Oral History of British Science Team
National Life Stories is creating a major archive for the study and public understanding of contemporary science in Britain through a new oral history fieldwork programme involving 200 in-depth interviews with British scientists.
An initiative of National Life Stories and the British Library in association with the Science Museum
Oral History of British Science Team
Dr Robert Perks
Director of National Life Stories
Curator of Oral History, The British Library
Dr Sally Horrocks
Senior Academic Consultant
Dr Thomas Lean
Oral History Interviewer (Made in Britain)
Dr Paul Merchant
Oral History Interviewer (A Changing Planet)
Elspeth Millar
Oral History Archive Assistant, The British Library
Mary Stewart
Deputy Director of National Life Stories
Curator of Oral History, The British Library
Advisory committee
Dr Jon Agar, Senior Lecturer in Science and Technology Studies, University College London
Dr Tilly Blyth, Curator of Computing and Information, Science Museum
Lord Alec Broers, Emeritus Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge, Chairman of Diamond Light Source Ltd and Bio-Nano Centre Ltd
Georgina Ferry, science writer, author and broadcaster
Professor Dame Julia Higgins, Emeritus Professor of Polymer Science, Imperial College London
Dr Maja Kominko, Cultural Grants Manager for the Arcadia Fund
Sir Harry Kroto, Francis Eppes Professor of Chemistry at Florida State University, Emeritus Professor at Sussex University, co-founder of the Vega Science Trust, and Nobel Prize winner for Chemistry in 1996
John Lynch OBE, Science programme maker and writer
Professor Chris Rapley CBE, Professor of Climate Science at University College London, Fellow of St Edmund's College Cambridge, and Honorary Professor at the University of East Anglia
Dr Simone Turchetti, Research Fellow, Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Manchester
Contact us
If you have any queries regarding an Oral History of British Science project please contact us at
National Life Stories
The British Library
96 Euston Road
London NW1 2DB
United Kingdom
Email: oralhistory@bl.uk
Fax +44 (0)20 7412 7441
Tel +44 (0)20 7412 7404 (Elspeth Millar, Oral History Archive Assistant)
