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Description: | The Museum's audio visual archive was established in 1992 and remains one of the few specialist oral history museum collections in the country. There are 4,000 hours of interviews, which fall into 3 categories.
Working Life
300 hours of interviews recorded during the 1980s and largely covering trade and manufacturing.
London History Workshop Collection
3000 hours of taped interviews recorded by the London History Workshop Centre between 1982 and 1990; includes interviews by famous History Workshop historians such as Raphael Samuel and Gerry White. It also includes all the audio interviews made by London Weekend Television for its series The Making of Modern London.
General Museum of London recordings
Interviews conducted as part of Museum projects, notably the Peopling of London project, relating to immigration and the Voices project, relating to London's multicultural character. Other subjects covered include the Second World War, taxi drivers, the 1945 election, Chinese women in London, teenagers.
Film and video
Film is not actively collected although the collection includes some home movies. Videos add supporting information to objects in the collection. | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | FAX: | +44 (0)870 444 3853 | Telephone: | +44 (0)870 444 3852 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:5328 | Go to resource |
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