a project called Occupy Oral History which has just started, following closely on the heels of and inspired by the broader Occupy History and the Occupy Movement more generally. The project is looking to be an on-line resource as well as an umbrella group under which historians […]
December 16, 2011 by Fiona Cosson
The Scottish Labour History Society has recently published a volume focussing on oral history. The Society was formed in 1961 and to celebrate their 50th anniversary, they have devoted the current issue of the journal, Scottish Labour History (Volume 46) to oral history. The content includes an introduction to the journal, Fiftieth Anniversary Guest Editorial: Working Class History and the People’s Voice […]
Guest Post by Cynthia Brown Last month 35 oral historians got together in Ipswich for the Oral History Society‘s annual regional networkers event. The event, organised by regional network co-ordinator Juliana Vandegrift, enables the society’s network of oral historians around the country to get together, share stories and catch up both on personal and society […]
November 22, 2011 by Fiona Cosson
As part of UK Disability History Month, the British Library is making available a new online package of oral history interviews – Disability Voices– which charts the experiences of disabled people. The Disability Voices online interviews have been collated from a number of project partnerships and collections gathered over the past decade, and more will […]
October 31, 2011 by Fiona Cosson
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 […]
March 24, 2013 by Fiona Cosson
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