Serie UB/Z/L/1 - Records of the Leverhulme 'Higher Education and Society' project: oral history recordings

63 files

Transferred to the University Archives, 1999

Set of sixty three audio recordings with former students and staff of the University of Birmingham between the 1920s and the 1980s, primarily discussing their experiences at the university but often also discussing their childhoods and school education, and sometimes their subsequent careers, originally made on compact cassette tape between November 1991 and July 1992.

Most recordings were made between November 1991 and March 1992, almost entirely by Donald Jones, but there is also one interview by Roy Lowe and Alison Gaukroger several months later, in November 1992.

The recordings on compact cassette were digitised in-house 2021-2022 and new transcripts were made in 2024 for those recordings without them.

The majority of the participants are no longer living and the interviews and transcripts for these interviewees are open for research. Interview recordings and transcripts of living individuals are closed