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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 […]