useful web sites

The Research Centre for Television and Interactivity
  www.researchcentre.co.uk

South West Screen   
  www.southwestscreen.co.uk

The Oral History Society   
  www.ohs.org.uk

The National Life Stories Collection   
  www.bl.uk/collections/sound-archive/nsa.html

The University of the West of England, Media studies
  http://info.uwe.ac.uk/courses/

 

programmes produced by Testimony Films

Disappearing Britain 3 x 60 mins (Five. Co-production with Lion 2006)

Sex Love and War 5 x 50 mins (UKTV History 2006)

The Miracle of Stairway B 1 x 60 mins (U.S. History Channel/Channel 4 2006)

Stags and Hens: Sex in the Nineties 1 x 60 mins (Channel 4 2006)

The Story of Club 18-30: Sex in the Eighties 1 x 60 mins (Channel 4 2006)

Children of the Doomed Voyage 1 x 50 mins (Timewatch BBC2, 2005)
The story of the doomed evacuee ship the S.S. Benares

Little Kinsey (BBC4, 2005) The story of the long forgotten British Kinsey Sex Survey of 1949
and the sex lives of the British during the post war years

The Man Who Predicted 9/11 1 x 60 mins  (Channel 4/U.S. History Channel, 2005)
The extraordinary story of Cornish security guard Rick Rescorla.

Bad Boys of the Blitz: Revealed 1 x 60 mins (Five 2005) The crime wave in World War 2 Britain

The West at War  6 x 30 mins (ITV1 West 2005)  Front line stories from west servicemen in World War 2

Love Child  2 x 60 mins (ITV1 2005) Social history of adopton in 20th century Britain

Hope and Glory 6 x 30 mins (ITV1 West) The Commonwealth and the Empire

Britain’s Boy Soldiers 1 x 60 mins (Channel 4, 2004) The secret history of under-age boy soldiers in World War 1

The 50s and 60s in Living Colour 3 x 60 mins (ITV1, 2004) History of 1950s and 60s using little known colour archive

The Affair 1 x 60 mins (Channel 4, 2003) The secret history of extra marital affairs

Horror on the Home Front 1 x 60 mins  (Channel 4, 2003) The story of Britain's home front during World War 1

The Real Tom Jones 1 x 60 min (Channel 4, 2002) Tom's story from valley boy to international superstar

Married Love  3 x 60 mins Channel 4 (Channel 4, 2002) Documentary history of sex and marriage in 20th century Britain

A Pocketful of Posies 1 x 50 mins (BBC2, 2001) The childhoods of Britain's oldest men and women

Some Liked it Hot 2 x 60 mins (ITV1, 2001) The British on holiday in the 1950s and 60s

Prisoners of the Kaiser 1 x 60 mins (Channel 4, 2000) German treatment of British POWs in World War 1

Green and Pleasant Land  6 x 60 mins (Channel 4, 1999) The story of the British countryside 1900-1960

Far Out 3 x 60 mins (Channel 4, 1999) The dawning of new age Britain

Hooked 6 x 30 mins (Channel 4, 1998) History of six addictions in Britain: drugs, smoking, sex, gambling, chocolate, drink

Veterans  2 x 50 mins (BBC1, 1998) Stories from the last survivors of World War 1

Sex in a Cold Climate 1 x 60 mins (Channel 4, 1998)  The story of survivors from Ireland's Catholic run Magdalene homes

The Call of the Sea  6 x40 mins (BBC2, 1997) Britain's seafaring past

The Roses of No Man's Land 1 x 60 mins  (Channel 4, 1997) The last British nurses of World War 1

A Man's World  6 x 40 mins (BBC2, 1996) What it was to be a man in Britain 1900-1960

Forbidden Britain 6 x 40 mins (BBC2, 1995) Secret history of juvenile crime, affairs, riots,
unemployment, homelessness and child sex abuse

Stolen Lives  1 x 30 mins (Channel 4, 1995) The story of Meanwood mental hospital, Leeds

A Labour of Love 6 x 40 mins (BBC2, 1993) The history of parenting in Britain 1900-1960

books written by Steve Humphries

Hooligans or Rebels: An Oral History of Working Class Childhood and Youth (Blackwell 1981, 1983, Open Unversity 1997)

The Handbook of Oral History (Inter-Action 1983)

 

The Making of Modern London 1815-1914 (Sigdwick and Jackson 1983) with Gavin Weightman

The Making of Modern London 1914-1939  (Sidgwick and Jackson 1984) with Gavin Weightman

The Making of Modern London: London at War 1939-1945 (Sidgwick and Jackson 1985) with Joanna Mack

The Making of Modern London: 1945-1985 (Sidgwick and Jackson 1986) with John Taylor

all the above written to accompany the 24 part LWT/ITV series The Making of Modern London

 

Christmas Past (Sidgwick and Jackson 1987) with Gavin Weightman to accompany LWT/ITV documentary history

Victorian Britain through the Magic Lantern (Sidgwick and Jackson 1989)

A Century of Childhood (Sidgwick and Jackson 1989) with Joanna Mack and Rob Perks,
to accompany 8 part Channel 4 series of same name.

A Secret World of Sex (Sidgwick and Jackson 1988,1991) to accompany 6 part BBC2 series of same name.

Out of Sight: The Experience of Disability (Northcote House) with Pamela Gordon,
to accompany 4 part Channel 4 series of same name.

A Labour of Love: Parenting in Britain 1900-1950 (Sidgwick and Jackson 1992) with Pamela Gordon,
to accompany 6 part BBC2 series of same name.

Forbidden Britain: Our Secret Past (BBC Books) with Pamela Gordon, to accompany 6 part BBC2 series of same name.

A Man's World (BBC Books 1996) with Pamela Gordon, to accompany 6 part BBC2 series of same name.

The Call of the Sea: Britain's Maritime Past (BBC Books 1997) to accompany 6 part BBC2 series of same name.

Veterans: The Last Survivors of the Great War (Pen and Sword 1998) with Richard van Emden,
to accompany BBC1 series of same name.

Far Out: The Dawning of New Age Britain (Sansom 1999) with Miriam Akhtar and Lucy Swingler,
to accompnay 3 part Channel 4 series of same name.

Green and Pleasant Land: An Oral History of the British Countryside (Channel 4 Books) with Bev Hopwood,
to accompany 6 part Channel 4 series.

Some Liked it Hot: The British on Holiday (Virgin Books 2001) with Miriam Akhtar, to accompany ITV1 series.

The Life Style Revolution of the 50s and 60s (Boxtree 2003) with Miriam Akhtar,
to accompany 3 part ITV1 series 'The Fifties and Sixties in Living Colour'.

All Quiet on the Home Front: An Oral History of Life in Britain during the First World War (Headline 2003)
with Richard van Emden, to accompany Channel 4 history documentary, Horror on the Home Front.

Hope and Glory (Sutton 2004) with Melissa Blackburn, Nick Maddocks and Clair Titley, to accompany 6 part ITV West series.

other books to accompany Testimony Films programmes

Prisoners of the Kaiser, Richard van Emden (Pen and Sword 2000), to accompany Channel 4 documentary of the same name.

Love Child, Sue Elliott, to accompany ITV1 series of same name.

The West at War, Nick Maddocks (Sutton 2005), to accompany ITV1 West series of the same name.

Boy Soldiers of the Great War, Richard van Emden (Headline 2005), to accompany Channel 4 documentary of the same name.

Children of the Doomed Voyage, Janet Menzies (Wiley 2005) to accopmany BBC2 Timewatch documentary of same name.