Oral History Clip Bank

Michael Southgate describes the process of choosing models for mannequins and comments on the success of the Twiggy mannequin. Copyright British Library.

This clip is taken from the from National Life Stories Collection 'An Oral History of British Fashion': http://sounds.bl.uk/Oral-history/Fashion

You can listen to the full interview (shelfmark C1046/08) at British Library Sounds: http://sounds.bl.uk/Oral-history/Fashion/021M-C1046X0008XX-0001V0

To find out more about National Life Stories visit the British Library website: www.bl.uk/projects/national-life-stories

Michael Southgate: Mannequins

Michael Darnell tells a story about a fight over Tesco underpants. Copyright British Library.

This clip is taken from the from National Life Stories Collection 'Tesco: An Oral History': http://sounds.bl.uk/Oral-history/food

You can listen to the full interview (shelfmark C1087/05) at British Library Sounds: http://sounds.bl.uk/Oral-history/Food/021M-C1087X0005XX-0001V0

To find out more about National Life Stories visit the British Library website: www.bl.uk/projects/national-life-stories

Michael Darnell: Tesco Underpants

Robert Johnson describes how Bill Knapman would take merchant banker visitors into the cold store until they were frozen, and then take them for tea. Copyright British Library.

Clip taken from the National Life Stories project 'Food: From Source to Salespoint' http://sounds.bl.uk/Oral-history/food

You can listen to the full interview (shelfmark C821/10) at British Library Sounds: http://sounds.bl.uk/Oral-history/Food/021M-C0821X0010XX-0001V0

To find out more about National Life Stories visit the British Library website: www.bl.uk/projects/national-life-stories

Robert Johnson: Cold Storage

Andrew Logan describes additions made to the Butler's Wharf studio space, including a stage and a gold cabin. The court  scene for Derek Jarman’s film, ‘Caravaggio’ was shot at Andrew Logan’s studio. Logan also describes buying a castle from Biba when it closed. Copyright British Library.

Clip taken from National Life Stories Collection: Crafts Lives https://www.bl.uk/projects/national-life-stories-crafts-lives

You can listen to the full interview (shelfmark C960/87) at British Library Sounds: http://sounds.bl.uk/Oral-history/Crafts/021M-C0960X0087XX-0002V0

To find out more about National Life Stories visit the British Library website: www.bl.uk/projects/national-life-stories

Andrew Logan: Studio

Frank Davenport (C1495/13) describes the construction of a electricity cable cooling station on Regent's Canal, London. The cooling station had to be built to look like a pirate's castle, so as to match a Youth Club across the canal. Copyright British Library.

This extract is taken from An Oral History of the Electricity Supply Industry in the UK: https://www.bl.uk/projects/national-life-stories-an-oral-history-of-the-electricity-supply-industry-in-the-uk

You can listen to the full interview on British Library Sounds: http://sounds.bl.uk/Oral-history/Industry-water-steel-and-energy/021M-C1495X0013XX-0008V0

Frank Davenport - Pirate's Castle Cooling Station

Denys Lasdun discusses why models are so important for him in order to understand how spaces are connected, and how, ‘this is at the biological centre of architecture’.

Interview with Jill Lever in 1997, Architects Lives, C467/09 

Part 9 [00:23:45- 00:26:03] 
Copyright British Library 

Full interview available at https://sounds.bl.uk/Oral-history/Architects-Lives/021M-C0467X0032XX-0001V0

This clip can be listened to at Drawing Matter, https://www.drawingmatter.org/

Drawing Matter is an archive of architectural drawings established by Niall Hobhouse in order to actively promote new ways of thinking about architecture through the process of drawing.  The collection contains many thousands of drawings and spans the period from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.

Denys Lasdun, ‘Models’

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