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Oral History Consultant Helen Lloyd is based in Birmingham, U.K. She works nationwide, alone or with associates, to provide:
  • Oral history interviews and life-story recordings
  • Audio editing and text for websites and exhibitions
  • Oral history project management
  • Advice for funding bids
  • Training in recording and interviewing techniques
  • Talks on oral history
  • Contacts for radio, TV and press

Everyone has a story worth recording

Helen Lloyd’s clients have included the BBC, the National Trust, Oxford University, Birmingham City Council, the Countryside Agency, the Criminal Cases Review Commission, the Association of Jewish Refugees, community groups and individuals. Her oral history radio series, “The Century Speaks”, won the Commission for Racial Equality’s “Race in the Media Award”. She produced the website, www.diabetes-stories.com, which has won Oxford University's 'IT in Teaching and Learning Award' and been chosen by the Wellcome Trust as a 'Research Highlight'

Contact:
info@oralhistoryconsultancy.co.uk

Whether you’re an organisation planning an oral history project or an individual wanting to record family memories, Helen Lloyd and her associates can provide advice and training or undertake an entire project.

 
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Click on audio icons below to hear memories of:

The arrival of the wounded from Dunkirk in 1940, witnessed by a hospital ward cleaner (BBC WM)

How factory workers reacted to a man who came from St Kitts in 1958 (National Trust)

First experiences of personal computers, described by a 14-year-old in 2000 (Birmingham City Council)

 

Audio extracts from Helen Lloyd’s recordings are used by kind permission of the interviewees and of the organisations for which they were recorded. Those organisations (credited in italics) retain the copyright.

Photos taken by Helen Lloyd appear by kind permission of her interviewees and of Birmingham Central Library. The Library retains the copyright.