Publications
Helen Lloyd recorded 100 life-stories for the BBC
Millennium oral history project, The Century Speaks, and
made a series of 16 radio programmes, which won the
Commission for Racial Equality’s Race
in the Media Award in 2000. Since then, she has
recorded hundreds of life-stories for many organisations and
made these accessible through…
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Books and pamphlets
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| Birmingham
Voices (Tempus, 1999):
Selection from life-stories recorded for BBC
series, The Century Speaks |
| Britain
1914-2000 (Collins Educational,
2000): includes extracts from
life-stories of immigrants |
| Through
the Keyhole of Islam (Birmingham City
Council, 2002): pamphlet includes
extracts from life-stories of Muslims |
| On
Journeys (Heinemann Library, 2002):
children’s book, in series What was it
like in the past? Includes extract from
interview about journey to UK on Empire
Windrush |
| At
Home (Heinemann Library, 2002):
children’s book, in series What was it
like in the past? Includes extract
from interview about poor housing |
| Diabetes:
the Facts (Oxford University Press,
2008): includes interview extracts
from www.diabetes-stories.com |
| Understanding
Health and Social Care (Sage, 2008):
includes interview extract from www.diabetes-stories.com |
| Grand
Memories
(Wolverhampton Grand Theatre, 2009):
memories of theatre-workers and theatregoers
in brochure with DVD enclosed |
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DVD, CDs
and cassettes
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| Grand Memories DVD
(Wolverhampton Grand Theatre, 2009):
interviews filmed for Wolverhampton Grand
Theatre (sold with brochure) |
| The
Century Speaks boxed set of 8
cassettes (BBC, 2000): complete
16-part radio series, produced by Helen Lloyd |
| Criminal
Cases Review Commission cassette (2001):
victims of miscarriages of justice, recorded,
edited and presented by Helen Lloyd. Sent to
every prison in the country |
| Food
Stories CD (British
Library, 2007): includes extract
from BBC Millennium Memory Bank interview |
| Memories
of Back to Backs CD
(National Trust, 2008): memories
of poor housing, recorded and edited by Helen
- who also produced all audio used on National Trust’s Back to
Backs tour |
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Articles
by Helen Lloyd
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| Five
articles about award-winning Diabetes Stories
website |
BBC
and Birmingham City
Council Millennium projects
© Birmingham Historian,
(October 2001).
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Helen
Lloyd’s experience of recording life-stories
© Birmingham 13 magazine
(December 2009).
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National
Trust’s Memories of Back to Backs
CD
© Oral History Society Journal (Spring
2009).
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Award-winning
website, Diabetes Stories
© Oral History
Society Journal (Autumn 2009).
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Wolverhampton
Grand Theatre’s Grand Memories project
© Oral History Society
Journal (Autumn 2009).
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Charles
Parker Archive (of which Helen is
a Trustee)
© Oral History Society Journal
(Spring 2010).
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Telling
Lives
© Charles Parker Archive Report. (2014)
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Articles
that have used Helen’s interviews
| Ethnicity and consumption:
South Asian food shopping patterns in Britain 1947-75:
quotes interview with Sikh man born in UK. Link. |
| Probabilities and surprises:
A realist approach to identifying linguistic and
social patterns, with reference to an oral history
corpus: based on Birmingham City
Council’s Millennibrum archive (includes
110 life-stories recorded by Helen). Link. |
| Fridge space: journeys of the
domestic refrigerator: quotes interview
with woman who was in service. Link. |
| Re-examining the Battle of
Saltley Gate: quotes interviews with
trade unionists. Link. |
Websites
that include Helen’s work
Diabetes Stories www.diabetes-stories.com
Total website content created by Helen Lloyd. Won
Oxford University’s IT in Teaching and Learning
Award.
Chosen by Wellcome Trust as Research Highlight. 900,000
hits in one year. Helen gave lectures about it all over UK
and in Copenhagen, Boston and San Diego. |
| Oral History Society
website’s Guide to doing oral history in
schools and youth groups was co-authored by
Helen Lloyd and includes audio extracts from her
interviews. |
| Digital Handsworth. http://digitalhandsworth.org.uk/. |
| Grand Memories. www.grandmemories.co.uk
Helen recorded 50 interviews for Wolverhampton Grand
Theatre, and trained young people to record
interviews. Extracts gradually being added to
website. |
| London
Canal Museum. The
London Canal Museum website
includes 21 minute audio feature, edited and
presented by Helen Lloyd, and other interviews
recorded by volunteers and edited by Helen. She
also produced 20 audio installations inside museum. |
| British Library.
100 of Helen’s interviews for her radio series, The
Century Speaks, are in the British Library’s
Millennium Memory Bank. 10 extracts can be
heard on the British Library’s website. (Search
Helen Lloyd) |
| Voices of The Old
Printworks. Memories of people who
worked at Butchers Print Factory recorded by Helen
Lloyd Link |
| Assay Office Birmingham.
The Assay Office website includes
29 interviews with past and present Assay office
staff. |
Museum
installations
| Helen recorded and edited all audio
used in the tour and exhibition room of the National Trust Back to Backs.
She used this audio plus new interviews to make a CD
for the National Trust, Memories of Back to
Backs. |
| Helen made 20 audio installations for
the London
Canal Museum, edited from interviews recorded
by volunteers. She presents further extracts from
interviews on the museum website. |
| Extracts from interviews with
residents of Handsworth, Birmingham, were used in a
temporary exhibition, 'Bygone Brum - Soho
Stories', at Soho House Museum in 2005 |
| In 2013, Helen recorded and edited
memories of former workers from Butchers Print
Factory for an exhibition at The Old Printworks |
Archives
| 100 life-stories recorded for Helen
Lloyd’s BBC radio series, The Century Speaks, are
in British Library Sound Archive’s Millennium
Memory Bank. 10 extracts can be heard on British Library’s website.
(Search Helen Lloyd) |
| Around 80 of The Century
Speaks interviews are in Birmingham Archives
and Heritage |
| 100 life-stories recorded for
award-winning website, Diabetes Stories, are in
British Library Sound Archive and in Oxford Centre
for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism |
| 10 three-hour filmed interviews
conducted by Helen for Association of Jewish Refugees
to be deposited in Wiener Library, Universities of
Leeds and Leicester and Memorial de la Shoah in
Paris |
| 150 life-stories collected for
Birmingham City Council’s Millennibrum project
are in Birmingham Archives and Heritage |
| 50 of Helen’s filmed and audio
interviews for Grand Memories are in
Wolverhampton Archives |
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