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The British-based organisation was founded in 1973, with its origins in an informal day conference at the British Institute of Recorded Sound (BIRS) in 1969. [1] In the early years support for the Society was drawn from amongst labour and social historians as well as archivists, folklorists, ethnographers and researchers in oral tradition (including the School of Scottish Studies).
Oral history is the collection and study of historical information from people, families, ... Oral History in the UK was first published in 1972; ...
The unique and internationally recognized archive collection has grown to over 700 oral history interviews and over 4,000 hours of audio and video recordings [3] [4] making it the largest independent oral history collection of its kind in the UK.
The proposal for NLS was first developed by Paul Thompson and Asa Briggs in 1985–86. The project for a "National Life Story Collection" had a number of distinct features; it was to be a "life story" project intending to collect full autobiographical material including both written autobiographies as well as recorded "oral history"; and it was intended to "record first-hand experiences of as ...
Theatre Archive Project Oral History strand. British Library Sounds free online access to over 90,000 sound tracks. Peter Copeland Conservation Manager of the National Sound Archive/British Library Sound Archive from 1986 to 2002. National Life Stories, an independent charitable trust within the Oral History section of the British Library.
Thompson is regarded as one of the pioneers of oral history as a research methodology in the social sciences. In 1973 he founded the Oral History Society and the journal Oral History. Between 1970 and 1973 he carried out a project titled 'Family Life and Work Experience before 1918' which was the first national oral history interview study to ...
An Oral History of British Science is an oral history project conducted by National Life Stories at the British Library. [1] The project began in 2009 with funding from the Arcadia Fund, the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 and a number of other private donors and focuses on audio interviews with British science and engineering figures.
Chamberlain is Emeritus Professor of History, at Oxford Brookes University. [5] Her book Fenwomen.Portrait of Women in an English Village was the first book published by Virago Press in 1975, [6] and pioneered the use of oral history in the study of women’s history.