Here is a selection of full length recordings. This area is in development, with some work required to edit them into a more polished presentation.
We now have approximately 100 audio recordings stored at the WLHS archive. These include society talks from the 1980s and 1990s, BBC radio features and a wide range of oral history interviews conducted by the society .
Agricultural Trade Unions & Ascott Martyrs – Pamela Horn (1987) [ Summary here ]Agricultural Trade Union & Ascott Martyrs Part 2 – Pamela Horn (1987) [ Summary here ] Early Bruern Part 1 – Joy Timms (1990) [ Summary here ]Early Bruern Part 2 – Joy Timms (1990) [Summary here]Emigration To New Zealand Part 1 – Duncan Waugh [ Summary here ]Emigration To New Zealand Part 2 – Duncan Waugh [ Summary here ]Eva Bye – Memories [ Summary here ]Life of the Farm Worker 1780-1940 – Dick Garne [ Summary here ]Wartime Memories – George & Megan Bradley with John Rawlins Part 1 [ Summary here ]Wartime Memories – George & Megan Bradley with John Rawlins Part 2 [ Summary here ]Jack Busby – Memories. Interviewed by Doreen Barnes [ Summary here ]Memories Of Combe – Jeff Broxholme with Alan Vickers [ See Alan’s article here ]World War II – John Rawlins with Win Miles ( 1988) [ Summary here ]Les Case (00-25.55) and Edith Faulkner (25.55-45.33) with John Rawlins [ Summary here ]Edith Faulkner with John Rawlins (contd) [ Summary here ]Dorothy “Dor” Thomson with Mary McNeill [ Summary here ]Dorothy “Dor” Thomson – More Memories [ Summary here ]Mrs Newman, a Fulbrook Glover – with Mary McNeill [ Summary here ]Mabel Pearce, Mike Linfield & John Rawlins Part 1 (1988) [ Summary here ]Mabel Pearce, Mike Linfield & John Rawlins Part 2 (1988) [ Summary here ]Mabel Pearce with Mary McNeill [ Summary here ]Cyril Lane with Rachel Grant Part 1 [ Summary here ]Cyril Lane with Rachel Grant Part 2 [ Summary here ]History of Bliss Mill Part 1 – Ralph Mann [ Summary here ]History of Bliss Mill Part 2 – Ralph Mann [ Summary here ]Rose Burson interviewed by Mike Linfield (1988 ) [ Summary here ]The Groves Family Part 1a – Norman Frost [ Summary here ]The Groves Family Part 1b – Norman Frost [ Summary here ]The Groves Family Part 2a – Norman Frost [ Summary here ]The Groves Family Part 2b – Norman Frost [ Summary here ]St Mary’s Church and The Serpent – Jack Chapman [ Summary here ]Dorothy Thomson, Edith Faulkner and Others [ Summary here ]
Special :
Interviews on “People and Places” on BBC Radio Oxford in the 1990s
Margaret Ware discusses fieldwalking on BBC Radio: here >>>