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Oral History Workshop V
Thursday 3rd December 2009 at 4.30-6.30pm
Bishopsgate Institute
This informal meeting will begin with the following talks:
Memoryscape: experiments in using oral history to explore our sense of place by Toby Butler
For several years Toby Butler has been experimenting with new ways to historically interpret places using oral history. He has created a number of online and multi-media walking trails that use oral history and sound recordings to explore the cultural history of London (see memoryscape.org.uk to try the free trails). In this talk he will discuss some of his most recent work concerned with communities surrounding the Royal Docks and Victoria Park in East London.
Toby Butler is a history lecturer at the University of East London. He has research interests in 20th century history and published work in the fields of public history, digital heritage, cultural geography, oral history and museum studies.
Between the Locks by Fiona Cosson
Between the Locks is an oral history project to record the lives of people who made their living from the river and the heritage of the Thames river community, bounded by the locks at Richmond and Teddington, centred on Twickenham and Eel Pie Island.
The project is bringing together school students from Christ’s School in Richmond with elders of the river community. As well as recording the elders’ voices, the students are carrying out some of the practical activities of boatbuilding, lock-keeping, riverbank management and other skills. Sound and video recordings of the project will be made available to schools, libraries and community centres via DVD and the internet and a travelling exhibition will ensure that the stories are shared with the local community. The project is supported by funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund and Hampton Fuel Allotment Charity.
Informal group discussion afterwards from speakers and the floor will facilitate:
- finding out what’s happening in oral history projects and local projects.
- discussing possible new directions in oral history.
- meeting activists/organisers from a wide range of history projects.
- considering future co-ordination and collaboration of projects.
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Best wishes,
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