Colin Hyde has now returned to EMOHA following his secondment to the Midlands Hub of Unlocking Our Sound Heritage (UOSH). While the British Library will continue this (NLHF funded) project throughout 2022, the regional hubs are
Julia Letts, Regional Networker and Accredited Trainer One of the surprising outcomes of Covid has been the ability to connect with and run training courses for projects across the UK, not just local ones, so
Barnsley The Teenage Wildlife project is working with Barnsley Museums and other partners to record the teenage experiences of Barnsley residents from the last 70 years. The project will explore the impact on Eldon Street
In the course of the last year I have provided advice and assistance to numerous oral history groups and individual researchers, including a number who were applying for HLF funding for the first time. I
In my capacity as OHS regional networker for Scotland, I have dealt with a number of queries this year, relating to advice on funding applications, training, volunteering opportunities, archiving and ethical considerations. My own work
Enquiries: 2021 has been another quiet year for oral history enquiries which may reflect hesitancy around conducting oral histories in person, or perhaps enquiries are seeking advice elsewhere. Islington’s Pride project. I started the year completing work
At first it seemed to have been a quiet year – but I’ve probably been too immersed in the redevelopment of the Oral History Society’s website! So if your project is not in this report,
How Amgueddfa Cymru-National Museum Wales and Welsh Government are working to embed Black History into the story of Wales.
How interviewing individuals from the HIV-community within their own living spaces was a learning curve for the researchers themselves.
Between April 2001 and March 2002 Kiyotaka Sato was a visiting scholar at the Centre for Urban History and the East Midlands Oral History Archive (EMOHA) at the University of Leicester. During his time there he developed an interest in the history and culture of multi-ethnic Britain, and in particular in Leicester itself. Here he reflects on his subsequent research and the ‘Memory and Narrative’ series: a collection of biographical booklets that he published as a result of his work.
