British Library of Political & Economic Science

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10 Portugal Street
London
WC2A 2HD
United Kingdom
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Collection name: LSE Oral History; Subjects: Oral History: Oral history interviews organised by the LSE History Project for the School Centenary History or collected by the Project. Later oral histories have been added to the series; items: 17 Compact Cassette, 3 Mini Compact Caseetes; 6 x DVD-R. Collection name: Summerskill, Edith Clara (1901-1980), Baroness Summerskill, politician and Summerskill, Michael Brynmor (1927-1994), barrister and marine insurer; Subjects: Oral History: Audiotapes of interviews conducted by Edith's son, Michael Summerskill, for his biography of her. Interviewees include Tony Benn, Michael Foot and Denis Healy; items: 20 Compact Cassette, 6 Steno-Cassettes. Collection name: St Mungo's Oral History Archive; Subjects: Oral History: 16 CDs containing recordings of interviews (WAV audio files), interviews transcripts (MS Word files) and thematic analysis (MS Word files) for the St Mungo's Oral History project, which documents the experiences and stories of people marginalised in society - voices which are otherwise not heard. Interviewees were aged between 23 and 71 and were drawn from ten of St Mungo's housing projects across seven London boroughs; items: 16 Audio CD-R. Collection name: Oral Evidence on the Suffragette and Suffragist Movements: the Brian Harrison interviews; Subjects: Oral History: Interviews conducted by historian Brian Harrison in order to supplement documentary sources on the Edwardian women’s suffrage movement in Britain. Interviews were conducted with surviving Edwardian women's movement campaigners, their sons, daughters, relatives and employees. During the course of the project the chronological scope was widened to include those active in the women’s movement after women’s enfranchisement. Thematically the scope was also widened to encompass those who were active in various women’s organisations, including international and religious organisations, and to cover themes including women’s employment and birth control. 205 interviews with 183 individuals were completed. In addition there is an interview of Brian Harrison in conversation with Inderbir Bhullar, Information Librarian at The Women's Library, 28 Aug 2012, talking principally about his oral history of the suffrage movement project; items: 80 Open Reel Tape, 106 Compact Cassette, 2 Audio CD-R, 820 Digital Audio Files, 82 x VHS. Collection name: British Oral Archive of Political and Administrative History; Subjects: Oral History: Tapes and transcripts of interviews with leading British civil servants and administrators collected for the purposes of the British Oral Archive of Political and Administrative History (BOAPAH) project, 1980. The subject matter of the interviews covers the period from 1920 to 1980, and includes details of the lives and work of the interviewees; items: 48 Compact Cassette. Collection name: Second Russian Revolution; Subjects: Oral History: Audio tapes of interviews with leading personalities in the USSR conducted for the television series 'Second Russian Revolution'; items: 134 Compact Cassette. Collection name: Records of ‘Out of the Dolls House’; Subjects: Oral History: Audio recordings of interviews conducted for the television programme 'Out of the Dolls House'. The interviews were gathered according to eight themes: Health - Mustn't Grumble; Image; Education - Just a Girl; Her Indoors; Work - Jobs for the Girls; Love; Politics; and Motherhood; items: 151 Compact Cassette. Collection name: Beauty Queens; Subjects: Oral History: Interviews with competitors and organisers, commissioned for the exhibition 'Beauty Queens' at TWL in Autumn 2004. Interviewer was Alice Beard; items: 7 Compact Cassette. Collection name: Football Fans & Prostitution: World Cup 2006 Interviews; Subjects: Oral History: 30 short interviews (up to 5 minutes each on 2 MiniDisks) on attitudes re: prostitution in Germany at the World Cup; items:. Collection name: Shehadi Oral History; Subjects: Oral History: Tapes and transcripts of interviews with economists conducted by postgraduate Nadim Shehadi in the early 1980s for his research on the development of economics at LSE in the inter-war period (1919-1939); items: 11 Compact Cassette. Collection name: Records of Catholic Women's Ordination; Subjects: Radio: Audiovisual material consisting of audio cassettes of radio broadcasts relating to women priests and video cassettes ‘Women Priests’; items: 9 Compact Cassette. Collection name: The Boni Sones Archive of Women's Parliamentary Radio and Parliamentary Radio broadcasts; Subjects: Radio; Documentary & News: Archive of Women's Parliamentary Radio, an online broadcast service run by Boni Sones. Contains audio files of interviews with female MPs. Also recent material from parliamentaryradio.com, also run by Sones, and various other works produced by Sones; items:. Collection name: Faulds; Andrew Matthew William (1923-2000); politician and actor; Subjects: Speeches & Events: Audiotapes of Faulds's speeches, mostly in the House of Commons and the Council of Europe; items: 42 Compact Cassette,
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