East Midlands Oral History Archive
Migration and heritage
Our collections related to South Asian memories are on a separate page. Here, we look at other collections that deal with migration and issues relating to heritage:
Keeping the art of braiding oral history project
This oral history collection comprises eight interviews with people with Black Caribbean heritage discussing the art of hair braiding.
The Crystal Clear Collection
This oral history collection comprises four interviews and one workshop talk. The interviewees describe their childhood experiences, arriving in the UK from the Caribbean, and facing racism. The workshop is about using family history for creative writing.
The Earle Robinson Collection
This collection comprises 10 interviews, mostly broadcast interviews on BBC Radio Leicester. The recordings include a profile of Earle Robinson, a leading member of Leicester's Jamaican community, an edition of the Herdle White radio show, and programmes marking the anniversary of the SS Windrush.
The German POW Collection
This oral history collection comprises 9 interviews, 6 documents, 1 correspondence with relatives of German Prisoners of War and individuals who had contact with German prisoner of war camps in Leicestershire during the 1940s.
Jewish Voices
This oral history collection comprises three interviews recorded in 2008, collecting memories of the Jewish community in Leicester in the 1940s and 1950s. Learn more about the Jewish Voices project.
The Kinoiserie Collection
This oral history collection comprises 24 interviews and 1 document with individuals from the Democratic Republic of Congo, conducted between October 2015 and March 2016. Interviews focus on significant events within Congolese culture including birth, marriage and death and mourning. Interviewees describes the traditions and ceremonies related to these events and the ways in which these traditions have been adapted by individuals of Congolese heritage living in the UK
Leicester Quakers
This oral history collection comprises 10 recordings with people who were interviewed in public at the Friends Meeting House, Leicester, regarding their lives and connection to Quakerism. The audio for this collection is poor quality.
The Lorna Chessum Collection
- Not catalogued
Taped recordings made for Lorna Chessum's book about Leicester's Caribbean community, 'From Immigrants to Ethnic Minority: Making Black Community in Britain' (2000).
Several of the larger collections, such as the Leicester Oral History Archive, the Community History and the EMOHA collections feature recordings with people from a variety of heritage backgrounds. In addition, EMOHA's YouTube channel features a series of videos about people who have migrated into the East Midlands.