Food Stories: Extracts From Oral History Interviews

The contents of this disc have been created as a result of research project funded under the Economic and Social Research Council and Arts and Humanities Research Council’s Cultures of Consumption Programme (www.consume.bbk.ac.uk ). The project, entitled Manufacturing Meaning Along the Food Commodity Chain, was led by Professor Peter Jackson at the Department of Geography, University of Sheffield, Professor Neil Ward at the Centre for Rural Economy at Newcastle University (www. ncl.ac.uk/cre) and Dr Rob Perks at British Library National Life Stories. The researcher on the project was Dr Polly Russell. The project examined the politics and culture of food production in Britain through the collection of oral history recordings with food producers. These recordings have been archived at the British Library Sound Archive as part of National Life Stories Food from Source to Salespoint collection. The recordings on this disc are taken from the Food: from Source to Salespoint archive and from the Millennium Memory Bank recordings. The audio was selected and text content written by Polly Russell, Food Researcher and Oral Historian, and by Anna Lobbenberg, eLearning Manager at the British Library, with contributions from Jenny Linford, Jenny Rourke, Kath Dalmeny and Marianne Holm Hansen.