2. Review of HLFs Investment in Oral History Projects Final Revised Report 22_10_13_SM (28.8.19)Download
| Collection name | Institution | Year | Info | link |
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| The Radstock Museum oral history video archive project | The Radstock museum | 2003 | School children were trained in oral history. The made learning resources, an exhibiton, bookelt and DVD, because “ensuring the heritage is now better interpreted and explained for future generations.” (HFL website). On the website of the Radstock Museum I searched oral hsitroy in their online catalogue but got nothing back. | https://www.heritagefund.org.uk/projects/radstock-museum-oral-history-video-archive-project https://radstockmuseum.co.uk/ |
| Capturing the stories of London’s Chinatown | Chinese Mental Health Association | 2005 | “The project created 50 oral history recordings, the documentary How Far Do Leaves Fall?, and a children’s booklet, Dragons and Teacups. Over 30 volunteers developed oral history interviewing and recording skills. The project raised awareness of the heritage of the UK’s Chinese community nationwide. The project was so successful that CMHA went on to deliver another HLF-funded heritage project.” (HLF website) The website link on the HLF website is a dead link. I cannot find the website anywhere. NHS project A copy of the DVD is in the British Library. | https://www.heritagefund.org.uk/projects/capturing-stories-londons-chinatown |
| Capturing 1940s-1960s stories of Nigerian immigranst to Manchester | Afristar Foundation | 2015 | The made an exhibition and a documentary film. “Members of the Nigerian community are proud that these early memories are safely lodged in Archives+ at Manchester Central Library.” (HLF website) The website link on the HLF website is a dead link. I cannot find the website anywhere. I also struggled to find the original recordings in the Manchester Central Library | https://www.heritagefund.org.uk/projects/capturing-1940s-1960s-stories-nigerian-immigrants-manchester |
| Hadhari Oral History Project | Hadhari Project | 2011 | 36 young people were trained in oral history. They had formal launch event and an exhibition, a resource pack, and DVD. NHS project. | https://www.heritagefund.org.uk/projects/hadhari-oral-history-project |
| Rebellious Sounds Archive: women and activism | Dreadnought South West | 2017 | Funding from HLF was specifically for setting up an online archive. It is still online. On th ewebiste they have clips of the oral history recordings and most have transcripts. | https://www.heritagefund.org.uk/projects/rebellious-sounds-archive-women-and-activism http://dreadnoughtsouthwest.org.uk/rebellious-sounds-archive/ |
| 2016 Punk London project | Museum of London | 2016 | I found the punk porject because I search the Museum of London catalogoue for oral hsitroy recordings. And ther first recording said which exhibtion it belonged to. There were however other oral history recording which did not say what they were recorded for. | https://collections.museumoflondon.org.uk/online/object/952817.html |
| Cambodian Recollections | SEA Arts | 2014 | Project was run by Dayanny So and was supported by Hackney Museum and SOAS and the Khmer Arts & Heritage Gallery. They had an exhibiton, made a booklet and had workshops. The recordings are on youtube. 8 are free to view and 15 are hidden. There is very little meta data available. The recordings are not archived at Hackney Museum. SEA arts website is not registered anymore | https://www.heritagefund.org.uk/projects/cambodian-recollections-0 https://hyperallergic.com/221784/an-artist-collects-the-stories-of-cambodian-refugees/ |
| ARKive | Wildscreen | 2003-2019 | At the time of the launch ARKive was supported by some big dogs. It aimed to become the world’s biggest encyclopedia of on Earth. It closed in 2019 due to funding issues. “the complete collection of over 100,000 images and videos is now being stored securely offline for future generations” (yippy.life/brand/arkive) The porject had been mentioned in Review of HLFs Investment in Oral History Projects Final Revised Report | https://yippy.life/brand/arkive https://www.gov.uk/government/news/minister-announces-new-arkive-of-rare-wildlife-images https://www.stem.org.uk/elibrary/collection/2776 |
| Captive Memories | Liverppol School of Tropical Medicine | 2009 | An oral history project on Far East prisoners of war. They worked with a High School. They do have a page on the HLF webiste but no information is available except how much money they got. On the LSYM website I found a link to the Captive Memories website which is a dead link. The page also has a link to an episode of Radio 4’s woman’s hour. I have now found the Captive Memories website. It is .org.uk not .co.uk. The websiet has clips of oral history recordings. The project had been mentioned in Review of HLFs Investment in Oral History Projects Final Revised Report | https://www.lstmed.ac.uk/news-events/news/womans-hour-and-lstm https://www.lstmed.ac.uk/news-events/news/fepow-bamboo-garden-launched-at-ness https://www.lstmed.ac.uk/history/far-eastern-prisoners-of-war-fepow/captive-memories |
| African Heritage Initiatives: Contributions of African Migrants in Birmingham | Cameroon Advice and Support Service UK | 2009 | The project had been mentioned in Review of HLFs Investment in Oral History Projects Final Revised Report. They do have a page on the HLF webiste but no information is available except how much money they got. I can find very very lilttle on the project, but there is a book that was published. It was written by Frederick Ebot Ashu. I can’t be sure who he is. | https://www.communityarchives.org.uk/content/organisation/african-heritage-initiatives-contributions-of-africans-to-birmingham |
| Walking Proud in East London | River Cultures Festival | 2009 | The project had been mentioned in Review of HLFs Investment in Oral History Projects Final Revised Report. They do have a page on the HLF webiste but no information is available except how much money they got. Www.rivercultures.co.uk does not work, eventhough it is linked to LGBT archive. I found the recordings on youtiube with limited metadata. The last thing posted on the channel was 7 years ago. | https://www.heritagefund.org.uk/projects/walking-proud-east-london-revealing-lgbt-lives-and-memory-0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_JRA-4Q_wg |
| Celebrating Stornaway | Stornaway Historical Scoiety | The project had been mentioned in Review of HLFs Investment in Oral History Projects Final Revised Report. | ||
| The Past | African Heritage and Educational Centre | The project had been mentioned in Review of HLFs Investment in Oral History Projects Final Revised Report. | ||
| Embracing Africe Project | The Highlife Centre LtD | 2015 | A project where they collected objects and historical information. The made an exhibiton, a website amd a festival. The project had been mentioned in Review of HLFs Investment in Oral History Projects Final Revised Report. No sign of oral history recordinsg on the webiste. | https://www.heritagefund.org.uk/projects/embracing-africa-project |
| Hidden Minds: The untold heirtage of Shenley Asylim | Mind in Harrow | 2011 | The project had been mentioned in Review of HLFs Investment in Oral History Projects Final Revised Report. They do have a page on the HLF website but no information is available except how much money they got. They made a touring exhibiton. And I found on transcript extract. I tried to search the archives on the website but could not find anything. | https://www.heritagefund.org.uk/projects/hidden-minds-untold-heritage-shenley-asylum-0
Hidden Mindshttps://headstonemanor.org/the-collection/your-exhibitions/past-exhibitions/ |
| Steelos – Song of Steel | Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council | 2008 | The project had been mentioned in Review of HLFs Investment in Oral History Projects Final Revised Report. They do have a page on the HLF website but no information is available except how much money they got. They made a documentary. There used to be a website. Project was not maintained. | https://www.heritagefund.org.uk/projects/steelos-song-steel https://www.kubrickslenscap.co.uk/documentaries/steelos-songs-of-steel/ https://www.webarchive.org.uk/wayback/archive/20121101114516/http://www.songsofsteel.com/ |
| Sharing Tongues: Black LGBT Oral Testimonies | Rukus! Federation | 2008 | The project had been mentioned in Review of HLFs Investment in Oral History Projects Final Revised Report. They do have a page on the HLF website but no information is available except how much money they got. A card leaflet advertising the porject is in the wellcome collection. The collection is in the London Metropolitan Archives. I looked through the collection list and there does not seem to be any oral history recordings in teh collection. | https://www.heritagefund.org.uk/projects/sharing-tongues-black-lgbt-oral-testimonies https://wellcomecollection.org/works/dgt2h2mf https://lgbtialms2012.blogspot.com/2012/06/sharing-tongues-black-lgbt-oral.html |
| High Fell – the Cumbria Landscape Story | Cumbria Wildlife Trust | 2010 | The project had been mentioned in Review of HLFs Investment in Oral History Projects Final Revised Report. They do have a page on the HLF website but no information is available except how much money they got. “The full length interviews will be available at Carlisle Archive Service in due course. A selection of interviews will be published on the British Library website. You can read the full descriptions online at the British Library’s Sound and Moving Image catalogue. The British Library collection reference is UAP026. The local reference is DSO-313.” (northwestsoundheritage.org) The website highfell.org.uk/listing does not work | https://www.heritagefund.org.uk/projects/high-fell-cumbria-landscape-story-0
High Fell – the Cumbria landscape story High Fell – The Cumbria Landscape Story |
| Therapeutic Living With Other People’s Children: An oral history of residential therapeutic child care, c. 1930-c.1980″” | Planned Environment Therapy Trust (also knowned at the Mulberry Bush) | 2009 | The project had been mentioned in Review of HLFs Investment in Oral History Projects Final Revised Report. They do have a page on the HLF website but no information is available except how much money they got. This is an archive. Planned Enirvonment Therapy Trust was dissolved in 2018 and was moved to the Mulberry Bush Organisation. There a catalogue entry indecating a full collection. | https://www.heritagefund.org.uk/projects/therapeutic-living-other-peoples-children-oral-history-residential-therapeutic-child-0
Planned Environment Therapy Archives and Special Collectionshttps://archives.mulberrybush.org.uk/ |
| Heritage Plus | Women’s Royal Voluntary Service | c. 2010 | The project had been mentioned in Review of HLFs Investment in Oral History Projects Final Revised Report. They seem to have something in the National Archive. But I also search the roayl voluntary service archive catalogue with “heritage plus” and I got nothing. They do have oral history recordings but they were recorded in 2014 which is a bit later than the report suggests. | https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F227578 http://catalogue.royalvoluntaryservice.org.uk/calmview/Overview.aspx |
| Movies and Memories Project | Screen Archive South East | 2009 +2011 | They have two entires on the HLF website. The project had been mentioned in Review of HLFs Investment in Oral History Projects Final Revised Report. “Screen Archive South East was funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund to run the Movies and Memories project which took place in 2012/13. The project used SASE’s collection of archive film to stimulate memories and stories, and gathered over 60 audio and video recordings of local reminiscences and oral histories.” (screenarchive.brighton,ac.uk) They seem to only have a compilation of oral history recordings. | https://www.heritagefund.org.uk/projects/movies-and-memories-sase-medway-community-history-project-0 https://www.heritagefund.org.uk/projects/movies-and-memories-exploring-west-sussex-seaside-towns-film https://screenarchive.brighton.ac.uk/collection/1473/ |
| Foundling Lives | Foundling Museum | Strangerly does not have a page on HLF. The project had been mentioned in Review of HLFs Investment in Oral History Projects Final Revised Report. It even has a link to a page but it is dead. https://foundlingvoices.foundlingmuseum.org.uk/ | ||
| From Auschwitz to Ambleside | Another Space | Strangerly does not have a page on HLF. The project had been mentioned in Review of HLFs Investment in Oral History Projects Final Revised Report. It even has a link to a page but it is dead. https://www.anotherspace.org.uk/a2a/ Have found the correct page for Anotehr Space. From Auschwitz to Ambleside is a permanent exhibition at Another Space. It appears to be part of The Lake District Holocaust Project. On the LDHP websiet you can get extracts of the oral histories. But where the raw recordings are I do not know. | http://anotherspace.org.uk/?page_id=15
Oral Testimony |
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| The Birmingham HIV Living Archive Project | Freshwinds | 2008 | The project had been mentioned in Review of HLFs Investment in Oral History Projects Final Revised Report. It even has a link to a page but it is dead. http://www.birminghamlivingarchive.org.uk/ They do have a page on the HLF website but no information is available except how much money they got. NHS project. I cannot find the birmingham living archive. Absolutely no idea where these recordings are. | https://www.heritagefund.org.uk/projects/birmingham-hiv-living-archive-project |
| Italians in Wales | ENAIP | Does not have a page on HLF. The project had been mentioned in Review of HLFs Investment in Oral History Projects Final Revised Report. It even has a link to a page but it is dead. http://www.enaip.org.uk/ CANNOT find anything | ||
| Kingston Aviation Centenary Project | Hawker Associtation | 2011 | The project had been mentioned in Review of HLFs Investment in Oral History Projects Final Revised Report. They do have a page on the HLF website but no information is available except how much money they got. They have transcripts on the website. The Kingston Aviation webiste claims the oral history recordings have been deposited at Kingston Museum and Brooklands Museum. Brookland Archives does not show any sign of having oral history recordings. | https://www.heritagefund.org.uk/projects/kingston-aviation-centenary-project-0
Homepage |
| Going to the Pictures | Plaza Community Cinema | 2011 | The project had been mentioned in Review of HLFs Investment in Oral History Projects Final Revised Report. They do have a page on the HLF website but no information is available except how much money they got. “These memories have helped create this website, a film, a documentary and a Cinema Heritage Trail.” (goingtothepictuers.org.uk) The project website claims the recordings are at the North West Sound Archive and Sefton Records Office. Cannot find any evidence of recordings on the North West Sound Archive. | https://www.heritagefund.org.uk/projects/going-pictures-0 http://goingtothepictures.org.uk/ |
| Birmingham Pigeon Archive | Project Pigeon | 2011 | The project had been mentioned in Review of HLFs Investment in Oral History Projects Final Revised Report. They do have a page on the HLF website but no information is available except how much money they got. Community Archives has a website for the project but the address just leads to a betting website. https://project-pigeon.co.uk/ Alexandra Lockett wrote about it in the Guardian. | https://www.heritagefund.org.uk/projects/birmingham-pigeon-archive-0
Birmingham Pigeon Archivehttps://www.business-live.co.uk/economic-development/birmingham-pigeon-archive-launched-honour-3918284 |
| LGBT Archive Project | Plymouth Pride Forum | Strangerly does not have a page on HLF. The project had been mentioned in Review of HLFs Investment in Oral History Projects Final Revised Report. The Plymouth LGBT Archive is part of Plymouth University. The community Archive website has a link on it for the archive but it is a dead link. http://plymlgbtarchive.org.uk/ | https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/research/cornerstone-heritage/the-plymouth-lgbt-archive
Plymouth LGBT Archive |
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| Feading the Nation’: A celebration of the women’s land army | The yorkshire Museum of Farming (Also known as Murton Park) | 2012 | “Members of the Women’s Land Army reunion group were interviewed by a professional oral history officer and volunteers. Their memories and photographs were then preserved in the museum’s archives and exhibition.” (HLF website) Found the website but no sign of the archive | https://www.heritagefund.org.uk/projects/feeding-nation-celebration-womens-land-army
Museum Of Farming |
| Celebrating the Spirit of the Cracker Packers | Carlisle City Council | 2017 | There had oral history workshop. They work with the Factory, Tullie House Museum and Carlisle Archive Centre. Cannot seem to find the archives at either the archiev centre or the museum | https://cumbriacrack.com/2018/02/28/new-exhibition-celebrates-carlisles-cracker-packers/ https://www.heritagefund.org.uk/projects/celebrating-spirit-cracker-packers |
| 50 Years of Bangla Brummies | Purbanat CIC | 2021 | Oral history recording are on their website as youtube videos. There is no metadata but there are transcritps. | https://www.purbanat.com/interviews https://www.heritagefund.org.uk/projects/50-years-bangla-brummies |
| Hidden histories of owmen’s community and feminist activisim in nottingham since 1970 | Nottingham Women’s History Group | 2021 | The project had been mentioned in Review of HLFs Investment in Oral History Projects Final Revised Report. No idea where tehse oral histories migth be archived or even if there were any. | https://www.heritagefund.org.uk/projects/hidden-histories-womens-community-and-feminist-activism-nottingham-1970 |
| Battlefield bonds: sharing the heritage of Nepal and the UK’s military partnership | Gurkhan Museum | 2023 | Bit early to see where they might put their oral histories. | https://www.heritagefund.org.uk/stories/battlefield-bonds-sharing-heritage-nepal-and-uks-military-partnership |
| Wales is Proud: a look into a national LGBTQ+ collcetion | Museum Wales | 2023 | Maybe a bit too early for knowning what they are going to with the oral history. Catalogue also does not seem to be working | https://www.heritagefund.org.uk/stories/wales-proud-look-national-lgbtq-collection |
| Rediscovering 800 years of disability history | Screen South | 2014 | They collected 31 oral history recordings. The made interactive games and other digital resources. | https://www.heritagefund.org.uk/projects/rediscovering-800-years-disability-history https://www.accentuateuk.org/Accentuate-History-of-Place |
| Wear it out: The culture and heriatge of LGBTQ+ dress in Sussex, 1917-2017 | UAL and Royal Pavilion and Museums Brighton and Hove | 2016 | HLF has a link to a page which claims to give me access to the oral histories. Classic word press page. | https://www.heritagefund.org.uk/projects/wear-it-out-culture-and-heritage-lgbtq-dress-sussex-1917-2017 |
| Celebrating the 50th anniversary of being legal to be gay in Doncaster | Doncaster Pride | 2016 | Strangely says there was a amuseum involved but not which one it was on the HLF page. They made a film. | https://www.heritagefund.org.uk/projects/celebrating-50th-anniversary-being-legal-be-gay-doncaster https://www.doncasterpride.co.uk/doncaster-50 |
| Madhouse: My House? Exploring the history of learning disability | Access All Areas | 2015 | “Eight people with learning disabilities formed a core group and developed and practised heritage skills in research, oral history interviewing and working with archives.” (HLF website) They have written a paper. Access all Areas looks like a very swish company. | https://oro.open.ac.uk/78905/ https://www.heritagefund.org.uk/projects/madhouse-my-house-exploring-history-learning-disability |
| Britannia Museum Oral History Project | Britannia Museum Trust | 2015 | They do have a page on the HLF website but no information is available except how much money they got. Found the infromation sheet for interviewees online. | https://www.heritagefund.org.uk/projects/britannia-museum-oral-history-project-0 https://www.devonmuseums.net/includes/documents/BRNC%20OHP%20INFORMATION%20SHEET%20for%20interviewees.pdf http://www.britanniaassociation.org.uk/news/news.php?id=132&archived=true |
| Forgotten Faces of the First World War: The Chinese Labour Corps | The Meridian Society | 2016 | They made a documentary which is on Youtube. And they have recording of a talk at the british library archived at the birtish libaray. One website was more up to date than the other. | https://www.heritagefund.org.uk/projects/forgotten-faces-first-world-war-chinese-labour-corps http://themeridiansociety.org/CLC/CLC.HTML http://themeridiansociety.org/ |
| Manchester’s China Town Archive Project | Nmanchester Chinese Centre | 2009 | “Working with Manchester Archives and Local Studies (Archives+), Manchester Museum of Science and Industry (MOSI) and North West Sound Archive volunteers were trained in oral history skills.” (HLF website) | https://www.heritagefund.org.uk/projects/manchesters-china-town-archive-project |
| You, Me and Tea | ArtsEkta | 2019 | “The project website will preserve the collected oral histories and features a digital tea tour around Belfast. The oral histories have also been donated to the Public Records Office of Northern Ireland.” (HLF website) | https://www.heritagefund.org.uk/projects/you-me-and-tea https://www.youmeandtea.org/explore |
| 100 years of the Women’s Institutue in the Isle of Ely | Women’s Institute | 2012 | “As part of the project, 14 volunteers were trained in conducting oral history interviews of members which have been made available online.” (HLF website) | https://www.heritagefund.org.uk/projects/100-years-womens-institute-isle-ely |
| From Parks to Pavilions: The history of the first Asian cricket league in Yorkshire | AYA Foundation | 2016 | “Following training from the Oral History Society, the participants put their skills into practice and recorded 26 new oral histories. The interviews focused on cricket but also explored the challenges of being a new arrival in Britain in the 1960s and 70s” (HLF website) They amde a documentary. The oral history recordings are on their webiset as youtube videos. No meta data. Alos they take a long time to load. They are big boys. | https://www.heritagefund.org.uk/projects/parks-pavilions-history-first-asian-cricket-league-yorkshire
Full Oral History Interviews |
| Yemeni Roots, Salford Lives | Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Education Trust | 2011 | “The 18-month project captured the oral histories of 22 people, from elders who migrated during the 1950s throughto third generation descendants. Once completed, the recordings were deposited at AIUET’s Race Resource Centre in Manchester.” (HLF website) The Race archive does have a soudn cloud but it does not seem have the Yemeni Roots recordings. | https://www.heritagefund.org.uk/projects/yemeni-roots-salford-lives http://www.yemeni-community-manchester.org.uk/yemeni-roots-salford-lives https://soundcloud.com/aiucentre/albums |
| Sharing Stories – a people’s museum for Daventry | Daventry Town Council | 2012 | “Project outputs included: a wall of local faces, an oral history archive, interactive displays, and useful digital tools such as a new website. ” (HLF website) Hopefully daventry msuem knows where they are | https://www.heritagefund.org.uk/projects/sharing-stories-peoples-museum-daventry |
| Redeveloping the Green Howards Museum | The Green Howards Trust | 2012 | No sign of oral hstories on the website. | https://www.heritagefund.org.uk/projects/redeveloping-green-howards-museum |
| Blinders to Burgers: Gang Culture in Birmingham: Lessons from History | Recre8 | 2014 | They did archive research and oral history recordings. They made drama pieces, a booklet, a documentary and variosu events. Dead link to project website on HLF webiste. Hard to find Recre8 it a popular name. Very hard to find any more info. They were trained at Birmingham Library so maybe I should look there. | https://www.heritagefund.org.uk/projects/blinders-burgers-gang-culture-birmingham-lessons-history |
| Windrush Scotland: African-Caribbean Experiences in Scotland | Fair Justice System for Scotland Group | 2021 | The HLF page says they were going to make an oral history archive but where it is I do not know. | https://www.heritagefund.org.uk/projects/windrush-scotland-african-caribbean-experiences-scotland
Windrush Scotland – The Experiences of People of African Caribbean Heritage – A Consultative Project |
| Worthing’s First World War discovery trail | Creative Waves Community Arts | 2014 | They did oral histroy recoridings together with archival research. And they map a historical trail map. They worked with Worthing Museum and Art Gallery. Have found the porject page but no sign of raw oral history recordings | https://www.creativewaves.co.uk/heritage https://www.heritagefund.org.uk/projects/worthings-first-world-war-discovery-trail |
| Badges of Honour: How Women Changed the World | Glasgow Women’s Library | 2012 | Hopefully everything should be in the Glasgow Women’s Library archive. | https://www.heritagefund.org.uk/projects/badges-honour-how-women-changed-world https://womenslibrary.org.uk/discover-our-projects/badges-of-honour/ |
| Celebrating Cumbria’s LGBT history | OutREACH Cumbria | 2014 | “The activities are being delivered in partnership with the Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery and concluded with an exhibition showcasing the oral histories, artefacts and images collected as part of this project.” (HLF website) | https://www.heritagefund.org.uk/projects/celebrating-cumbrias-lgbt-history |
| Cutting Edge Heritage – Conserving the Past for the Future | National Coal Mining Museum | 2005 | “19 oral histories were also recorded, in both group and individual interviews” (HLF website) There is one oral history recording on the mining museum website | https://www.heritagefund.org.uk/projects/cutting-edge-heritage-conserving-past-future |
