Welcome to our Blog
We will publish news updates on our work here as the project develops.
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The Music Industry and the Environmental Movement
16 Oct 2024When 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.
On the road with OHEM: reflections on interviewing environmentalists in the UK
23 Aug 2024Postdoctoral researcher Saskia Papadakis reflects on her experience of travelling the across the UK to record dozens of oral history interviews for the project.
The environmental movement in Northern Ireland
20 May 2024The 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.
Oral Histories and the Entanglements of Knowledge, Memory, and History - Barbara Brayshay
22 Dec 2023The 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.
John Vidal: environmental journalist
10 Nov 2023Project Officer Chris Church reflects on the life of The Guardian newspaper’s environment editor John Vidal
Shaping the plan: consultation workshop
16 May 2023How on earth do you create an oral history of the UK environmental movement?
The ins and outs of oral history interviewing by Chris Church
04 Apr 2023Last month the OHEM team spent three days in Kent learning how to talk to people. it was surprising how much there is to learn!
What’s it like to be a post-doc researcher?
07 Nov 2022We 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.
Get to Know Dr Toby Butler
10 Oct 2022An Oral History of the Environmental Movement in the UK, 1970 – 2020
The birth of an oral history project of the environmental movement
06 Oct 2022Welcome to the first blog of the OHEM project.
