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From disc to digital: MiniDisc transfer

16th April 2020 North West Sound Heritage

Tens of thousands of reel-to-reel tapes and cassettes crowd the tall shelves of the Greater Manchester sound archive, held in the basement of the Manchester

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World war and its repercussions for the ordinary person in the North West

3rd February 2020 Vicki Caren

‘They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old. Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down

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English Voices, Asian Stories

29th January 2020 North West Sound Heritage

Asian women with children, Fallowfield, Platt Lane, 1983 ref. m22637 In 2005 the Tameside Oral History Project was launched in an effort to record the

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The Housewives of Wythenshawe

22nd January 2020 Vicki Caren

The Housewives of Wythenshawe: A History of Political Involvement and the Power of Local Campaigns m65238: Benchill School, Wythenshawe, Manchester 1967 The school at which

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The Sound of Protest

11th June 2019 North West Sound Heritage

Oral histories are interviews with people talking about their memories of things that have happened in their life. They can be about particular events or

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Voices in the Crowd

31st May 2019 North West Sound Heritage

BBC Radio Manchester began broadcasting almost 50 years ago and at that time it was the biggest local radio station in the country. One of

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  • Jacqui and Bridie sing A Child of Merseyside
  • Syd Boxer remembers volunteering to come to England from Jamaica in 1942

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David Allison follows the largest protest ever in Manchester against Clause 28 in February 1988

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