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Your
stories, our stories - everyday moments and special achievements
delivered through the most powerful medium of all - recorded sound.
Myhistory.co.uk is a celebration of oral history. Here you can hear,
from the horses mouth, as it were, spoken word clips of individual
triumph and despair, happy days and memories, reflections of passion
and pain. And you can help us make this site grow too, by sending
us your history, sound clips, thoughts to the contact button above.
After all your history is myhistory. |
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Allen Vincatassin being forcibly removed from your home is something you associate with brutal dictators. The story of how the UK and the US conspired to make life for the Chagos Islanders a living hell. |
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Simon Brooks a first London Marathon can be a daunting thing - preparation, perspiration and all that stuff. |
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Elizabeth Hosford multi-medal winner in the latest World Transplant Games, Elisabeth talks about going, participating, and the elation of winning. |
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Working and Cycling how the working classes combined leisure pursuits with politics in the Fifties, as seen through the eyes of Bernard Barry, David Shade and Jack Mulineaux. |
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Mary Peters the Pentathlon Olympic gold medal winner on winning. |
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Brentford FC Supporters the passion and the pain - winning and losing all in the same game. |
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Steven Harris from a non-descript City job to one of the best chefs in the country, Harris on why he took the leap to setting up The Sportsman in Seasalter. |
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The Nazi Legacy stories of fear, hope and faith from participants and officials at the Berlin Olympics in 1936. |
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English Wines the challenge of convincing himself, as much as anybody else, on the growing reputation of English champagne. |
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Chocolate Shop from early days selling fudge for her mum to running one of the most successful sweetie shops in Kent, Jackie Windells charts the story of Bean. |
Coming soon: Richard Phillips, Michelin-starred chef on making good away from London; How a question of nationality brought Frank Walters to tears; From Wrestler to Chocolatier - the hands of Raymond Cazaux. |
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