This week Thurs to Sat, 'Fed Up!' based in part on #oralhistory Foodbank and Mutual Aid research from the Newcastle Oral History Unit & Collective and Northern Cultural Projects with Newcastle Foodbank, Live Theatre investigates how food poverty affects young people in the North East. Newcastle University
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Newcastle University recently signed a teaching and research agreement with Mustansiriyah University, Iraq, opening exciting new avenues for collaborative oral history projects and research.

Find out more here:
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We have new #oralhistory plans and projects underway or about to start. Keep checking back for more news.

I've just finished a few interviews with BBC radio to mark the 35th anniversary of the Lockerbie Disaster, talking about me and Colin Atkinson's oral history project with first responders based in England. Will share the links for the broadcast once available.

Joe Redmayne has joined Newcastle University’s Oral History Unit and Collective as a researcher to assist Historic England’s ‘Women in Shipbuilding’ project.

Find out more about this project, and his research, including some interesting photographs here..
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Fantastic INSIGHTS Public Lectures | Newcastle University lecture last night
about First Responder memories of the Lockerbie Disaster by Colin Atkinson and Andy Clark Newcastle Oral History Unit & Collective We hope to be able to post a recording of the lecture at a later date, but look out for forthcoming publications.

Braved tonight’s torrential rain to attend INSIGHTS Public Lectures | Newcastle University about First Responder memories of the Lockerbie Disaster. Andy Clark + Colin Atkinson presented memories of those previously omitted from public narratives, police officers + mountain rescue volunteers. Newcastle Oral History Unit & Collective

Andy Clark is giving a public lecture with INSIGHTS Public Lectures | Newcastle University about First Responder Memories of the 1988 Lockerbie Disaster at 5.30pm on Thursday the 7th of December.

Find out more about the lecture and his research here...
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If Musk is about to start charging us all to be here, let me tell you before we all leave that my book is creeping into existence. You can even pre-order it at a not unreasonable price here… bloomsbury.com/uk/radical-act…

Today National Centre for Biological Sciences we have three days of workshops on oral history with contributions from Graham Smith Archives at NCBS and researchers from across India following a MoU with Newcastle University

Ryan Fallon has been offered a Northern Bridge studentship exploring the voice and perspective of the child patient in Stannington Sanatorium.

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Byker revisited by Swedish architects Arne Nilsson, Bengt Ahlqvist, Per Hederus. Showed them the hobby room that will hopefully become our 'Living Archive' and recorded some of their memories of the early days of the redevelopment. Newcastle Oral History Unit & Collective Northern Cultural Projects

'AIDS: The Unheard Tapes', the BBC2 docuseries uniquely displayed HIV/ AIDS oral histories.

Find out more here...

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Niamh Dillon has joined the Newcastle Oral History Collective as Associate Researcher.
Read more about her work here:
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Wendy Rickard has joined the Newcastle Oral History Collective as Associate Researcher.
Read more about her work on HIV/ AIDS oral history, and what she will bring to the collective in the blog post below.

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Oral History and Memory Module (HIS2219) at Newcastle University blogs.ncl.ac.uk/oral-history/2…

Newcastle University's second year 'Oral History and Memory' module offers skills development and unique opportunity for 'teaching led research'.

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PLS RT: Bookings are now open for the Oral History Society's 2023 conference entitled “Making Histories Together” on 23 & 24 June 2023 at Nottingham Trent University Oral History Society NTU Research. Register here: ohs.org.uk/events/confere…

The call for papers is now open for our 2023 conference taking place Dooley's Hotel Waterford June 16-17 on the theme of ‘Oral History: Power and Resistance’. The keynote will be Prof Graham Smith Newcastle University. Proposals due 28 April oralhistorynetworkireland.ie/2023-conference #OralHistory

Narratives from victim communities often align, as researcher Andy Clark found when visiting Syracuse University in New York.

In this blog post he explores overlaps between the Lockerbie disaster and US experiences, held in the Pan Am 103 archives.

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