Since 1987 National Life Stories has run a series of innovative interviewing programmes funded almost entirely from sponsorship, charitable and individual donations and voluntary effort. Its collections cover a huge range of topics such as art, architecture, science, literature, food, farming and industries such as water, steel and electricity.
This collection includes end of project reports and research outputs from an assortment of NLS projects and activities.
National Life Stories (NLS) is an independent charitable trust within the Oral History department of the British Library. Founded in 1987, its mission is to record and preserve a wide range of voices through in-depth biographical accounts, to make them available and inspire their use.’ The charity’s expertise is in oral history fieldwork, with a focus on the long life story methodology.
This collection contains NLS Annual Reviews from 2005 onwards, plus 10 National Life Story Collection newsletters published between 1999 and 2005.
National Life Stories (NLS) is an independent charitable trust within the Oral History department of the British Library. Founded in 1987, its mission is to record and preserve a wide range of voices through in-depth biographical accounts, to make them available and inspire their use.’ The charity’s expertise is in oral history fieldwork, with a focus on the long life story methodology.
The Endangered Archives Programme (EAP) facilitates the digitisation of archives around the world that are in danger of destruction, neglect or physical deterioration. Thanks to generous funding from Arcadia, a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin, EAP has provided grants to more than 450 projects in over 90 countries worldwide, in over 100 languages and scripts.
The Endangered Archives Programme is administered by a small team at the British Library. This collection groups together any outputs created members of the EAP team.