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🗂️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...
Dr Sally Watson joins the Oral History Collective as Research and Innovation Associate on the Green Corridors North East research project in History, Classics, and Archaeology | The Lug
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February 8, 2026 at 10:34 AM
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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

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Bridging histories: a new chapter in UK–Iraq academic collaboration | The Lug
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January 5, 2026 at 4:36 PM
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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

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Bridging histories: a new chapter in UK–Iraq academic collaboration | The Lug
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January 5, 2026 at 4:36 PM
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CfP: The British General Strike of 1926: New Directions of Research, 7-8 May 2026 @newcastleuni.bsky.social
Deadline: 6 February 2026

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CfP: The British General Strike of 1926: New Directions of Research
To commemorate the centenary of the British General Strike and miners’ lock-out, Newcastle University’s Labour & Society Research Group (LSRG) is organising a conference that revisits the…
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October 14, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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🗂️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
Introducing Oral History into Iraqi Higher Education Research and Teaching | The Lug
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August 4, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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📝 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.

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Newcastle General Hospital: Nurses Visit as Hospital Site Begins New Development | The Lug
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May 13, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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🌎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
Rebalancing the Global Story of HIV Through Oral History | The Lug
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April 24, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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📢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...

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Documenting Housing and Labour Oral Histories with the Glasgow Housing Struggle Archive (GHSA) | The Lug
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March 3, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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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

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#SocialCare #HistoryOfCare #OralHistory
Oral Histories of Care: Caring Communities | The Lug
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February 12, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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🏘️The Byker Estate in Newcastle: an international icon of pioneering urban regeneration. Discover how dedicated individuals are preserving its human stories for future generations.

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#OralHistory #BykerEstate #UrbanRegeneration #BykerStories
Preserving Byker’s Vibrant Past with Oral History | The Lug
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January 20, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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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.

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The Srebrenica Memorial Center | The Lug
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December 4, 2024 at 4:30 PM
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#Oralhistory of Lockerbie first responders from @ohcollective
Andy Clark and UoWS Colin Atkinson.
Newcastle University project captures Lockerbie memories
Academics speak to those who helped in the aftermath of the 1988 terrorist attack on a plane.
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December 21, 2023 at 6:48 PM