Ambleside Oral History Archive

Please register here for free access to our online archive search facility.

This enables a search by keyword or listed topics of the complete archive, and will return a list of all interview transcripts containing the chosen keyword or topic. Each transcript can then be opened and examined.

On receipt of your registration form we will email you as soon as possible with a web address to the archive. This may take up to 24 hours
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AOHG makes no charge for public access to its transcript archive. However, there are some restrictions on copying text and use of the material, as follows:
  • 1. Copyright of all interviews, sound and transcription, is owned by Ambleside Oral History Group
  • 2. No reproduction is permitted for commercial use or personal gain before negotiation with the Ambleside Oral History Group. Any plans for such use must be stated in a signed declaration, before permission will be considered. (For use in Learned Papers, special arrangements may apply.)
  • 3. For non-commercial use, copyright law rules that no more that 25% of a transcript's contents may be copied without permission.
  • 4. Any publication of archived material, whether or not for commercial purposes, must acknowledge the source as "Ambleside Oral History Group".
Subject to the above conditions, you may copy and use extracts from the transcript archive.
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