The Oral History Unit and Collective’s Foodbank Histories and Mutual Aid Oral History projects address the social and historical justice issues of Food Poverty. The projects have reached completion, but the issues remain, and the interviews and findings continue to influence ongoing research, public awareness and engagement initiatives. Here Unit Associate Researcher, Silvie Fisch reviews Live Youth Theatre‘s new production of Fed Up.

Exciting new avenues for future collaborative oral history projects and research have been opened that build on the work of the Collective.  

On the 20^th and the 21^st of February 2024, a delegation from Mustansiriyah University, Iraq, visited Newcastle University to sign a new research and teaching agreement. 

Joe Redmayne has joined Newcastle University’s Oral History Unit and Collective (NUOHUC) as a researcher to assist Historic England’s ‘Women in Shipbuilding’ project. The project works in partnership with NUOHUC; Women’s Engineering Society (WES); Imperial War Museums (IWM); and in collaboration with Remembering the Past, North Tyneside Art Studio and North Tyneside Council. It is funded by the Lloyds Register Foundation. For press reports about the project see the following links: BBC; ITV; Northern Soul; and Cultured North East. Joe writes:

In this post, Andy Clark, who is a research associate in History, Classics and Archaeology at Newcastle, discusses his upcoming INSIGHTS Public Lecture based on research that he has led into the aftermath of the Lockerbie Disaster, 1988. The lecture will take place on Thursday December 7^th, 2023, at 5:30pm 

Professor Graham Smith posts here about his recent visit to India to promote collaborative partnerships in environmental oral history.

Ryan Fallon, who completed his Masters at Newcastle University last year, has been been appointed to a Northern Bridge Studentship for an oral history project, starting this October.