Oral history of the facts of life

National Life Stories was established in with the mission to record and preserve a wide range of voices through in-depth biographical accounts, to make them available and inspire their use. As an independent charitable trust within the Oral History section of the British Library, our expertise is oral history fieldwork with a focus on the long life story methodology.

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For over 30 years we have run a series of innovative interviewing programmes funded almost entirely from sponsorship, charitable and individual donations and voluntary effort. In addition to running its own interviewing programmes, National Life Stories conducts commissioned histories that fit its collection aims and works in partnership to archive oral history projects from around the UK at the British Library.

NLS also jointly runs a highly successful training programme in partnership with the Oral History Society. Oral Historian and Researcher Paul Merchant Renewing biodiversity through a people-in-nature approach. The NLS team works to support interview collection and documentation for these groups, and the experiences of our partners further develops our key methodologies.

NLS welcomes partnerships run by academic colleagues, community practitioners and heritage groups.

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Most partnerships are agreed when a project is applying for funding, so that NLS can help assess whether the project is a good fit for the proposed initiative. Please contact nls bl. When approaching us about a potential partnership, it is helpful if you can provide as much of the following information as possible:. Current ongoing partnerships include Why Me?

If you are interested in working with National Life Stories to document the history of an institution or organisation, contact nls bl. Any potential institutional or corporate commission can only proceed if it fills a gap in the wider British Library oral history collections, fits the British Library Oral History Collection Development Policy and fulfils the current aims of the charity as agreed with the Trustees.

This includes access to recordings archived at the Library, the Sound and Moving Image catalogue and the British Library Sounds website. Teams across the Library are working hard to restore our systems and further updates on Sound and Vision services at the British Library will be posted on the Sound and Vision blog.