Interviewing a couple celebrating 60 years of marriage
I love the feeling of sending off a Spoken Memoir in its special box and reflecting back on the interview and the clients I have worked with. The box I sent off today contained an interview I did with a couple who have been married for over 60 years. It's not the...
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Shopkeepers of the World- Oral History Training
What do the objects we own tell us about who we are and what kind of memories and stories might we have about them? Shopkeepers of the World is a project uniting and celebrating the culture of shopping in St Leonards on Sea and Bexhill, exploring the charity shop as a...
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Joan’s story
There are so many times during an oral history interview when you hear a story that makes you stop in your tracks. Joan's story of her trip to her local butchers in Charlton, south east London in 1944 was one of those stories. It's an example of one of those twists...
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