The People's History of Milton Keynes
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The People’s History of Milton Keynes (PMK) was a three year project by the Living Archive aimed at collecting 300 plus recordings of Milton Keynes citizens by the end of January 2003. The collection comprised oral history audio recordings, still images and documents, relevant to the development of the new town of Milton Keynes, the last major new town development in Britain in the twentieth century.
Since 1967 MK has attracted both national and international attention. Much has been written, often from an outsider’s viewpoint, however, the stories of those who settled here or those whose rural way of life was disturbed by the arrival of the new town and those who planned and built Milton Keynes had not hitherto been recorded.
The records within this collection have been catalogued according to the grouping of the interviewees within the original project.
The collection is a unique record of the social history of Milton Keynes, highlighting some key social changes and continuities in British society since 1970. Notably the decline in manufacturing, the rise of service industries and the role of organisations bringing together people isolated from their traditional family networks, in conditions of accelerated growth.
The project was devised to help to redress and reinterpret the media’s ‘popular’ image of Milton Keynes as a soulless concrete jungle only famous for its concrete cows!
Creator
Living Archive, Menuge, Noel
Extent
300 oral history audio cassettes.
Reference number
PMK
Records in this Collection
The ‘Peoples History of Milton Keynes’ project included approximately 324 Oral history interviews recorded by and on behalf of the Living Archive. This first selection of 22 interviews were recorded between April 2000 and December 2001 with original residents who were born within the area that would subsequently become known as Milton Keynes. The interviews ...
The ‘Peoples History of Milton Keynes’ project includes approximately 324 Oral history interviews recorded by and on behalf of the Living Archive. This selection of 11 interviews were recorded between April 2000 and March 2002 with original residents who moved during the period between1930 and 1949 into the area that would subsequently become known as ...
The ‘Peoples History of Milton Keynes’ project includes approximately 324 oral history interviews recorded by and on behalf of the Living Archive. This selection of 11 interviews were recorded between August 2000 and March 2001, with original residents who moved during the 1950s into the area that would subsequently become known as Milton Keynes. The ...
The ‘Peoples History of Milton Keynes’ project includes approximately 324 oral history interviews recorded by and on behalf of the Living Archive. This selection of 13 interviews were recorded between May 2000 and November 2002, with original residents who moved in the 1960s to the area that would subsequently become known as Milton Keynes. The ...
The ‘Peoples History of Milton Keynes’ project includes approximately 324 oral history interviews recorded by and on behalf of the Living Archive. This selection of 53 interviews were recorded between February 2000 and October 2001, with residents who moved, from 1967 onwards, into the area which had been designated as Milton Keynes. The interviews in ...
The ‘Peoples History of Milton Keynes’ project includes approximately 324 oral history interviews recorded by and on behalf of the Living Archive. This selection of 15 interviews were recorded between July 2000 and October 2001 with residents who moved into the area designated as Milton Keynes and were later employed by MKDC. The interviews in ...
The ‘Peoples History of Milton Keynes’ project includes approximately 324 oral history interviews recorded by and on behalf of the Living Archive. This selection of 29 interviews were recorded between July 2000 and December 2001, with residents who moved to the designated area of Milton Keynes, or to nearby towns and villages, specifically to work ...
The ‘Peoples History of Milton Keynes’ project includes approximately 324 oral history interviews recorded by and on behalf of the Living Archive. This selection of 21 interviews were recorded during 2001 with residents of Hong Kong Chinese descent who moved to Milton Keynes. The interviews for the most part cover the interviewees’ experiences ...
The ‘Peoples History of Milton Keynes’ project includes approximately 324 oral history interviews recorded by and on behalf of the Living Archive. This selection of 25 interviews were recorded between 2000 and 2005 with residents of Asian descent who moved to Milton Keynes. The interviews for the most part cover the interviewees’ experiences of ...
The ‘Peoples History of Milton Keynes’ project includes approximately 324 oral history interviews recorded by and on behalf of the Living Archive. This selection of 18 interviews were recorded between June and August 2001, with residents of Somalian descent who moved into Milton Keynes. The interviews in most part cover the interviewees’ experiences ...
The ‘Peoples History of Milton Keynes’ project includes approximately 324 oral history interviews recorded by and on behalf of the Living Archive. This selection of 14 interviews were recorded between June and November 2001, with residents of Italian descent who moved into Milton Keynes. The interviews for the most part cover the interviewees’ experiences ...
The ‘Peoples History of Milton Keynes’ project includes approximately 324 oral history interviews recorded by and on behalf of the Living Archive. This selection of 2 interviews were recorded in 2002, with members of the Jewish community who moved into Milton Keynes. The interviews for the most part cover the interviewees’ experiences of life ...
The ‘Peoples History of Milton Keynes’ project includes approximately 324 oral history interviews recorded by and on behalf of the Living Archive. This selection of 13 interviews were recorded between 2002 and 2003 with residents of Ghanaian descent, who moved to the town from the mid-1970s onwards. The interviews in most part cover ...
The ‘Peoples History of Milton Keynes’ project includes approximately 324 oral history interviews recorded by and on behalf of the Living Archive. This selection of 20 interviews were recorded between 2000 and 2002 with recent arrivals in Milton Keynes, who moved to the town from the mid-1970s onwards. The interviews in most ...
The ‘Peoples History of Milton Keynes’ project includes approximately 324 oral history interviews recorded by and on behalf of the Living Archive. This selection of 14 interviews were recorded between February 2000 and 2005, with a mixture of original residents, pioneer settlers and later residents.
The interviewees have all requested that access to their transcript be ...
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