Digital Video for Oral History
Posted on behalf of Tilly Blyth, Senior Academic Consultant for An Oral History of British Science:Last week the team went to Birmingham Museum Collections Centre to interview Dr Ray Bird in front of...
View ArticleMemories of the First Computer with a Memory
Posted on behalf of Tom Lean, interviewer for 'Made in Britain':It would be an understatement to say that a 15 hour interview with a scientist generates a great deal of very interesting insights:...
View ArticleDogs and the effect of the interviewer
Posted on behalf of Paul Merchant, interviewer for 'A Changing Planet'Arriving to interview one scientist for his first recording session, I quickly learnt that the family dog had been put in the...
View ArticleScience's sense of self
Posted on behalf of Paul Merchant, interviewer for 'A Changing Planet' It would be unwise, for all sorts of intellectual, logical and philosophical reasons, to assume that we know what something called...
View ArticleBuilding Life Stories (And Model Planes)
Posted on behalf of Tom Lean, interviewer for 'Made in Britain':Six months into the project and similarities and common themes between interviews are starting to emerge. Life story interviews start in...
View ArticleThe ghosts of scientists past
Posted on behalf of Dr Katrina Dean.I recently attended the second of a two-day conference on the Royal Society and Science in the Twentieth Century. Several speakers referred to past presidents of the...
View ArticleLife story connections
Science writer and biographer Georgina Ferry was recently interviewed for the international weekly journal of science Nature on writing biography...
View ArticleOHBS in the press
Following from a successful launch on 23 February at the British Library, 'An Oral History of British Science' has also been gathering attention from the press. As well as Dr Katrina Dean's appearance...
View ArticlePreparation for a conversation
Posted on behalf of Tom Lean, interviewer for 'Made in Britain':My research for each interview in Made in Britain begins long before the interview itself starts. By the time an interviewee is selected...
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