Oral history

Sweet Thames performance & final celebration event with Ewan Wardrop

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Kennedy Hall, Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regent’s Park Road, London, NW1 7AY Saturday 3rd June, 2023. Doors open 6:30pm with a 7pm start. This fun-filled performance event draws on the twenty-five recently collected oral history interviews for the Sweet Thames project hosted by Star Creative Heritage, funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund and supported …

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Sweet Thames Exhibition Launch

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Saturday 11th February, 2.30pm-4.30pm, Cecil Sharp House Sweet Thames: The London Folk Club Heritage Project has recorded twenty-five oral history interviews for the project and we have been drawing on these and our archival research to produce a transportable exhibition. The exhibition explores a number of themes which were highlighted during the interviews, including early …

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Interviewees for the Sweet Thames Project

Sweet Thames: The London Folk Club Heritage Project Oral History Interviews.

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In July 2022 we ran four oral history training workshops for twenty project volunteers to learn interviewing skills in order to record at least one interview for the project each. The workshops were fun and engaging and we established a cohesive team of volunteers, making friends along the way. The interviews took place over the …

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