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Papers of author and oral historian Clive Murphy, including: typescript and handwritten drafts, correspondence and research materials for all of the books in the 'Ordinary Lives' series, including papers on unpublished books, 1966-1998; audio tapes of interviews with all subjects in the 'Ordinary Lives' series, including interviews for unpublished books, 1973-1999; typescrpt and handwritten drafts, correspondence and research materials for all volumes of comic verse, 1998-2013; typescript and handwritten drafts, correspondence and research materials for published and unpublished novels, 1964-1998; handwritten diaries, entitled 'The Old Age of Clive Murphy', 2003-2013; 198 photograph albums of personal photographs from holidays, day-to-day life and around Spitalfields, 1987-2013; ephemera, including pamphlets and leaflets, 1960s-1990s; scrapbooks containing press cuttings and handwitten notes of quotations, n.d.; extensive correspondence, mainly in postcard form, with author Francis King, 1997-2011; oversize scrapbooks, mainly in wallpaper sample books, containing miscellaneous press cuttings, 1980-2013; postcards of male beauty, n.d.; personal and family papers, including correspondence with mother Vera Murphy, childhood diaries, photographs and photograph albums, certificates, childhod match box collection and autograph book, c 1920s-2000.

The archive consists of reading copies of tapes, summaries and transcriptions of fourteen individual interviews. The National Life Stories (formerly National Life Story Collection (NLSC)) was established at the British Library in 1987 to 'record first-hand experiences of as wide a cross-section of present-day society as possible'. This small collection focuses on the lives of pioneering career women, each of whom made their mark in traditionally male-dominated areas such as politics, the law and medicine. The project was supported by the Women's Library and the Friends of The Women's Library (formerly known as the Fawcett Society Library).

Papers, CDs and ephemera of the Occupy Oral History Project (October 2011-April 2012). Includes handwritten and printed flyers; oral history recording agreement form; clearance notes and deposit instruction forms, [13pp] [November 2011-February 2012]; consent forms x2, [4pp] [April 2012]; 'Occupier' newsprint posters, [8pp] [n.d.]; CDs x13 of interviews.

The collection consists of 205 interviews available in digital audio file format and one folder of contextual material relating to the interviews, including essays and reports by Brian Harrison. The digital files are copies of the original oral history interview recordings that are held on reel-to-reel cassette.

Papers of historian Raphael Samuel, 1934-1996, notably including working papers on the heritage of East London; doctoral notes on the Victorian poor; an ethnographic contribution to Michael Young's pioneering sociological research on family and kinship in Bethnal Green; records concerning the East End underworld gathered through the oral history of Arthur Harding, criminal and Barnardo boy; printed and manuscript material, including notes, correspondence, publication drafts, photographs, slides, pamphlets, annotated newspaper and journal extracts concerning all aspects of Raphael Samuel's work, publications and career; 140 audio and video cassettes containing recordings of radio and television appearances and conversations with other historians, reels of film, photographs and index cards, c1950-1996.