Step back into the early 1960s to uncover the emerging Liverpool music scene, Merseybeat. Visit the clubs, venues, and shops that became important meeting places
Tag: Unlocking Our Sound Heritage
Talking Tales
Talking Tales was Theatre by the Lake’s intergenerational oral history project run in partnership with the Friends of Theatre by the Lake. The year long
Sellafield Stories
Interviews with workers, local residents, farmers, and campaigners about the Sellafield nuclear site in West Cumbria
Spencer Leigh radio documentaries
BBC Radio Merseyside documentaries on the Merseybeat era by Spencer Leigh.
Chester Archaeological Society Oral History Project
This oral history collection was created between 1984 and 1986. It contained over 120 interviews of recollections of life in Chester and the surrounding areas
Women’s Lib? “Well, I’m all for it”
Women born at the start of the twentieth century compare the politics of women’s liberation of their youth in the 1930s with the 1960s and 1970s.