National oral history resources
- BBC Collections:
- The British Cinema History Research Project at the University of East Anglia.
- The British Diplomatic Oral History Programme established with the approval and co-operation of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) creates a valuable new body of research material for the study of British diplomatic history.
- The British Film Institute's Screen Online website has interviews with major figures in the British film industry.
- The British Hinduism Oral History project
- British Library Sounds
- Diabetes Stories. Life stories from the Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism.
- Edwardians Online. A web-based multimedia, digital resource based on a set of 444 life history interviews. The collection is known as Family Life and Work Experience Before 1918 and you will have to search for this on the catalogue.
- Historical Voices. Developing a rich set of online exhibits and educational curricula which utilise audio files as a historical source.
- Imperial War Museum oral history collection.
- Living Stories. The Living Stories website has been created as part of the Haemophilia and HIV Life History project; a collection of 30 interviews. This website focuses on the life histories of eight of those people and presents key themes that emerge from the interviews using edited audio extracts.
- ‘Oral History in the UK’ collection on the UK Web Archive.
- Recollections of WW2 is a directory of oral history holdings in the UK which contain information about the Second World War.
- The Royal Voluntary Service's 'Voices of Volunteering' project has many oral history clips as part of resources for schools about volunteering.
- Scott Polar Research Institute: a small-scale programme of interviews with explorers, scientists, missionaries and others working in the Arctic and Antarctic.
- Sea Your History: The history of the Royal Navy in the 20th century.
- Sisterhood and After: The Women's Liberation Oral History Project documented the memories of the women who powered the women's liberation movement in the UK.
- Speaking for Ourselves: An oral history of people with cerebral palsy. Conducted by Scope.
- Suez Oral History Project at King's College, London
- Theatre Archive Project: The website accompanies a major project to re-investigate British theatre history 1945-1968, from the perspectives of both the theatregoer and the practitioner. The Project Team includes staff from both the British Library and the University of Sheffield.
- Therapeutic Living with Other People's Children: an oral history of residential therapeutic child care in the UK c.1930 - c.1980
- Travellers Remember: Digital stories told by travellers. From the Rural Media Company in the West Midlands.
- Up and Under - the Rugby League Oral History Project. Funded by an £85,000 grant from the University of Huddersfield which develops the University’s links with both the sport and the communities of West Yorkshire in which it is played by providing a substantial boost to the promotion of Rugby League heritage.
- Voices of Post War England is an oral history blog which looks at working class history in England.
- The Workers' War: Home Front Recalled: recording and commemorating the role played by trade unions and workers on the Home Front in the UK during the Second World War.