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An audio clip that describes seeing a dead body that had been laid out in a front room.

An short audio clip that says people used to be put into quarantine when they had scarlet fever.

An audio clip that describes medical treatments before the introduction of penicillin.

The collection comprises 7 interviews people who had memories of Whatton Hall / House when it was a maternity hospital during WW2. Link to catalogue

This collection comprises 18 interviews, and documents the lives and experiences of people from the Hinckley, Burbage and Barwell areas. Link to catalogue

This collection comprises 10 interviews. They were conducted with current and former employees of the company TH Wathes and mainly cover the period 1935 to 1972. Link to catalogue

This collection comprises 27 interviews, and features the recollections and experiences of the people who lived in the Walnut Street/Bede Island area of Leicester. Link to catalogue

Recordings from six villages in Leicestershire that were made in 2012/13 to investigate local accent and dialect. Link to catalogue.

Four interviews covering the experience of coping with unemployment in Leicester during the 1980s and 1990s. Link to catalogue

This collection comprises 26 interviews and six sound bites. They are mostly with Asian people who left Uganda in 1972 after Idi Amin's expulsion order. Link to catalogue