In the mid 1980s Mantle Arts’ work focused on oral history. We recorded memories of local people that stretched back to before the first world war. ‘N. W. Leicestershire Voices’ is a project, supported by The National Lottery Heritage Fund, that will return to these recordings, preserving them via digitisation, and use them in a range of projects to make this archive of local history more accessible. This will include three exhibitions, installations or displays, a series of CDs, a podcast, schools workshops, and a new series of oral history recordings.
The project now has it’s own website where you will find much more information: nwlvoices.com
You can buy N.W. Leicestershire Voices booklets and CDs from our online bookshop: mantlelanepress.co.uk
The podcast episodes can be listened to on our Anchor page here, and via Spotify, Google Podcasts, Breaker and RadioPublic.
The original, unedited recordings can be listened to here:
https://soundcloud.com/mantle-arts-1/sets/nw-leicestershire-voices
Read our project launch press release.
Or download it as a pdf.
Check this page for more information as the project develops.
