On Monday 16 March, I went to Barking Library to meet Sarah Jackson from East End Women's Museum and team about oral history recording for the Factory Stories project. Barking & Dagenham are starting a women's museum, with the East End Women's Museum team, and have heritage lottery funding to record stories of women and factories during this summer.
I spoke to Fani, the administrator, and someone else (whose name escapes me!) about what they are looking for when interviewing. ... said what fascinates her is what interviewees are prepared to tell - sometimes they are quite open about things that seem shocking, or can be very articulate about very mundane things. I told her about my Aunt Daisy, and how appalled my mother was that Daisy went on strike during the Machinists dispute at Fords.
I have put myself forward to be trained as an interviewer, for their oral history recording project. Sounds like 6 hours of training will be arranged - 1 x 4 hour session and 1 x 2 hour session. I will also be an interviewee too, possibly at my home or in Barking.
I'm looking forward to it.
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