Services
Oral History
Projects and Personal Recordings
- Complete project management
- Individual life-story recordings
Project
Consultancy
- Expert advice for funding bids
- Information about recording equipment
- Guidelines for selection of interviewees
- Examples of consent forms
Training/
Education
- Courses and workshops for young people and adults:
Introduction to Oral History; Interviewing Techniques; Use
of Recording Equipment; Transcribing; Writing Summaries.
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HERE FOR LIST OF PAST PROJECTS
- African Heritage Initiative -
African migrants recorded by adult volunteers
- Africans’ Hidden Memories -
Effects of re-settlement on mental health, recorded by
adults and young people
- Amirah Foundation - Memories of
domestic abuse recorded by adult volunteers
- Bangladeshi Traditional Games -
Memories recorded by adult volunteers
- Bangladeshi Food - Memories
recorded by adult volunteers
- Banner Theatre - Memories of
political theatre group recorded by adult volunteers
- Belbroughton History Society -
Older residents recorded by Society members
- Big Story of Pugin - Memories of
Oscott College seminary recorded by 4 primary schools
- Biddulph East Oral History Public Art Project
- Retired miners recorded by pupils from 3
schools and members of youth club
- Caribbean Seniors - Recorded by
members of church youth group
- Castle Bromwich Youth and Community
Partnership - Memories of a local graveyard
recorded by adult and young volunteers.
- Codsalll Community High School -
Former pupils recorded by sixth-formers
- DESIblitz - Asian journalists
trained to record memories of India’s Partition
- Discover Your Roots - Somali
heritage recorded by adults aged 18 to 25
- Dudley Archives - Stourbridge
workers recorded by professional archivists
- Friends of Moseley Road Baths -
Summary training for ‘Pool of Memories’ project
- GAP Arts - child migrants’
memories recorded by young adults
- Grand Memories - Memories of
Wolverhampton Grand Theatre recorded by young people
aged 10 to 18.
- Groundwork - Silverdale Country
Park heritage recorded by adult volunteers
- Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner -
Memories of mixed race relationships recorded by pupils
of multiple heritage at Aldridge School
- Home Away From Home - Memories of
older Kashmiri women (Go-Woman Alliance) recorded by
younger women
- We Built This City - Irish
labourers recorded by adult volunteers
- Kineton and District Local History Society
- Older residents recorded by Society members
- London Canal Museum - Memories of
canals and ice trade recorded by adult volunteers
- Montgomery Cricket Club - Older
club members recorded by adult and teenage club members
and local primary school
- New Forest Trust - New Forest
commoners recorded by adult volunteers
- Out of Africa - African
footballers recorded by teenagers
- Port Vale Tales - Memories of Port
Vale Football Club recorded by teenagers
- Project Somali - Memories of FGM
recorded by younger women
- Reach Out - Older people in
Nigerian church and local community recorded by young
church members
- Rutherford Dance Co - ‘What
Sexuality is Love?’ - Memories of being gay in 1970s
recorded by students for ballet soundtrack
- Ryton Organic Gardens - ‘Growing
from Your Roots’ - Memories of immigrants along the
Stratford Road in Birmingham recorded by adult
volunteers
- Sampad South Asian Arts - ‘My
Route’ project - Recent immigrants’ memories of growing
vegetables, recorded by garden staff and volunteers
- Second Generation Stories -
Memories of British Indians recorded by adult volunteers
- Shrews Tales - Memories of
Shrewsbury Football Club recorded by teenagers
- Somaliland Soldiers - Memories
recorded by adults and young people
- Stillbirth Stories - Memories
recorded by two producers for radio programme and
website
- Travellers Tales - Memories of
gypsies and travellers recorded by adults
- Voices of the Old Printworks -
Memories of workers at Butcher’s Print Factory recorded
by adult volunteers
- We Have No Bananas Today - Food
memories recorded by Year 5 pupils
- Wolverhampton Central Youth Theatre
- memories of dance halls recorded by young people in
teens and twenties
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Audio
editing and other services
- Audio editing for radio programmes, websites, apps, CDs,
museum installations and exhibitions
- Transcriptions
- Summaries
- Contacts for authors and researchers
Talks and
Lectures
Helen also gives talks to community groups and lectures
for conferences and seminars – see Lectures.
For examples
of Helen’s work, see
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