Centre for Life Writing and Oral History
Description
The Centre for Life Writing and Oral History explores the many ways in which people are telling their life stories.
Oral history has grown, over the past 50 years, to become a major channel through which people can participate in documenting their lived experience. Valuing the lives of marginalised groups in society, it creates a ‘history from below’, empowers participants and includes more diverse perspectives on the past.
Over the past 15 years meanwhile, biography, autobiography and memoir, journals and diaries, have all been recognised as forms of life writing. Social media have contributed to its growth, development and popularity, providing multiple platforms through which ordinary people can narrate their own lives digitally.
The Centre for Life Writing and Oral History brings together these two methods and builds upon London Metropolitan University's significant expertise in this area, developing and deepening its links with local communities and demonstrating how the Centre's research can serve them.
Offers funding
No, this infrastructure does not provide funding.
Founding year
2020
Contact details
166-220 Holloway Road
London
N7 8DB
United Kingdom
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Last modified:
2023-09-20 14:59:55