Occupational health in Scotland oral history project

Scope and Content

16 interviews with occupational health experts in Scotland. Also some correspondence and papers submitted by project participants.
The project focused on the Scottish Occupational Health Service (SOEHS, formerly SOHLS) between 1964 and 1990.

Administrative / Biographical History

The Scottish Oral History Centre (SOHC) was set up within the Department of History at the University of Strathclyde in 1995. Since its foundation the SOHC has been involved in a wide range of teaching, research and outreach activities designed primarily to encourage the use of ‘best practice’ oral history methodology in Scotland. Until 2005, the SOHC was directed by Professor Callum Brown, since then by Professor Arthur McIvor.

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Note

The Scottish Oral History Centre (SOHC) was set up within the Department of History at the University of Strathclyde in 1995. Since its foundation the SOHC has been involved in a wide range of teaching, research and outreach activities designed primarily to encourage the use of ‘best practice’ oral history methodology in Scotland. Until 2005, the SOHC was directed by Professor Callum Brown, since then by Professor Arthur McIvor.

- McIvor, A (2013) 'Working lives: work in Britain since 1945'

Archivist's Note

Created by Anna-K Mayer, 26 January 2017

Consent forms are predominantly missing/akm January 2017

Current location: compact cassettes at Baird 27.2, paper components at Baird 27.4/akm February 2017

A full listing of the project exists in draft as http://atom.lib.strath.ac.uk/sohc005-occupational-health-in-scotland-draft-version

Custodial History

Transferred from SOHC during 2015 and 2016. Original SOHC ID: "SOHCA/018". The project was sometimes referred to as "Nuffield Occupational Health Service Project" and at times listed as a component of the "Work and health in Scotland oral history project". The original recordings were made in 2001-2002 using a cassette recorder. In 2016, they were digitised to uncompressed, unaltered 24 bit/96kHz BWF format (for preservation) with 16bit/48kHz MP3 surrogates (for access).

Related Material

This collection is part of the Scottish Oral History Centre Archive.

Additional Information

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