[SIGCIS-Members] Fwd: Oral History of British Science blog

[James Sumner]

Dear SIGCIS members

Some valuable, newly available material here: the verbatim transcripts 
(follow the "Related transcripts" link at bottom of page for the 
relevant interview section) should be particularly useful.

While the interviews with Tony Brooker and Geoff Tootill are of most 
immediately obvious interest to historians of computing, several of the 
others should offer some helpful light on the arrival of automated 
computation in various branches of research science.

Best
James

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Subject: 	Oral History of British Science blog
Date: 	Fri, 18 Feb 2011 15:20:12 +0000
From: 	Millar, Elspeth <Elspeth.Millar at BL.UK>
Reply-To: 	Millar, Elspeth <Elspeth.Millar at BL.UK>
To: 	<MERSENNE at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>



List subscribers may be interested in the /Oral History of British
Science /blog
(http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/oralhistoryofscience/) and project
website (www.bl.uk/historyofscience
<http://www.bl.uk/historyofscience>).The project has been running for
around 15 months and we have 40 interviews either complete or ‘in
progress’.The main contributors to the blog are the project interviewers
Dr Thomas Lean and Dr Paul Merchant, though the project’s support team,
including myself and Dr Katrina Dean and Dr Tilly Blyth, also
contribute.We have been aiming to provide insights into the challenges
of interviewing scientific and technical specialists; discussing
historical themes that emerge from the interviewing programme; and
promote events and anniversaries that the team are taking part in and
which relate to the history of science.

The first ‘complete’ interviews (that have summaries, transcripts, and
are cleared for internet access) are available online via the ‘Oral
History of British Science’
<http://sounds.bl.uk/Browse.aspx?category=Oral-history&collection=Eminent-scientists&browseby=Browse+by+interviewee&choice=Brooker,+Tony> 

package on the Archival Sound Recordings website.This website also
includes life story interviews carried out under the auspices of other
National Life Story projects, including with Max Perutz, Aaron Klug and
Maurice Wilkins.Further information about the project can be found via
our project webpage (www.bl.uk/historyofscience
<http://www.bl.uk/historyofscience>).

We would welcome comments and feedback.

With best wishes

Elspeth

*Elspeth Millar*

Archive Assistant, Oral History & National Life Stories

The British Library

96 Euston Road

London NW1 2DB

020 7412 7404

elspeth.millar at bl.uk <mailto:elspeth.millar at bl.uk>

www.bl.uk/oralhistory
<https://blowa2.bl.uk/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.bl.uk/oralhistory> 

and www.bl.uk/historyofscience <http://www.bl.uk/historyofscience>