Undergraduate Research Assistant Role !
The Caring Communities project is recruiting a Newcastle UG student for an 8-week summer job June-July 2026.
Please share with any students you feel may be suitable, and contact Dr Kate Wilson for more information.
Applications are due 23 April!
🗂️New Blog:
Before Easter, members of the Collective enjoyed a day brainstorming, strategising, and sharing ideas to the backdrop of sunshine (and hail!) on a North Sea beach, where shared perspectives and ideas for the future were set out.
Read more at The Lug: blogs.ncl.ac.uk/oral-history...
‼️ Call for Papers ‼️
UKRI-funded Caring Communities project, led by Dr Claudia Soares, is taking applications for its first conference: Rethinking Histories of Care, Class, and Kinship 1800–Present, 3-4 Sep 2026.
Applications due 10 April. For details, see: caringcommunities.co.uk/conference/
Collective Researcher @joeredmayne.bsky.social is giving a talk entitled Chopwell: From the Miners' Lockout to the General Strike, 1925-'26 in Chopwell THIS FRIDAY 13th March!
There are only a handful of (free!) tickets left - don't miss out!
Get tickets: ticketsource.com/booking/sele...
Collective researcher Dr Wendy Rickard presents to
@britishlibrary.bsky.social staff tomorrow alongside their Oral History Curators Mary Stewart and Madeline White!
They will reflect on BBC documentary Aids: The Unheard Tapes (2022) and oral histories it uses, held at the British Library.
New Video! 📽️
Collective researcher @silviefisch.bsky.social discusses the Byker Community Archive, the history of the Estate, and the work being done to transform the space in the near future! 📃
Watch on the OHC YouTube channel here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTEw...
#oralhistory #byker
🗂️New Blog:
Introducing Dr Sally Watson as Research & Innovation Associate at the Collective!
📖Read more about Sally's project work with the Oral History Collective on our blog, The Lug: blogs.ncl.ac.uk/oral-history...
We are pleased to share that Oral History in Iraq entered the top 10 for sales of Arabic-language history books in late 2025! 📈
The guide was written by Dr Alaa Alameri of Mustansiriyah University, with Collective guidance. 📙
#oralhistory #highereducation #iraq
blogs.ncl.ac.uk/oral-history...
We are pleased to share that Oral History in Iraq entered the top 10 for sales of Arabic-language history books in late 2025! 📈
The guide was written by Dr Alaa Alameri of Mustansiriyah University, with Collective guidance. 📙
#oralhistory #highereducation #iraq
blogs.ncl.ac.uk/oral-history...
CfP: The British General Strike of 1926: New Directions of Research, 7-8 May 2026 @newcastleuni.bsky.social
Deadline: 6 February 2026
More details:
@sslh.bsky.social
sslh.org.uk/2025/10/13/c...
sslh.org.uk/wp-content/u...
Kindly supported by @leverhulme.ac.uk
#GeneralStrike1926 #GeneralStrike100
🗂️New Blog:
Professors Alaa Alameri & Graham Smith are bringing oral history teaching into Iraqi universities, having co-created an Arabic oral history guide.
📖Read more: blogs.ncl.ac.uk/oral-history...
#OralHistory #HigherEducation #Iraq
📝 Former nurses revisit Newcastle General Hospital - now set to become a Health Innovation Neighbourhood.
Part of the NGH Community History project by Northern Cultural Projects & Newcastle University Engagement & Place.
📽️ Learn more: blogs.ncl.ac.uk/oral-history...
#OralHistory
🌎Dr Wendy Rickard has been awarded a Daphne Jackson Fellowship for her project on global HIV oral histories. Her research will uncover how the HIV pandemic is remembered and recorded globally.
📖Read the blog: blogs.ncl.ac.uk/oral-history...
#OralHistory #DaphneJacksonFellowship
📢The Glasgow Housing Struggle Archive (GHSA) is launching an education programme (Feb–May 2025) at the Glasgow Zine Library. 🎓📜
Learn how it is documenting housing struggles & providing training in historical skills.
📖 Read more: blogs.ncl.ac.uk/oral-history...
#OralHistory
The UK’s children’s social care system has long faced challenges—from rising demand to quality concerns.
🔎Caring Communities: Rethinking Children’s Social Care explores its history to shape the future
📖 Read more: blogs.ncl.ac.uk/oral-history...
#SocialCare #HistoryOfCare #OralHistory
🏘️The Byker Estate in Newcastle: an international icon of pioneering urban regeneration. Discover how dedicated individuals are preserving its human stories for future generations.
📖Read more: blogs.ncl.ac.uk/oral-history...
#OralHistory #BykerEstate #UrbanRegeneration #BykerStories
Last summer, Ed Garnett the new Communications Intern for the Collective spent a month at the Srebrenica Memorial Center Potočari. Here Ed writes about the Center’s oral history work and its significance to remembering genocide.
Check out the post: blogs.ncl.ac.uk/oral-history...
#Oralhistory of Lockerbie first responders from @ohcollective
Andy Clark and UoWS Colin Atkinson.