Threads & yarns. Christine Stammers.
- Date:
- 2011
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About this work
Also known as
Threads and yarns
Description
Martha Ruth Meyerowitz talks to Christine Stammers about her experience of healthcare from childhood until the present day. 1 segment.
Publication/Creation
London : Wellcome Trust, 2011.
Physical description
1 encoded audio file (17:51 min.) + 1 PDF transcript.
Duration
00:17:51
Copyright note
Wellcome Trust, 2011
Terms of use
Some restrictions.
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No derivatives 3.0 Unported
Language note
In English.
Notes
Interview took place on 16th May 2011
This recording is from a series of 8, which were captured by a team of interviews for the Wellcome Trust's 75th anniversary celebrations. Two day-long workshops were held at the Victoria and Albert Museum in May 2011. These were attended by seniors from the London Borough of Camden and textile design students from Central St Martins College of Art and Design. Seniors and students worked individually to create woven flowers, whilst engaging together in conversation around the themes of health and wellbeing. These intergenerational conversations were audio recorded and formed one part of the project's narrative component. Seniors were also invited to record a story or anecdote relating to their personal experiences of health and wellbeing, in shorter one to one interviews, called Threads. These took place throughout both workshops and were recorded in a separate interviewing space. They were conducted using an oral history approach, with an emphasis on active listening and self-narration. Five of these Threads have been submitted to the Wellcome Library. The three oral history interviews submitted were carried out with seniors in the weeks following the workshops. These more extended narratives, called Yarns, were recorded by the projects Oral History Lead, using a life story approach.
Contents
Interview: Christine is a retired teacher and was born in 1942. Christine talks about her childhood illnesses. She mentions a childhood treatment for a chronic sore throat which had to be applied with a brush which could cause gagging. She also talks about their family doctors; one of which had a good bedside manner and the other who was rather irascible. Her mother died very suddenly when she was 10; this turbulence affected her brother and herself deeply. She considers the difference between health provision for depression in the past and now. Time start: 00:00:00:00 Time end: 00:17:51:00 Length: 00:17:51:00