{"id":1485,"date":"2011-07-05T17:01:02","date_gmt":"2011-07-05T16:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/?p=1485"},"modified":"2011-07-06T08:56:09","modified_gmt":"2011-07-06T07:56:09","slug":"the-open-university-oral-history-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/?p=1485","title":{"rendered":"The Open University Oral History Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/hilary-young1.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1488\" title=\"hilary-young\" src=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/hilary-young1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\" \/><\/a>On Tuesday 16<sup>th<\/sup> August 2011 at 6pm, at Bishopsgate Institute, London there is a meeting of the Oral History Workshop. The forum will include talks by <strong>Hilary Young<\/strong> (who recorded many interviewers with OU staff and students and now works at the Museum of London) on<strong> &#8216;Old Guard v New Recruits: The Open University Oral History Project&#8217;<\/strong>. There will also be a talk by Owen Collins (University of East London) on &#8216;George Ewart Evans and the roots of oral history in Britain&#8217;. It is intended that\u00a0informal group discussion afterwards from speakers and the floor will facilitate finding out what\u2019s happening in oral history projects and local projects,\u00a0discussing possible new directions in oral history and meeting activists\/organisers from a wide range of history projects. There&#8217;ll also be opportunities to consider future co-ordination and collaboration of projects. This is a free event. All welcome.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0If you plan to attend, <em>please RSVP<\/em> to Stefan Dickers at <a href=\"mailto:Stefan.dickers@bishopsgate.org.uk\">Stefan.dickers@bishopsgate.org.uk<\/a>\u00a0If you can\u2019t attend please let us know if you\u2019d like to be kept informed of future activities. Directions to\u00a0 <em>Bishopsgate Institute, <\/em><em>230 Bishopsgate, <\/em><em>London<\/em><em>, <\/em><em>EC2M 4QH\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bishopsgate.org.uk\/content.aspx?CategoryID=980\" target=\"_blank\" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker ('\/outbound\/article\/www.bishopsgate.org.uk');\">\u00a0here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday 16th August 2011 at 6pm, at Bishopsgate Institute, London there is a meeting of the Oral History Workshop. The forum will include talks by Hilary Young (who recorded many interviewers with OU staff and students and now works at the Museum of London) on &#8216;Old Guard v New Recruits: The Open University Oral [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history-of-the-ou"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1485"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1496,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485\/revisions\/1496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}