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Oral history

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Britain and the Refugee Crisis, 1933-1947

 Fonds
Reference code: 487
Scope and Contents Audiotapes and transcripts of interviews with mostly Jewish refugees and internees in Britain of the Nazi and World War II era. Interviews are undated but were conducted prior to 1980 and relate to the period 1933-1947.The collection consists of 168 cassettes tapes of interviews with 77 individuals (both men and women), and transcripts of 41 of those interviews. Those interviewed are mainly Jewish refugees (including individuals of mixed race or Jewish extraction), though a...
Dates: [1979]

Changing Identities: Eastern Europeans in Bradford since 1945

 Fonds
Reference code: 497
Scope and Contents

This archive consists of audio cassette tape recordings, with some transcripts, of interviews with members of the ethnic Ukrainian community in Bradford in the 1990s, regarding their personal histories. Interviewees include family groups, family members of some of the people interviewed earlier, and younger people born in the UK of immigrant parents. In contrast to the earlier work of the 1980s, more than half the interviewees are women.

Dates: 1983 - 1998

Palliative Care Oral History Project Archive

 Fonds
Reference code: 462
Scope and Contents

Interviews recorded with 87 people using palliative care services between 2007 and 2016. Each interview has an accompanying summary document and some have full transcripts.

Dates: 2007 - 2016

Sheffield Voices Project

 Fonds
Reference code: 430
Scope and Contents

Recordings of interviews, and associated interview notes, from the project 'Sheffield Voices Through Time'.

For further details of the project, please see the External Documents below.

Dates: 2011

Theatre Archive Project: Archive

 Fonds
Reference code: 349
Scope and Contents

The archive at Sheffield contains 170 CD-ROMs of interviews with theatre workers and audience members, including Glenda Jackson, Brian Rix, Susan Engel and Michael Frayn. There is also a collection of copies of correspondence between Gyorgy Lengyel and Michel and Suria Saint Denis, and between Gyorgy Lengyel and Sir John Gielgud, dating from 1958 to 1999.

Dates: 1958 - 2008

Unfinished Histories Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: 395
Scope and Contents

A collection of CDs and DVDs recording interviews with those involved with the alternative theatre movement in the late 1960s, 1970s and early 1980s, along with related material.

Dates: 2007 - 2017