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Oral History

Everyone has a story to tell – it’s just that sometimes they need someone to help them tell it.”

Clare is an oral historian, and a regional organizer for the Oral History Society. She has written and edited a number of books based on oral testimony, including A Passion for Priests (Hodder Headline, 1996), about women’s relationships with Roman Catholic priests; and Relative Grief, a book of interviews based around bereavement, which she co-authored with her Radio 4 colleague Judy Merry (Jessica Kingsley, 2005).

She is currently Visiting Fellow in Oral History at the University of Huddersfield, where she is helping to co-ordinate two major oral history projects: Asian Voices, and Northern Voices. She also works runs courses training people in how to 'do' oral history, including interview skills, what recording equipment to use, how to edit audio on computer - see Voxpopsoralhistory.co.uk

Janet’s radio work also establishes her as a collector of oral testimony. In 2002, she produced an Archive Hour for BBC Radio 4 – Daughters of the Radical Suffragists – based on the work of historian Jill Liddington, which shed light on the role of working-class women in the fight for Votes for Women.

As committed collectors of people’s life experiences, we work with both individuals and organizations to record their stories. We can conduct interviews for your group, company or organization, edit them, and create compilation CDs for distribution among your employees, members or clients, to help promote your work, area of interest, or organization - literally to give a voice to your website!