Rachel Cutler is an active advocate for the use of oral history in education and has created myhistory.co.uk to present and collect oral testimony and to initiate discussion on the role of oral history in education at all levels. For the last ten years she has worked consistently within the disciplines of oral testimony and Sports history both in the field and in education.

Her fieldwork includes: Running for their Lives: an oral history of British Athletics, which she established at the world renowned British Library Sound Archive in 1988. The project is ongoing and now holds over thirty life stories of elite British track and field athletes. Those interviewed have competed from as long ago as the Berlin Games in 1936 and as recently as the Paralympics in Athens 2004.

Other current fieldwork includes, "Me and the Sea", a Maritime history project with schoolchildren in Kent, using oral testimony and website skills to connect them with their past. Rachel also conducts interviews with food practitioners for Restaurant Spy.

Last year she undertook an oral history for the Gunnersbury Park Museum as part of the celebrations for Brentford Football Club’s centenary, during which over forty interviews were completed with supporters aged between 17 and 80 years. Each interview is now held at the Gunnersbury Park Museum as part of their Sound Archive whilst edited sections from the interviews were used as an integral part of the exhibition and Beespoken, a CD of highlights is downloadable from iTunes.

This year she completed an oral history of the Flora London Marathon to coincide with its 25 th anniversary. The recording for the CD was made during the week prior to this year’s event and combines life stories with shorter interviews made with fun runners, club runners and support staff on the day. In 2006 Right Back Records release the first of two newly edited CDs by Rachel; Brits in Berlin is the story of British athletes at the summer and winter Games in Nazi governed Germany. The second, And Women Glow, is a collection of interviews with elite sports women of the twentieth century.

In response to London’s successful bid for the 2012 Olympic Games Rachel is working with The Olympians to complete interviews with all living British Olympic medalists.

Rachel has lectured extensively on British sport, the Modern Olympic Games and Oral testimony at a number of British Universities, including Southampton University in the Department of Sports Science where she designed and taught the Modern Olympic Games course, the Roehampton Institute, University of Surrey and at the Institute for Sport History and Culture, University of De Montfort, where she worked with students using oral testimony in post graduate research. Rachel has presented papers and appeared on panels at University College London, De Montfort University, and Leicester and Loughborough Universities. In 2006 she will be presenting Gary Roberts was my Roy of the Rovers: the role of the fan in 21 st Century Britain at the annual conference of the Oral History Society, Sheffield Wednesday Football Club.