‘We Are Still Here’: Our Journey
How interviewing individuals from the HIV-community within their own living spaces was a learning curve for the researchers themselves.
Category: Regions
A Japanese oral historian in Leicester
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.
Our Social Networks: friendships and relationships of people with a learning disability
Mencap Cymru’s Our Social Networks project has recently ended. Over three-and-a-half years, one pandemic and 59 oral history interviews we have collected the story of people with a learning disability’s friendships and relationships, as well
Granadaland: Exploring the world of television through oral history
In the run up to this year’s OHS conference Oral History and the Media, read about Stephen Kelly’s project interviewing over 120 people who used to work for Granada Television.
It’s queer up north? Finding queerness in Sheffield’s past
Researchers looking into the queer history of local communities outside London may find this to be a difficult task. There is no ‘LGBT’ tab on the local studies library record…
Remote interviewing on Setting the Record Straight/Gwir Gofnod o Gyfnod
Just before lockdown, Archif Menywod Cymru/Women’s Archive Wales embarked on Setting the Record Straight/Gwir Gofnod o Gyfnod – an oral history of Wales’ women politicians and their role during 20 years of Wales’ devolved Senedd.
Remote interviewing over the phone: the Olympus TP-8 mic
The start of the Covid-19 pandemic in March 2020 abruptly changed the course of my oral history work. This blog post sets out how.
Talking through windows: interviewing Syrian refugees in a pandemic
“If I was in a real prison… say there are fifty prisoners in one room, you would at least make friends with five of them… But here, look at my situation. There is no one around.” Salih, Cardiff, 2020
Network Annual Event 2020
Regional Network Annual Event, 16 – 17 October 2020 By Juliana Vandegrift and Padmini Broomfield In autumn each year, Regional Networkers from across the UK get together for a programme of business meeting, Continuing Professional
Oral history in Yorkshire in 2020
South Yorkshire (Sam Smith & Michelle Winslow) This is a limited report due to the Covid-19 situation, oral history training and projects planned at Rotherham Museum and Archives and Elsecar Heritage Centre have been postponed,
