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Ambleside Oral History Group
- Archive of over 300 interviews related to life in Ambleside, Cumbria, and the surrounding area, from the 1880’s onwards. Description of the collection and ordering information.
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BBC Radio 4: The Listening Project
- Oral history project which aims to capture conversations of significance between friends and families. Includes full information on how to take part.
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British Library: Oral History
- A guide to accessing the collection at St Pancras, London, a searchable catalogue, and online access to recordings for universities and further education only.
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British Library: Theatre Archive
- An oral history of British theatre 1945-1968, with over 100 transcripts, images and sound extracts.
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British Rocketry Oral History Programme
- Programme that began with the intention of recording the experiences of those who worked in British rocketry in the 50s and 60s and now broadened to include other related areas of postwar research and development.
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Capture Wales
- Archive containing hundreds of digital stories made by people in Wales, as part of a joint project between Cardiff University and the BBC.
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Chatham Dockyard Oral History Project
- Articles, photographs and an invitation to participate in the project.
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East Midlands Oral History Archive
- A joint project to conserve and develop oral history resources in the East Midlands. Holdings and projects, a guide to oral history in the counties, technical advice and training pages.
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Exmoor Oral History Archive
- Over 200 hours of recording featuring 78 people. Includes extracts for downloading and details of a book with an audio CD.
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Kings Cross Voices
- Project which ran between 2004 and 2008 recording people's memories and unique life experiences of the King's Cross area in London. Includes local history, themes, online listening and downloads of a presentation, Pasts Unearthed.
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Kiveton and Wales: Audio Clips
- An oral history archive with interviews including former miners and their wives, teachers, and professional sportsmen.
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Lives in the Oil Industry
- Information about a project in Aberdeen University that created an archive of arguably the twentieth century’s most important industry.
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My Yorkshire
- Helps communities to become digital storytellers in partnership with museums, libraries and archives. Contains images, videos and audio.
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Oral History of British Science
- A guide to a British Library project to create an oral history archive involving 200 in-depth interviews with British scientists.
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Oral History Research Unit
- Unit at Bournemouth University which has ceased active operation as an archive explains where to find ten years of recordings on a technology theme and provides extracts for online listening.
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The Oral History Review
- Official publication of the Oral History Association explores recording, transcribing and preserving conversations with people who have participated in important political, cultural and economic social developments in modern times.
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Oral History Society
- National and international organisation dedicated to the collection and preservation of oral history. Overview, advice, journals, events, members, regional networks and resources.
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Recollections of WWII
- A directory of oral history collections relating to the Second World War; also includes a listing of archives organised by subject.
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Scott Polar Research Institute
- University of Cambridge project recording interviews with explorers, scientists, missionaries and others working in the Arctic and Antarctic.
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Sea Your History: Oral History
- Recordings from people who have lived and worked with the sea in the twentieth century. Themes include naval medicine and people and changing technology.
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Somerset Voices Oral History Archive
- Interviews covering all parts of Somerset vut particularly strong for the Somerset Levels and Glastonbury area. Advice on using the archive, themes and audio clips.
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St Fagans: Sound Archive
- Description of the sound archive in Welsh and English collected by St Fagans National History Museum in Cardiff.
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Telling Lives
- Digital storytelling and oral history project from the BBC features hundreds of videos and personal stories from all over England.
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Waltham Forest Oral History Workshop
- Background and advice, news and projects, list of recordings and a selection of recordings as MP3 files.
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Wild Rose Heritage and Arts
- A community oral history group based in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire. Includes background on the town's history, transcripts, and information about their activities.
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