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We will publish news updates on our work here as the project develops.

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The environmental movement in Northern Ireland

20 May 2024

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.

Oral Histories and the Entanglements of Knowledge, Memory, and History - Barbara Brayshay

22 Dec 2023

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.

John Vidal: environmental journalist

10 Nov 2023

Project Officer Chris Church reflects on the life of The Guardian newspaper’s environment editor John Vidal

Shaping the plan: consultation workshop

16 May 2023

How 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 2023

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!

What’s it like to be a post-doc researcher?

07 Nov 2022

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.

Get to Know Dr Toby Butler

10 Oct 2022

An Oral History of the Environmental Movement in the UK, 1970 – 2020

The birth of an oral history project of the environmental movement

06 Oct 2022

Welcome to the first blog of the OHEM project.