Historical research consultants

Our researchers work with a wide range of organisations - helping to accurately reflect history in new productions or projects, or bring the past to life for entirely new audiences.

Media organisations

You’re welcome to make direct contact with any of our experts or contact Prof Catherine Fletcher for an initial chat.

Productions we’ve supported include:

• BBC Radio 4’s Homeschool History on Leonardo da Vinci

• BBC Sounds / Greg Jenner’s podcast You’re Dead to Me on the Borgias

• Filmmaker Mat Johns’ Peterloo descendants project for Manchester Histories

• Channel 4’s Britain’s Most Historic Towns

• BBC Radio 3’s feature on Hilltop Histories

Heritage organisations and government agencies

We regularly work with national and international partners on a wide range of heritage projects.

Organisations we’ve helped include government agencies, charities and museums.

You can contact Prof Catherine Fletcher or Dr Faye Sayer for details.

Our recent work includes:

• oral history consultancy on ‘Rooms of Our Own’ with the Pankhurst Centre

• National Heritage Lottery Fund evaluations for projects at Compton Verney Art Gallery and Park and the British Commercial Vehicle Museum

• providing advice to the Palestinian non-governmental organisation, Premiere Urgence Internationale

• heritage wellbeing consultancy for Biltmore Estate in the United States

• taking advisory roles for:

  • the National Museum Institute, India

  • the Heritage Council, Ireland

  • the government of Myanmar

  • the UK All Party Archaeological Group

  • Historic England

  • The National Trust

Community and oral history projects

We specialise in training and support for oral history projects.

Our support will be tailored to your needs and budget.

You can contact Haseeb Khan, mohammed.khan@mmu.ac.uk, for more details.

Among the things we can help with are:

• practical introductory workshops

• interview skills training

• devising, planning and developing oral history projects in a range of settings, including in schools or with hard-to-reach groups

• guidance on copyright, ethics and equipment

• support during oral history recording sessions

• putting oral history online

• evaluating projects

educational organisations

We provide consultancy and outreach sessions for schools and other educational organisations.

Organisations we support include the national Classical Association Teaching Board, for which we provide certified Continuing Professional Development for teachers of Classics and Ancient History at GCSE and A Level, and the OCR Examinations Board.

You can contact Dr April Pudsey for further details.