This week’s selection comes from David Govier, Oral History Archivist. The Second World War saw women take on roles that they had not been expected to undertake before. Women moved from the home into factories, ship yards and pivotal roles in war administration. In one of the earliest recordings used… read more
This week’s selection comes from Lucia Cavorsi, Audio Project Cataloguer. There is no doubt Arturo Toscanini was a one-of-a-kind conductor. Renowned for his mastery, Toscanini was obsessed with the most minute details of a performance. But such a quest for perfection, whose outcome would undoubtedly delight listeners, came at a… read more
This week’s selection comes from Tom Lean, Project Interviewer for An Oral History of British Science. To anyone who grew up in the 1980s the Acorn BBC Microcomputer was the computer they used at school, a machine that gave countless Britons their first experience of computing and sold over 1.5… read more
This week’s selection comes from Niamh Dillon, National Life Stories Project Interviewer. Prue Leith is well known to television viewers of the Great British Menu. She started her career as a chef and restaurateur in London. In this extract from a longer recording with Niamh Dillon for Food: From Source… read more
This week’s selection comes from Holly Gilbert, Cataloguer of Digital Multimedia Collections. Mother and daughter, Jan and Ama, talk about why they both have dreadlocks. This is the first time they have told each other their reasons for choosing to wear their hair in this way and their motivations are… read more