Oral History and Sound Heritage Conference – Philippa Lewis

At the beginning of July I attended the ‘Oral History and Sound Heritage Conference’ hosted by University of Leicester Library.

University of Leicester (image courtesy of University of Leicester).

Although presented by CILIP (Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals) Local Studies Group, the conference was intended as an opportunity for those working with oral history and sound collections across libraries, museums and archives to get together and share their experience.

I was keen to attend this conference having conducted a number of oral history interviews as part of my role as Project Archivist for the ‘Working Together’ project based at the National Co-operative Archive in Manchester. This project aims to capture and preserve the heritage of the workers’ co-operative movement 1970s-1990s, with a key part of this focusing on recording the memories and experiences of individuals involved in the movement. As this was my first time working…