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- Affective Digital Histories
- Arqueotex collection
- BBC Radio Leicester Archive
- Belgrave Memories
- British United People
- Calver Weir Archive
- The Clive Harrison collection
- The David Wood Collection
- Dunton Bassett Local History Society Collection
- The Earle Robinson collection
- em: source collection
- The EMOHA collection
- Ethnic Elders collection
- Evacuees collection
- Fox Hunting collection
- Guru Nanak Sikh collection
- Leicester City Museums collection
- Leicester Community History collection
- Leicestershire Regiment collection
- Leicester Oral History Archive collection
- Mantle Oral History collection
- Harborough Museum collection
- Maurice Ennals collection
- Mines of Memory Collection
- Natural Heroes
- Poshak Puralekh
- The Rhianydd Murray collection
- Saffron Past and Present collection
- Semper Eadem collection
- Taking Part collection
- Talking about Technology collection
- Textile Tales
- Thornton collection
- Tracking our Heritage
- Walnut Street collection
- Wathes collection
- Westfield Hinckley collection
East Midlands Oral History Archive
Natural Heroes
Physical detail
- Number of items in the collection: 36 items
- Venues where material can be listened to: Record Office, digitised copies of interviews available to listen to at EMOHA
- Media available on: CD, digital files
Collection history
This collection was created in 2007/8 as part of Leicestershire County Council's Community Heritage Initiative. Natural Historians were interviewed with the idea of collecting information about the county's natural history collectors; when an archive holds specimens, manuscripts, notebooks, photographs etc. it is important to know something about the people who collected these things.
What the collection contains
The 36 interviewees vary from photographers and sound recorders through experts on animals and plants, to farmers trying to conserve natural history on their farms, to people who have been instrumental in organising societies and associations. Subjects covered were family, education, career, associates, natural history, achievements, and archives. One of the recordings is of celebrated local naturalist Jack Otter (d. 2003), and was donated to the collection by friends.