Project Blog
We will publish news updates on our work here as the project develops.
When it comes to environmentalism, has the music industry lost its voice? Project Officer Chris Church and Co-investigator Oli Mould look back over 60 years of protest music.
Postdoctoral researcher Saskia Papadakis reflects on her experience of travelling the across the UK to record dozens of oral history interviews for the project.
The OHEM project has a UK-wide remit. When we came to consider Northern Ireland, we quickly realised we would need the guidance and support from colleagues on the ground in order to ensure we could take the unique context of Northern Ireland into account, and to reach people who were not known to us.
The OHEM project team includes environmental activists, academics and in Barbara Brayshay's case, both. Here Barbara, who is a post-doctoral researcher and life-story interviewer on the project, reflects on how her own life story is entwined with recent protest action.
Project Officer Chris Church reflects on the life of The Guardian newspaper’s environment editor John Vidal
How on earth do you create an oral history of the UK environmental movement?
Last month the OHEM team spent three days in Kent learning how to talk to people. it was surprising how much there is to learn!
We are now recruiting for a post-doctoral research assistant to work on our project, principally to conduct and record in-depth interviews with environmentalists across the UK.
An Oral History of the Environmental Movement in the UK, 1970 – 2020
Welcome to the first blog of the OHEM project.
