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Dear Reader,
We are delighted to kick-start Oxford History Faculty's new 'Community History' initiative with our very first newsletter!
The Community History initiative is a new (and long overdue) endeavour for the Faculty -- but not a new area of study. There are, of course, many superb community history groups in the city and county, and we are very much looking forward to working with and learning from them. In particular, we are delighted to announce a founding set of partnerships with the Afrikan Caribbean Kultral Heritage Initiative, Everyday Muslim, and the Museum of Oxford.
In the first instance, these partnerships will offer student internships in community history. The main internship scheme will launch in October, but our pilot oral history internship has already been completed by MSt student, Caine Lewin-Turner, who has been interviewing pastors from Oxford's local churches about faith and community amongst Black residents of the city (we'll be hearing more from Caine in the next newsletter!).
More generally, we are grateful for the many community historians, students and staff members - in Oxford and beyond - who have given us advice and support. Our new webpages will be launching on the History Faculty's website in Michaelmas Term and will feature fuller details of the exciting range of past and active projects that our wonderful colleagues have been pursuing in this field.
We very much hope that this community history initiative will provide new ways of understanding history, and also new ways of doing history - in partnership, with community historians setting the research agendas. If you'd like to get in touch, please do email us at community@history.ox.ac.uk. We'd love to have your support, and to hear about your ideas and news!
With all best wishes from,
Professor Stephen Tuck and Dr Priya Atwal
(The Faculty's Community History Team)
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