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Young people said they wanted to make a short film about the pandemic, so we have been working with students from The Big Creative to film interviews with some of our oral history contributors. Due to lack of archive footage around the 1918 pandemic, we will be using...

Our dedicated team of volunteers have now completed their oral history training and are ready and eager to start interviewing. The training was run by Rib Davis, who is affiliated to the Oral History Society. They learnt about a wide range of techniques, from...

When Britain went into national lockdown in March 2020, it was not only dealing with a health crisis, but a social one too. Stories of doctors and nurses battling on the frontline are numerous, but what happened more quietly in communities is less well documented....

We’re recruiting a team of volunteers to collect oral history interviews as part of our project Beyond Medicine: a social history of women and pandemics. You will receive training from the Oral History Society, before interviewing women who supported their...

Back in 1918, it wasn't a small group of conspiracy theorists denying there was pandemic. Almost everyone in Britain refused to acknowledge one of the worst outbreaks of influenza the world has ever seen. This collective silence makes uncovering the truth a huge...

On 10th November, four students from Leyton 6th Form College came together as part of the Beyond Medicine steering group, to help shape the direction of the project. They had already met before funding was granted to say what would interest them, giving ideas such as...