Sources
The main collections featured on this oral history website are the:
- Black and Ethnic Minority Experience Project (BEME)
- Wolverhampton LGBT History Project
- Way We Are: Women of Wolverhampton (WOW) Project
- Finding Our Funny Roots project
The aim of the BEME project was to document the experiences of black and ethnic minority
communities within Wolverhampton. Over 100 individuals were interviewed and recorded on
either video or audio technology.
The LGBT History Project was a film project to record, preserve and share the stories of a wide range of LGBT people in Wolverhampton and the surrounding area, from teenagers to people in their 60s and 70s (who remember a period pre-legalisation), funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund.
The WOW project recorded the changes in women’s lives in Wolverhampton from the 1930s to the 1980s.
Finding Our Funny Roots was led by Creative Black Country and looked at capturing the stories of the Black Country comedians of the past, such as Tommy Mundon and Dolly Allen, and try to determine what makes people in the Black Country laugh.