The Oral History Heritage Project consists of the spoken experiences, recorded and saved for generations to come of fifty members of the British Polio Fellowship.  The archive is a living portrayal of the effects of Poliomyelitis on individuals, their families, and their friends and records the memories of people’s efforts and endeavors’ to overcome the ravages of what was a plague of relatively-modern times.

The interviews and audio recordings were conducted on behalf of the British Polio Fellowship by the Heritage Project worker following training with the Oral History Society and a team meeting with the Project Leader, British Polio Fellowship Archivist and Technical Producer.

You may select the interviews from the interview list on the left.

The interviews will be archived at the British Library, The Thackray Museum, Northwest Sound Archives, and the Wellcome Trust, as well as in the Fellowship’s own archive.