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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 […]
June 13, 2011 by Fiona Cosson
The Oral History Company recently announced its collaboration with Leeds City Council (City Museum & Libraries), The Thoresby Society, and West Yorkshire Archive Service, on a new initiative to construct a web portal for the gathering together of oral history archives throughout the Leeds area. They are now on the hunt for oral histories of […]
May 4, 2011 by Fiona Cosson
University students at the York St John students have made a series of films using oral histories documenting the success and decline of Hull’s fishing industry. The fishing industry formed a major part of the city’s economy and was a massive employer in the region before a succession of Cod Wars with Iceland. But it was also […]
October 31, 2011 by Fiona Cosson
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