General Election Called
On April 18th Theresa May stunned Westminster and the nation by demanding a snap general election on 8 June. The announcement, in which she recanted her repeated promise not to go to the polls before 2020, was made in an unscheduled statement on Tuesday morning from behind a lectern outside 10 Downing Street. From the Projects viewpoint this news is both exciting and timely and allowed the Project Team to garner considerable effort around linking this election to the 'Votes f
Oral History...
"Out of shared telling and remembering grow identity, connection and pride, binding people to a place and to one another." Tom Rankin Recording oral histories are always a daunting task and we chose a key political figure to interview in one of our first Interview captures... RT Honourable Margaret Beckett MP who on March 24th was named the longest serving woman MP in Parliament. The process of organising the interview was overseen by Margaret's Parliamentary Assistant Oral
