We hold a sizable number of dental records that explore changing attitudes to intercourse, and intimate and reproductive health.

Concerning the collection

A quantity of dental history collections during the Uk Library Sound Archive provide chance to explore changing attitudes to intercourse, and intimate and health that is reproductive. Several of the collections have interviews with those in globes hardly ever documented, such as for example prostitution, and explore themes such as for example changing attitudes towards birth and homosexuality control.

What is available on the internet?

Observing the 1980s offers, for the very first time, ‘voices’ from both the Mass Observation Archive plus the British Library’s Oral History collections. This product offers an original and impressive understanding of the life and viewpoints of Uk individuals from all social classes and areas through the 1980s. The interviews from where the videos were chosen for the ‘Observing the 1980s’ Open Education Resource derive from collaborative dental history projects and can include recordings with those taking part in key activities, for instance the Falklands War, the Miners’ Strike therefore the Brixton riots, along with those showing on industry within the 1980s, jobless and redundancy, and HIV and Aids. The interviews inside their entirety are created available on British Library Sounds.

The Listening Project is available on British Library Sounds. Initiated in 2012, The Listening Project is just a audio archive of conversations recorded because of the BBC.