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 […]
Correspondence of war: translating the Bejach letters
Please note that this post contains content relating the Holocaust. If you are affected by this topic, please be aware of our available support information for students and support services in the community. / One of my current projects is translating the letters held in the Bejach archive, in order to improve accessibility for researchers who lack the language […]
Cataloguing photos relating to World War Two and Leicester – A work in progress
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. […]