Publications
Butler T, Driver F, Brayshay B, Church C, Iles J, Mould O and Papadakis S, Voices for Change: An Oral History of the Environmental Movement in the UK, 1970-2020 (UCL Press, 2026), in press.
Driver, F, Brayshay B and Butler T, Oral histories of the environmental movement: making an activist archive History Workshop Journal 100 (2025)
Brayshay B, Papadakis S, Whose voices are heard? capturing diversity in a national archive of activist life stories in press
Witness seminar transcripts
The environmental movement in Scotland, Glasgow, 5 June 2025
The Environmental movement in Wales, Cardiff, 20 March 2025
The environmental movement and policy change, London, 28 February 2025
Artivism and the environmental movement, London, 29 January 2025
Building Green Infrastructure, Camley Street Natural Park, London 13 May 2024
The environmental movement in Northern Ireland, 26 January 2024
Academic seminar on radical environmentalism
Jenny Pickerill (University of Sheffield), ‘Mud, dancing, and resistance: the joy and mess of radical environmentalism and non-violent direct action in 1990s Britain’, 18 February 2025.
A seminar in a series convened in collaboration with the London Group of Historical geographers, freely available as a podcast from the IHR website
Learning resources
· Oral history resource for schools: Introduction to the use of oral history interviews as a method of qualitative data collection in geography, with examples, sound clips and further resources. Freely available on the RGS schools webpages
· Podcast on oral history interviews as research method: Discussion on using oral histories in research in the Royal Geographical Society’s Ask the Geographer podcast series
· Infographics: With our partners in the Royal Geographical Society and the Wildlife Trusts, we are creating a set of four infographics on environmental policy and politics for use in schools. These will cover climate and energy; biodiversity and nature; waste, recycling and the circular economy; and the environmental movement (coming in early 2026).
· Simulation game: Following workshops at Oral History Society conferences, Jeremy Iles and Barbara Brayshay developed a learning resource, The Selection Matrix Game, complete with a bespoke deck of cards. The game encourages participants to reflect on how to select interviewees for an oral history project, and the challenges of ensuring interviewees come from a diverse range of backgrounds.
Project blog
Throughout the project, we shared updates on work in progress via our project blog. Here, you can find commentaries on all our witness seminars, reflections on the practice of oral history, introductions to particular topics linked to the environmental movement and reflections on the experiences of interviewers and summarisers who have worked on the OHEM project.
Interviews
Sound clips from 265 interviews, linked to extracts from interview transcripts, will be made freely by Royal Holloway, University of London, when the project book is published in 2026. Watch this space for details.
In Spring 2026 the full collection will become available in searchable form on the British Library’s Sound and Moving Image catalogue. The interviews themselves will be accessible in audio and transcript form onsite at the British Library in St Pancras by appointment. The British Library continues its work to restore its services following the 2023 cyber-attack, so in due course the open interviews will also be made available for online access. For up-to-date information visit https://bl.libguides.com/reference-services/sound-and-vision
