Publications
Helen Lloyd recorded 100 life-stories for the BBC Millennium oral history project, The Century Speaks, & made a series of 16 radio programmes, which won the Commission for Racial Equality’s Race in the Media Award in 2000. Since then, she has recorded hundreds of life-stories for many organisations & made these accessible through…
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Books & pamphlets
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| 1. Birmingham Voices (Tempus, 1999): Selection from life-stories recorded for BBC series, The Century Speaks |
| 2. Britain 1914-2000 (Collins Educational, 2000): includes extracts from life-stories of immigrants |
| 3. Through the Keyhole of Islam (Birmingham City Council, 2002): pamphlet includes extracts from life-stories of Muslims |
| 4.On Journeys (Heinemann Library, 2002): children’s book, in series What was it like in the past? Includes extract from interview about journey to UK on Empire Windrush |
| 5.At Home (Heinemann Library, 2002): children’s book, in series What was it like in the past? Includes extract from interview about poor housing |
| 6.Diabetes: the Facts (Oxford University Press, 2008): includes interview extracts from www.diabetes-stories.com |
| 7.Understanding Health & Social Care (Sage, 2008): includes interview extract from www.diabetes-stories.com |
| 8.(a) Grand Memories (Wolverhampton Grand Theatre, 2009): memories of theatre-workers & theatregoers in brochure with DVD enclosed |
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DVD, CDs & cassettes
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| 8. (b) Grand Memories DVD (Wolverhampton Grand Theatre, 2009): interviews filmed for Wolverhampton Grand Theatre (sold with brochure) |
| 9. The Century Speaks boxed set of 8 cassettes (BBC, 2000): complete 16-part radio series, produced by Helen Lloyd |
| 10. Criminal Cases Review Commission cassette (2001): victims of miscarriages of justice, recorded, edited & presented by Helen Lloyd. Sent to every prison in the country |
| 11. (a) & (b) Food Stories CD (British Library, 2007): includes extract from BBC Millennium Memory Bank interview |
| 12.(a, (b) & (c) Memories of Back to Backs CD (National Trust, 2008): memories of poor housing, recorded & edited by Helen - who also produced all audio used on National Trust’s Back to Backs tour |
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Articles by Helen Lloyd
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| Five articles about award-winning Diabetes Stories website |
BBC & Birmingham City Council Millennium projects
13 (a) & (b). © Birmingham Historian, (October 2001).
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Helen Lloyd’s experience of recording life-stories
14. © Birmingham 13 magazine (December 2009).
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National Trust’s Memories of Back to Backs CD
15. © Oral History Society Journal (Spring 2009).
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Award-winning website, Diabetes Stories
16 (a) & (b). © Oral History Society Journal (Autumn 2009).
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Wolverhampton Grand Theatre’s Grand Memories project
17. Oral History Society Journal (Autumn 2009).
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Charles Parker Archive (of which Helen is a Trustee)
18 (a), (b) & (c). Oral History Society Journal (Spring 2010).
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Articles that have used Helen’s interviews
| Ethnicity & consumption: South Asian food shopping patterns in Britain 1947-75: quotes interview with Sikh man born in UK. Link. |
| Probabilities & surprises: A realist approach to identifying linguistic & social patterns, with reference to an oral history corpus: based on Birmingham City Council’s Millennibrum archive (includes 110 life-stories recorded by Helen). Link. |
| Fridge space: journeys of the domestic refrigerator: quotes interview with woman who was in service. Link. |
Websites that include Helen’s interviews
Diabetes Stories www.diabetes-stories.com Total website content created by Helen Lloyd. Won Oxford University’s IT in Teaching & Learning Award.
Chosen by Wellcome Trust as Research Highlight. 900,000 hits in one year. Helen gave lectures about it all over UK & in Copenhagen, Boston & San Diego. |
| Digital Handsworth. www.digitalhandsworth.org.uk. |
| Grand Memories. www.grandmemories.co.uk Helen recorded 50 interviews for Wolverhampton Grand Theatre, & trained young people to record interviews. Extracts gradually being added to website. |
| London Canal Museum. The London Canal Museum website includes 21 minute audio feature, edited & presented by Helen Lloyd, & other interviews recorded by volunteers & edited by Helen. She also produced 20 audio installations inside museum. |
| British Library. 100 of Helen’s interviews for her radio series, The Century Speaks, are in the British Library’s Millennium Memory Bank. 10 extracts can be heard on the British Library’s website |
| Birmingham City Council website. Includes quotations about police, criminal justice & race, from five interviews recorded by Helen Lloyd: Link |
| Connecting Histories. Includes part of transcript of interview about contrast between Jamaica & UK: Link |
Museum installations
| Helen recorded & edited all audio used in the tour & exhibition room of the National Trust Back to Backs. She used this audio plus new interviews to make a CD for the National Trust, Memories of Back to Backs. |
| Helen made 20 audio installations for the London Canal Museum, edited from interviews recorded by volunteers. She presents further extracts from interviews on the museum website. |
| Extracts from interviews with residents of Handsworth, Birmingham, were used in a temporary exhibition, 'Bygone Brum - Soho Stories', at Soho House Museum in 2005 |
Archives
| 100 life-stories recorded for Helen Lloyd’s BBC radio series, The Century Speaks, are in British Library Sound Archive’s Millennium Memory Bank. 10 extracts can be heard on British Library’s website |
| Around 80 of The Century Speaks interviews are in Birmingham Archives & Heritage |
| 100 life-stories recorded for award-winning website, Diabetes Stories, are in British Library Sound Archive & in Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology & Metabolism |
| 10 three-hour filmed interviews conducted by Helen for Association of Jewish Refugees to be deposited in Wiener Library, Universities of Leeds & Leicester & Memorial de la Shoah in Paris |
| 150 life-stories collected for Birmingham City Council’s Millennibrum project are in Birmingham Archives & Heritage |
| 50 of Helen’s filmed & audio interviews for Grand Memories soon to be in Wolverhampton Archives |
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