East Midlands Oral History Archive
National oral history resources
- Archived BBC Collections:
- The British Entertainment History Project is building and preserving what is now the UK's largest oral history collection of interviews with professionals from across the film, television, radio and theatre industries.
- 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 (not currently available in August 2024 due to cyber attack)
- Diabetes Stories. Life stories from the Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism.
- 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.
- 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.
- Suez Oral History Project at King's College, London
- 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.