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The Alice Hawkins Collection
By Iona Kerstin Volynets 6 September 2025 From July 2009 to June 2010, a team of devoted volunteers at the LeicestHERday Trust gathered 150 interviews of prominent women from Leicestershire. These women ranged from being born in the 1920s to the 1980s and hailed from places as close as Hinckley and as far as Australia […]
Ukrainian History Unearthed in East Midlands Oral History Archive’s Polish Collection
By Iona Kerstin Volynets September 05, 2025 Content warning: This article includes mentions of massacres, war, labour camps, death, and illness. Where are you from? While for some of us, the answer is simple, for others, responding is more complicated. For two of the narrators in the East Midlands Oral History Archive’s Polish Project, the […]
Eight Weeks with Ghost Signs
by Grace McWeeney As part of a Museum Studies 8-week work placement program, I worked with the Ghost Signs Collection at the University of Leicester. These are a few things I learned along the way. Ghost signs are not a new phenomenon. As defined by our collection parameters, a ghost sign is a ‘hand-painted advertisement […]
D-Day in the East Midlands Oral History Archive
The 1980s saw many oral history projects start across the UK. At that point there were plenty of people who had lived through both World War One and World War Two, so many recordings featured memories of these conflicts. While many recordings just cover D-Day as a brief memory, some are detailed accounts of people […]
An Overview of South Asian Collections in EMOHA
Written by Huma Ahmed. Getting the chance to study at the University of Leicester just keeps getting better! As part of my undergraduate degree studying Ancient History and History, I was able to partake in a heritage project to redesign webpages for the East Midlands Oral History Archive, or EMOHA for short. This archive preserves […]
May Day Memories
The East Midlands Oral History Archive (EMOHA) and The University of Leicester Special Collections have launched a new project, ‘Sounds for the Future’. The project is funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund and will run from May 2022 to October 2023 with the objective of preserving, cataloguing and using EMOHA’s existing oral history collections. […]
Grantham Rock!
The East Midlands Oral History Archive (EMOHA) and The University of Leicester Special Collections have launched a new project, ‘Sounds for the Future’. The project is funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund and will run from May 2022 to October 2023 with the objective of preserving, cataloguing and using EMOHA’s existing oral history collections. […]
Leicester Museums Service Recordings
The East Midlands Oral History Archive (EMOHA) and The University of Leicester Special Collections have launched a new project, ‘Sounds for the Future’. The project is funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund and will run from May 2022 to October 2023 with the objective of preserving, cataloguing and using EMOHA’s existing oral history collections. […]
Mapping the City with Electric Paint
In 2019 I attended an Oral History Society networker event at the British Library and was impressed with work that the Library had done with students from the Royal College of Art School of Communication. In particular, a ‘sonic quilt’, created by Karthika Sakthivel, used sensors in the fabric to trigger oral history sound clips […]