Oral History

'A Funny Farm' by Cooltan Arts aims to give a grassroots voice to those using or involved with mental health services providing each other with support, advice and sharing experiences, it will also be a creative place, where you can put drawings, paintings, photographs, creative writing, music and spoken word poetry.

DIPEx shows you a wide variety of personal experiences of health and illness. You can watch, listen to or read their interviews, find reliable information on treatment choices and where to find support.

The site covers cancers, heart disease, mental health, neurological conditions, screening programmes, pregnancy, teenage health, chronic illnesses and many others.

Oral history project by the Museum of London. Mainly text based, London’s Voices explores, reflects and celebrates London’s great diversity through the voices, memories and opinions of Londoners. It opens up the Museum of London’s rich oral history collection.

National Life Stories (formerly National Life Story Collection (NLSC)) was established in 1987 to 'record first-hand experiences of as wide a cross-section of present-day society as possible'. As an independent charitable trust within the Oral History Section of the British Library Sound Archive, NLS's key focus and expertise has been oral history fieldwork.

The Refugee Community History Project has collected the previously untold stories of refugees who have settled in London since 1951 in order to highlight the enormous contributions they make to the city.

This major initiative to record refugees' first hand experiences for current and future generations to explore ran from June 2004 to April 2007. Over 150 refugees from 15 different groups have taken part. This web site contains sections -- both audio and text -- of those refugees' stories.

Refugees flee to foreign countries, like the UK, because of persecution in their home country, or because of a well-founded fear of persecution. This may be because of a refugee's race, religion, nationality, social group, political opinion, or as a result of war.

The project won the 2006 Charity Award for arts, culture and heritage.

The interviews collected by the project are archived at the Museum of London and constitute an extraordinary and unrivalled collection of testimony based material on the subject of refugees in the UK, they also formed the basis of the major exhibition Belonging which ran from November 2006 to February 2007. In addition the project has produced a variety of educational resources based upon the material collected including CD ROMs, a short film collection and a mobile exhibition. These are available free of charge.

Evelyn Oldfield Unit's oral history project on refugees life in London. The Refugee Community History Project has collected the previously untold stories of refugees who have settled in London since 1951 in order to highlight the enormous contributions they make to the city.
Audio and texts available on the website.

Scottish oral history Group. The wesbite is still in the making, but will give you a few ideas of what they are up to, including a link to their latest newsletter.

Speaking for Ourselves is a two-year oral history project to communicate the living heritage of disabled people to a wider audience.

Culture24 was established as the 24 Hour Museum in 1999 as a partnership project between MDA and the Campaign for Museums

US American oral history project, with lots of projects and information on starting or contributing your own oral history project.