Paul Merchant

Paul Merchant

2025

Oral Historian and Researcher, National Life Stories, The British Library. Interviewer for ‘An Oral History of Farming, Land Management and Conservation in Post-War Britain’ and ‘Oral Histories of Environmental Collaboration’.

The power of oral histories of agriculture and ecology

The Workshop Tent

Oral histories inspire and provoke, while reminding us to listen to others as we form our own, new ‘life stories’ in agriculture. In this interactive session the audience are invited to listen and respond to audio clips from life story interviews with farmers, ecologists and agricultural advisers recorded over recent years by National Life Stories […]

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