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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).
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 ...
In 1967, American oral historians founded the Oral History Association, and British oral historians founded the Oral History Society in 1969. In 1981, Mansel G. Blackford , a business historian at Ohio State University , argued that oral history was a useful tool to write the history of corporate mergers. [ 60 ]
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.
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.
Photographic and oral history collections [6] The Oxfordshire History Centre encourages organisations and private individuals to deposit relevant records concerning Oxfordshire. [7] [citation needed] Catalogues can be accessed online on Heritage Search, [8] Picture Oxon, [9] National Archives Discovery, [10] or in the searchroom. [citation needed]
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Subsequent oral history work includes studies of the family and community life of Scottish fishermen as well as car workers in Coventry and Turin. Recently, Thompson carried out a research project aimed at recording life stories with trans-national Jamaican families and is currently expanding on his work with pioneers of social research.