National Life Stories: who's who

• President
  Lord Asa Briggs
• Founder
  Professor Paul Thompson
• Chairman
  Sir Nicholas Goodison
• Director
  Dr Robert Perks
• Associate Director
  Jennifer Wingate
• Treasurer
  Bob Boas
• Past Chairman
  Martyn Goff CBE
• Project Director
  Cathy Courtney
• Deputy Director
  Mary Stewart
• Archive Assistant
  Elspeth Millar
• Cataloguer
  Dr Alex King
• Senior Academic Consultant
• Dr Sally Horrocks (An Oral History of British Science)
• Volunteers
  Sue Bradbury
• Claire Fons
• Geraint Franklin
• John Hollingworth
• Audrie Mundy

• Project workers

• Frances Cornford (Crafts Lives)
• Harriet Devine (The Legacy of the English Stage Company)
• Niamh Dillon (Tesco: An Oral History, Architects’ Lives, Chefs)
• Alison Gilmour (An Oral History of the Water Industry in the UK)
• Katharine Haydon (An Oral History of Barings)
• Thomas Lean (An Oral History of British Science)
• Paul Merchant (An Oral History of British Science)
• Sarah O’Reilly (Authors’ Lives)
• Elizabeth Wright (Oral History of Theatre Design and Crafts Lives)

  Transcribers

• Susan Hutton
• Susan Nicholls
• Business Friend

  Freelance oral history interviewers

• Louise Brodie (Pioneers in Charity and Social Welfare, Oral History of the British Press, Down to Earth: An Oral History of British Horticulture)
• Catherine Croft (Architects' Lives)
• Rachel Cutler (Oral History of British Athletics)
• Kirstie Gregory (Artists’ Lives)
• Shirley Read (Oral History of British Photography)
• Jenny Simmons (Artists’ Lives)
• Ann Sproat (Artists’ Lives)
• Robert Wilkinson (An Oral History of Oral History)
• Jon Wood (Artists’ Lives)

  Trustees

• Bob Boas
• Lord Asa Briggs
• Sir John Craven
• Roger Gavin
• Sir Nicholas Goodison
• Bill Knight OBE
• Dame Penelope Lively DBE
• Dr Scot McKendrick
• Dr Robert Perks
• Professor Dorothy Sheridan MBE
• Sir Harry Solomon
• Professor Paul Thompson
• David Webster
• Jennifer Wingate

• Advisors

• Sir Peter Bazalgette
• Eric de Bellaigue
• Lord Bragg
• Professor Mary Chamberlain
• Sir Roger Gibbs
• Dr Mark Girouard
• Martyn Goff CBE
• Dundas Hamilton CBE
• Professor Leslie Hannah
• Lord Rees of Ludlow OM
• Jonathan Taylor CBE
• Caroline Waldegrave OBE
• Bill Williams

   

  Advisory committees for individual National Life Stories projects are listed on the web page of the respective project. 

  Further information

  Contact us
  

  Oral History
  The British Library
  96 Euston Road
  London
  NW1 2DB
  United Kingdom

  Tel: +44 (0)20 7412 7405 (Rob Perks, Oral History Curator / Director of National Life Stories)
  Tel: +44 (0)20 7412 7406 (Mary Stewart, Oral History Curator / Deputy Director of National Life Stories)
  Tel: +44 (0)20 7412 7404 (Elspeth Millar, Oral History Archive Assistant)
  Email: oralhistory@bl.uk

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