Oral history plays an important role in research into modern history and can help us better understand the recent past and the people who lived through it.
The History Begins at Home project aims to foster personal connection through conversations and reminiscences about personal experiences. Having and documenting these conversations helps us to stop this history being forgotten.
On the History Begins at Home website you’ll find tips and tools to help you to explore more about the history of your family and friends. Including a huge number of worksheets with thought provoking questions to spark conversation. Here are a few questions to get you started, and there’s a few Wales specific questions too, we are Archives Wales after all:
Having these conversations allows people to better understand each other. For instance, our marketing officer, James, fondly remembers a school project in year 5 where he recorded a conversation with his grandfather about life on a North Wales farm during the 1940s/50s. He says after the project he felt a deeper connection to and understanding of his grandfather.
For more conversation starters, visit the History Begins at Home website: https://www.historybeginsathome.org/
