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 -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Oral History of British Science blog Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 15:20:12 +0000 From: Millar, Elspeth <Elspeth.Millar@BL.UK> Reply-To: Millar, Elspeth <Elspeth.Millar@BL.UK> To: <MERSENNE@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@bl.uk <mailto:elspeth.millar@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>