Baroness Perry, President of Lucy Cavendish College, helped launch the project along with, from left, Derek Hicks, of the Higher Education Funding Council for England, Michael Richardson, Director of Continuing Education at the University and James Crowden, Lord Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire.

Baroness Perry, President of Lucy Cavendish College, helped launch the project along with, from left, Derek Hicks, of the Higher Education Funding Council for England, Michael Richardson, Director of Continuing Education at the University and James Crowden, Lord Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire.

The second phase of a unique oral history project has been launched by the Board of Continuing Education at Madingley Hall.

The Fenland Oral History Project, funded by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), will be run from three project centres in Isleham, Littleport and Soham.

Dr Derek Hicks, from HEFCE, launched the programme at Madingley Hall, along with Michael Richardson, director of Continuing Education at the University, Baroness Perry, President of Lucy Cavendish College, and James Crowden, Lord Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire.

The project is designed to bring more people into university adult education. Participating groups will meet weekly and record reminiscences of life in the Fens. Students will learn how to interview each other and the end results will be recorded in a booklet which will be exhibited at the end of the year.

This latest project follows on from the first project which was carried out in Wisbech. A booklet recording the work on that project is already available.

Further information:
The Board of Continuing Education, Tel: 01954 280399.

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