{"id":553,"date":"2020-05-19T16:40:27","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T15:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/oral-history\/?p=553"},"modified":"2023-01-19T16:00:03","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T16:00:03","slug":"podcast-episode-mary-stewart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/oral-history\/2020\/05\/19\/podcast-episode-mary-stewart\/","title":{"rendered":"Podcast Episode &#8211; Mary Stewart"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"887\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/oral-history\/files\/2020\/05\/Mary-Stewart-1024x887.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-557 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/oral-history\/files\/2020\/05\/Mary-Stewart-1024x887.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/oral-history\/files\/2020\/05\/Mary-Stewart-300x260.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/oral-history\/files\/2020\/05\/Mary-Stewart-768x665.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/oral-history\/files\/2020\/05\/Mary-Stewart-346x300.jpg 346w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/oral-history\/files\/2020\/05\/Mary-Stewart.jpg 1025w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><em>Mary Stewart is Curator of Oral History and Deputy Director of National Life Stories at the British Library. In this podcast, she discusses the family history that contributed to her Masters Thesis, how she came to work with the British Library, the process of archiving, and the practicalities of managing the British Library Oral History collection.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Oral History Roundtable: Mary Stewart\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/episode\/5zYWaO70Hmg83YuPzq4i7m?si=d21vTaetRVOUr4MAtv2ikw&#038;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As well as the widget above, you can listen to the podcast here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Radio Public: <a href=\"https:\/\/radiopublic.com\/newcastle-oral-history-unit-podca-8QojZr\">https:\/\/radiopublic.com\/newcastle-oral-history-unit-podca-8QojZr<\/a><\/li><li>Podbean: <a href=\"https:\/\/nohuc.podbean.com\/\">https:\/\/nohuc.podbean.com\/<\/a><\/li><li>Pocket Casts: <a href=\"https:\/\/pca.st\/n3pe9ooa\">https:\/\/pca.st\/n3pe9ooa<\/a>&nbsp; <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Please see the links below for materials to accompany this episode.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>A short news report on about Mary&#8217;s great great grandfather, William McCaw<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/scotland\/south_of_scotland\/8126259.stm\" target=\"_blank\"> is available here.<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bl.uk\/projects\/national-life-stories\">National Life Stories at the British Library<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bl.uk\/oralhistory.\">The British Library Oral History homepage<\/a>&nbsp; <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Mary is a Trustee of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ohs.org.uk.\">Oral History Society<\/a>: &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>A list of Mary&#8217;s <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bl.uk\/people\/experts\/mary-stewart\" target=\"_blank\">publications is available here.<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The Autumn 2013 edition of the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ohs.org.uk\/journal\/\">Oral History<\/a><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ohs.org.uk\/journal\/\"> journal<\/a> was focused on Archives<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Mary mentions several interviews at the British Library:&nbsp;Margaret [Peggy] Roberts (reference&nbsp;C464\/68), Donald Palmer (C1379\/102)&nbsp;and Roy Dommett (C1379\/14).&nbsp; Search the Sound and Moving Image catalogue for more information: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/sami.bl.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/sami.bl.uk<\/a><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/sami.bl.uk\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/sami.bl.uk<\/a>&nbsp; and listen online to all three recordings at British Library Sounds&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/sounds.bl.uk\/Oral-history\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/sounds.bl.uk\/Oral-history<\/a>&nbsp;.&nbsp;Find out more about Roy, Donald and over 100 British Scientists at Voices of science:&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bl.uk\/voices-of-science\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.bl.uk\/voices-of-science<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Blog about site specific sound tours of the British Library:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bl.uk\/sound-and-vision\/2018\/10\/sound-stories-and-new-perspectives-site-specific-curated-sound-tours-of-the-british-library.html\">https:\/\/blogs.bl.uk\/sound-and-vision\/2018\/10\/sound-stories-and-new-perspectives-site-specific-curated-sound-tours-of-the-british-library.html<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Information on the NLS project An Oral History of the Electricity Supply Industry in the UK, including the excellent end of project report:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bl.uk\/projects\/national-life-stories-an-oral-history-of-the-electricity-supply-industry-in-the-uk\">https:\/\/www.bl.uk\/projects\/national-life-stories-an-oral-history-of-the-electricity-supply-industry-in-the-uk<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mary Stewart is Curator of Oral History and Deputy Director of National Life Stories at the British Library. In this podcast, she discusses the family history that contributed to her Masters Thesis, how she came to work with the British &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/oral-history\/2020\/05\/19\/podcast-episode-mary-stewart\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7121,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,9],"tags":[48,87,88,89,17,73],"class_list":["post-553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcast","category-research","tag-archive","tag-british-library","tag-family-history","tag-life-stories","tag-oral-history","tag-podcast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/oral-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/oral-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/oral-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/oral-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7121"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/oral-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/oral-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":863,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/oral-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions\/863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/oral-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/oral-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/oral-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}